Description Of Components; Installing Batteries; About Game Boy Advance Game Paks - Nintendo GAME BOY Série Mode D'emploi

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Description of Components

1. External Extension Connector (EXT.) – This unit allows connection to any Game Boy and
to Game Boy Series accessories.
2. Accessory Fixation Slots – For connecting Game Boy Advance dedicated accessories.
3. Game Pak Slot – This easily accessible slot is designed for loading a Game Boy Game Pak.
4. Power Indicator LED (POWER) – This tiny bulb lights green when the Game Boy Advance
is ON. For Alkaline batteries, the green light will change to red as the battery power reduces
to 20 or 30 % and the LED will begin to fade when it is time to replace the batteries.
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5. – 11. Operation Buttons (START, SELECT, ✚ Control Pad, A Button, B Button, L Button,
R Button) – Used as the controls for playing games. See individual Game Pak instruction
booklets for specific button functions.
12. Speaker – Outputs mono sound. Will automatically turn off when headphones are plugged
into Headphone Jack.
13. Wrist Strap Attachment – For attachment of a wrist strap.
14. Colour LCD Screen – Highly reflective 2.9 inch Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) Colour Liquid
Crystal Display with up to 32,000 colours.
15. Power Switch (OFF/ON) – Slide the switch to turn the power ON or OFF.
(NOTE: Always insert a Game Pak before turning power ON.)
16. Headphone Jack (PHONES) – For connecting a pair of stereo headphones.
17. Volume Dial (VOLUME) – Adjusts the volume right or left. Rotate to the right to increase
the volume or to the left to decrease.
18. Battery Cover – Remove the cover on the back of the Game Boy Advance and insert two
AA (LR 6) batteries. Game Boy Advance AC-DC Adapter Set can also be used.
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Installing Batteries

Remove the cover on the back of the Game Boy Advance and insert two AA (LR 6) batteries as
shown. Always use two fresh, high quality alkaline batteries. Do not use rechargeable nickel
cadmium (NiCad), nickel metal hydride (NiMH), carbon zinc or any other type of
non-alkaline batteries.
Caution: When inserting the batteries, make sure that the
positive (+) and negative (–) ends are facing in the correct
directions. (See Illustration 1.) Always insert the negative end
first. When removing batteries, remove the positive end
first.
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Illustration 1
NOTE: When the battery life is down to between 20 % and 30 %, the Power Indicator LED
will change colour from green to red. When the LED begins to grow dim, the battery life is
almost gone. If you are playing a game with a battery back-up, you should save your pro-
gress and replace the batteries as soon as possible.
• Non-rechargeable batteries are not to be recharged.
• Different types of batteries or new and used batteries are not to be mixed.
• Exhausted batteries are to be removed from the toy.
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About Game Boy Advance Game Paks

There are four types of Game Boy Game Paks that will work with the Game Boy Advance:
Type 1. Original Game Boy Game Paks, which will work with both the Game Boy Advance
and Game Boy Color units (using 4 – 10 colours, see Section 8) and with the original
Game Boy and Game Boy pocket systems (using 4 shades of gray).
Type 2. Dual mode Game Boy Game Paks that will work with both the Game Boy Advance
and Game Boy Color (using up to 56 colours out of a palette of 32,000) and with the
original Game Boy and Game Boy pocket systems (using 4 shades of gray).
Type 3. Full colour games (using up to 56 colors out of a palette of 32,000) that will work
only on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance.
Type 4. Special full colour (32,000 colours maximum) wide screen games that will work only
on the Game Boy Advance.
A few older Game Boy games may not function
properly on the Game Boy Advance causing display
or sound problems. Game Boy Color games may
appear darker due to Game Boy Advance screen
specification.
NOTE: You can switch the screen size for Type 1, 2
Game screen size Game screen size for
and 3 games to wide screen mode by pressing the
for Type 1, 2 and 3 Type 4 games only
L and R buttons. (This may make some of the images
games
distorted or hard to see.)
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