Small White Bugs in my GBA Screen

noah · (This post was last modified: 07-26-2013, 12:31 AM by noah.)

I have a Gameboy Advance SP, the one with the "front-lit" screen. I bought it off of eBay a year ago. It has always had a white dot directly under the plastic screen cover (not sure if it's called that, but I know the actual screen is below it). It never moved and is I guess normal.

Today I noticed 2 more, but they moved slowly. They are just white specks, but they move. I hate them. I want them to die.

I left my Gameboy outside yesterday for an hour while I played basketball and football. Maybe they crawled in?

Anyway, I don't know what they are or how they could have possibly got there. Does anyone know what they could be and/or how to get rid of them? There are two and I really don't want them to mate and create a family inside of my Gameboy.

***Shonumi*** · 07-26-2013, 01:42 AM #2

Throw away your GBA, dump your games, get a PSP, load up a GBA emulator, and you're done Big Grin

(hack your PSP of course). You'll also be able play PSP games (there are a lot of good ones).

Aside from dismantling or destroying your GBA, I can't think of a solution. If you could create an oxygenless space (some sort of vacuum) or a space with a limited oxygen supply, you might be able to kill them that way if you left your GBA alone.

noah · 07-26-2013, 02:29 AM #3

I'm too much of a Nintendo fan to do that Smile

I might suffocate them, but then again, if they are not eating anything in there won't they starve? Or does the Gameboy have some kind of thing that bugs feed off of?

Either way I wont throw it out Smile

**ExtremeDude2** · 07-26-2013, 02:42 AM #4

I dropped my GBA in water once and it worked fine :3

**pauldacheez** · 07-26-2013, 03:19 AM #5

IMO, aside from the size, an original DS is better than the original GBA or the SP for playing GBA games on. I mean, holy fuck, I can't single-wall-walljump in Metroid: Zero Mission on any D-pad other than my original DS's.

***Shonumi*** · 07-26-2013, 03:52 AM #6

(07-26-2013, 03:19 AM)pauldacheez Wrote: I mean, holy fuck, I can't single-wall-walljump in Metroid: Zero Mission on any D-pad other than my original DS's.

You got no skills man :/

Though I do prefer my DS to my GBA (the original one, not SP or Micro), although I find myself playing many of my GBA games on my Dingoo A320 simply because of the battery life. The shoulder "buttons" are crap on that thing though, but it has X and Y buttons to substitute.

noah · 07-26-2013, 06:25 AM #7

Are you kidding me?! Aside from my Logitech F310, my GBA SP has the best d-pad ever made! It is also really comfertable. My old DS Lite that I'm trying to get back from my little brother (long story) is not at all as good for gba games!

**pauldacheez** · 07-26-2013, 07:16 AM #8

Okay, yeah, I've never extensively used an SP, but doesn't it use the same pad as the original GBA (which happens to be nearly identical to the one on the GCpad)? If so, the original DS's D-pad is still better. (And the DS Lite's is absolutely abysmal and nothing like the original DS's. I can't fucking walk down a corridor in Metroid Fusion or Zero mission without the arm cannon fucking randomly pointing diagonally twice a second.)

noah · 07-26-2013, 07:23 AM #9

The SP's d-pad is different than the GBA (original). It is flat, smooth, and barely needs a push, but clicks in nicely. You should try it out. Smile

***Shonumi*** · 07-26-2013, 07:28 AM **#10**

Yeah, the GBA Dpad is just like the GC controller's; both were made around the same time, so it isn't odd that they'd share some design aspects. Dunno about the DS lite, but the original DS was pretty good. In addition to GBA games, I had no problem using its Dpad for other games like MP:Hunter and both Kingdom Hearts games.

Have you killed those bugs yet, Noah?