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I like it, it's nifty.

>>12408127
As a kid I thought it was a pointless downgrade, but now I've got one and I freaking love it. It's actually a portable handheld. My battery is fucked though. Won't hold a charge.

>>12408127
An elegant handheld, for a more civilized age.

A very nifty little device, especially for the time, but genuinely just too fucking small to comfortably play games on. I got one on release and very quickly returned to playing GBA carts on my phat DS instead. Ultimately I'm not really sure who it was for. By that point, every kid already had a GBA, and if they were gonna ask for a new system it was gonna be a DS instead. It was too expensive, impractical and poorly timed to be an impulse novelty buy.

I can't imagine actually playing through Zero Mission or Fire Emblem on that cramped little bastard, but I could see it being ideal for short bursts of puzzle games like Puzzle League, Mr Driller or Puyo Puyo.

i love this fucking thing. friend of mine borrowed mine like 10 years ago and i never got it back. been thinking about buying one again.
mine was the FC edition though which is the most expensive now ;_;

>>12408127
Perfect size for the ass

bought one, used it once, and now it sits in the box while i use my sp instead
i'm convinced people only care about these because they think they're rare, they suck to actually use

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>>12408218
>Ultimately I'm not really sure who it was for
Japanese children, rather than obese 40-year-old manchildren. It was only given a half-hearted token launch in the West to cash in on the hardcore tendies who'll buy anything. They didn't even bother releasing faceplates for it in Europe and there were only three available from Nintendo's online store in the US. Meanwhile, Japan got a bunch of cool ones.

>>12408363
There was a big trend at the time of making everything as small as physically possible and Nintendo jumped in on the trend.

It just isn't very much fun to use. The ergonomics are bad and the screen is tiny.

>>12408127
Can’t find good third party faceplates

>>12408127
easily my favorite gb model by far. my original one from back in the day got stolen and to this day Im super mad about it. would gladly buy another one but theres just no point when I have chinkhelds that can do so much more already.

>>12408127
the platonic ideal of a handheld. I wish there was a chinkheld with the sleek and minimalist design of this but even the ones that are clearly copying the micro just completely fuck it up

>>12408127
There was a gba mp3 player cartridge (with its own audio jack because the gba sound was garbage) and it fit in there perfect and made a nice little mp3 player for going to school.

>>12408127
Too small.

>>12408490
bump for advice on this

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>>12408127
I remember as a kid thinking it was extremely cool for using lowercase "a" and "b" on the buttons. The limited Famicom edition was a big item on my dream wishlist. This thing looked great.

I loved it. Great for popping out and playing rpgs on. Had the famicom model, wish i had imported the mother 3 one but couldn't justify two of the same model system at the time. Tripped on some fucked up concrete once when it was in my pocket and it left a scratch on the outter screen and a chip on the system itself. Pissed me off so much that i couldn't even look at it anymore out of rage so it's sat in a drawer ever since. Took that lil nig with me everywhere.

>>12408127
micro benis XD

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>>12408127
>What do you think of the Game Boy Micro?
It's a cutie patootie but I sold mine in 2023 because it's bigger brother is cheaper and has a bigger screen. (It also shares batteries and chargers with the GBA SP instead of having proprietary stuff like the Micro.)

>>12408127
Cool but junky, the screen scratches to hell in one day

>>12408127
These were really cool I bought one as soon as it came out. They were the first handheld that you could really stick in your pocket. Was awesome for playing on the train commuting to work and back.

It's a great little device, the screen is super crisp, making it deceptively easy to see and even read on. Back in the day i had mine in its included lanyard everywhere i went. Played a lot of swordcraft story on my lunch break at work.

>>12409227
the original DS Lite is the ultimate Nintendo handheld, since it had a cartridge slot for the GBA games, too.

