stupid GBA question

[Gollum]

This might sound like a stupid question, but my handheld knowledge is fairly limited. Are there region locks for GBA modules similar to the ones for home consoles? My girlfriend has a european GBA, could we buy a game while on vacation in the states and play it, or will it refuse to run?

 

[loekf2]

This might sound like a stupid question, but my handheld knowledge is fairly limited. Are there region locks for GBA modules similar to the ones for home consoles? My girlfriend has a european GBA, could we buy a game while on vacation in the states and play it, or will it refuse to run?

Should work. I'm in the Netherlands and bought once a few games "off the market" in Hong Kong (= no clue if it was legal, but the prices were very low). Worked ok for me.

From what I know about the GBA's architecture, there's no region protection.

 

[Gollum]

Cool, thanks!

 

[see colon]

the gameboy remains one of the few systems with no region lockout. actualy, no cart based nintendo systems have any true region encoding, just differant physical cart size/shape. the gameboy doesn't even have that limitation.
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[mech]

the gameboy remains one of the few systems with no region lockout. actualy, no cart based nintendo systems have any true region encoding, just differant physical cart size/shape. the gameboy doesn't even have that limitation.
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That's not true. The NES and SNES both had region encoding. I know this because I had NES and SNES carts from overseas that fit in the console fine, but needed a converter to run properly.

 

[Farid]

That's not true. The NES and SNES both had region encoding. I know this because I had NES and SNES carts from overseas that fit in the console fine, but needed a converter to run properly.

True, European Snes carts and Japaneses Carts were identical... But you needed a converter to make them work.