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[SirPoonga]

http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/05/09/1242214.shtml?tid=127&tid=186&tid=207

I don't know how well this would work for geocaching though...

Techie talk here: It has an API so you can create your own games for it. AWESOME! It's like a Geko, but better!!

[Marsha and Silent Bob]

[SirPoonga]

that's my point. 1) it is expensive + $90 for the GBA 2) the GBA is rugged enough for a child to drop it over and over, BUT I don't think it is weatherproof or something you want to drop int he mud while caching.
However "Pre-Order and Save! Regularly $249 US, now $199 US. Limited time only"

I looked through all the features, it does have some pretty nifty stuff.

The GBA is just a super nintendo, not much power there. but you don't need that much for GPS.

I could see it being cool because it keeps the kids happy until you get to the cache site

I want a GBA SP. It's mainly a SNES (same procs almost), many SNES games have been released for it. Also I have tried the new Metroid which is great! (Oh, I was going to school for Game Programming at the Minnesota School of Business until I had to move back to WI recently and am a kid at heart!)

I also wonder if an external antanna can be attached, because where the unit is located on an SP is where your palms normally are. On a regular GBA it would be on top.


I wonder how much making something like that, but for a PDA would cost. I saw a Garmin GPS 15 go recently on ebay for $40. That's a small GPs unit that is about hte size of a commemerative stamp. It has simple serial output and antenna hookup. Could easily wire to the serial input on a PDA. Then it is a matter of having software that can use it's output.

[rickrich]

If you want a cheap PDA with the ability to play games and also be a GPS, Its hard to beat buying a used Handspring Visor model with a springboard slot for $35 or so from EBAY, and then buying a surplus Magellan GPS Companion for the Visor for $40-$60 from one of the overstock places like consumerdepot.com. I put together this combination for $75 (with shipping) last fall to replace one just like it that I left behind at a cache. If you want maps, you can buy the Mapopolis software for $45, which runs on the Visor and works with the GPS Comapnion.

So for about $125, you can put together a handheld that is roughly equivalent. But no Pokemon.

[KC0GRN]

Actually on the handsping visor, you could probably get a Gameboy emulator, that way you could have pokemon too, that is, if you really want to play pokemon.....

[SirPoonga]

I have a visor, unfortunately somethings wrong, it eats batteries in a day, even when turned off.

[Marsha and Silent Bob]

The off-topic discussion of Arcade/Emulation has been split off and moved here.
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Sad state of affairs.

[SirPoonga]

Good call.

Ok, back to topic If you had this do you think you could get the kids away form playing games to use it?