>>12408410
This. Its neat, but actually playing on it is ass. SP still the best to actually play, but its a cool novelty.

comfy as a mofo breh

Anyone know if the Micro has the better headphone sound since it has a jack and doesn't need an adapter like the SP?

>>12409909
Agreed. It's sleek and the battery lasts for years. I hadn't charged one of mine for a few years and it still booted up and I played it for a few hours, then turned it off. I'll see if it still has a charge next year.

>>12410084
Mp3 player anon here.


No I remember running tests like 'that's weird why did they have a separate headphone jack in this mp3 player cartridge' and I plugged into the micro and it sounded awful. I think it sounded bad on my SP too

>>12408218
Yeah, as a teen I thought it just seemed like a total waste. Why buy a micro[penis] version of a console I already had? I kinda want one now just for the novelty, but outside of said novelty, I don't imagine it would replace my original GBA, and I'd rather get an SP 101 that I'd actually use before a system that I'd mess around with for an hour before setting it aside with all my other redundant handhelds that I turn on once in a blue moon for the novelty.

>>12408385
and that why you born with tiny pp too

>>12408385
Tiny stuff will always have a niche while big ones just get replaced when the new bigger better flashier ones come out.

>>12409909
Except the carts don't sit flush and sticks out the bottom and everyone uses flash carts anyway.

>>12408127
Very little.

>>12408151
Replace it?

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>>12408127
Pointless when the GBA SP is already the pinnacle form factor for handheld gaming. It literally does not and cannot get better than this form factor.

>>12408127
Pretty neat that it exists simply due to the fact that it led to Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and Disney Channel showing a mouse humping one during commercial breaks

>>12413760
Typed by a man with tiny childlike hands.

>>12408127
>What do you think of the Game Boy Micro?
I don't the only two handhelds worth a shit are the PSP 1000 and the DS

>>12414002
Why specifically the 1000?

>>12414052
Because this is /vr/ and we have to pretend the original version is the best no matter what

>>12408127
I know a guy who got it day 1 and immediately regretted it

>>12414125
I guess it isn't unusual for later revisions to make compromises or have faults (the original MD/Genesis has better sound plus stereo, later SNES revisions had worse video quality until the Jr which has its own issues, the AV Famicom has fucked up expansion audio levels though to be fair the very early versions of the Famicom had bugs and shitty controller buttons), but I'm unaware of the very first PSP model specifically being better than later revisions (outside of the PSP GO, which is digital only, and therefore technically impossible to use without piracy or dumping your own games from different hardware)

>>12408127
I was disappointed that it wasn't compatible with the standard GBA link cables. I like it otherwise.

Too expensive sadly. Wish I got one back in the 00s

When I worked a shitty call center job as a teenager, I used to play my micro at my desk all day and my hands were big enough that I could just palm it on my desk if anyone walked by. Good times.

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>>12408127
Too small to be comfortable to play.

>>12408127
We made fun of the kid who had one because it was baby sized.

>>12413910
Or maybe a woman... ha ha... ha...

>>12416973
BASED I did the same.

>>12413760
>>12413910

It's perfect for bigger hands since you can access every button with one hand. convienent when im grinding mon while doing something else

>>12414143
>the PSP GO, which is digital only, and therefore technically impossible to use without piracy
That isn't true. You can still access PSN and your purchased games on a PSP. You can't actually buy anything on one any more due to increases in security, but you can purchase games on your PS3 or Vita and then download them from your past purchases list on your PSP.

>>12418893
That speaks more about your own insecurities.
Microchads don't have to compensate.

It's alright, but tiny for my giant hands

I love to dominate it in my massive hands

>>12409909
Was genuinely upset that original GB didn't work even though GB works on actual GBA hardware. What gives?

>>12423235
>All actual GBA hardware except the Micro

Anyway, GB/GBC compatibility with older GBA models was achieved by basically grafting the GBC’s system on a chip to the rest of the hardware. I’m guessing adding those components would’ve made the DS larger/more costly than they would’ve liked.