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[Uzumaki]

I was helping my Mom clean her van out and I found my GBA-SP that I had misplaced back in May. It was on and it was paused in the middle of a game, not at title screen like when the switch was just turned on.

That was back in May, did my SP somehow kept waiting nonstop and without external power for 3 months? Or did some alien come in at night and turned it on? Because if it really did sleep for 3 months, that'd have to be a personal record

[raskar42]

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Game Boy Advance SP wgah'nagl fhtagn

[Mord]

raskar42, on Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:01 PM, said:

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Game Boy Advance SP wgah'nagl fhtagn

What he said.

[Itchy Koala]

raskar42, on Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:01 PM, said:

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Game Boy Advance SP wgah'nagl fhtagn

This.

[Classic Pac]

I am certainly amazed.

[Tr3vor]

GBA SP's dont have a sleep mode.

[Reaperman]

Tr3vor, on Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:50 PM, said:

GBA SP's dont have a sleep mode.

I thought so too, but it turns out that a lot of games do though. Perhaps it became part of their standard at some point in GBA's life. Generally it's L+R+Select to activate it.

But 3 months? I think that qualifies as a second degree miracle.

Edited by Reaperman, Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:58 PM.

[SRGilbert]

Maybe it traveled through time.....................

[zombiecraig]

raskar42, on Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:01 PM, said:

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Game Boy Advance SP wgah'nagl fhtagn

Lovecraft would be proud. Maybe.

[Uzumaki]

So that leaves an alien prankster pulling one on me by turning it on and then putting it to sleep the day before I found it.

[disjaukifa]

"Where's my gameboy doc!"

"Not where Marty!! When! I just sent your gameboy 3 months into the future!!!"

[thegamezmaster]

GREAT SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Reaperman]

thegamezmaster, on Sun Sep 4, 2011 8:54 PM, said:

GREAT SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

No! Mediocre Scott, God damnit!
(virgins, throw your toilet paper now)

Edited by Reaperman, Sun Sep 4, 2011 11:11 PM.

[disjaukifa]

Reaperman, on Sun Sep 4, 2011 11:07 PM, said:

thegamezmaster, on Sun Sep 4, 2011 8:54 PM, said:

GREAT SCOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

No! Mediocre Scott, God damnit!
(virgins, throw your toilet paper now)

He gave her all she had . . . and she lasted!!!!

[per]

Many CPUs have halt functions which are usually used by programs in order to save power when nothing happens. Many devices, like TI graphing calculators, don't even turn off when you push the "off" button, but they turn off the screen and goes to halt. For any of these devices, pressing the on/resume button will invoke a hardware interrupt to the CPU, in which case it will be kicked out of halt mode.

The benefits of this is that the CPU just waits, and therefore uses just enough power to keep the internal registers and logic active. There is no activity on the bus or in the execution unit of the CPU which is about equalent of reducing the clock speed to zero.

Edited by per, Mon Sep 5, 2011 2:54 AM.

[Video]

That sounds cool, but I don't think the SP even "knows" if it's closed. The DS does it with magnetic switches that sense when the system is closed. At least, I seem to recall using my SP as a music player way back when because you could close it and shove it in a pocket while running.

[TheGameCollector]

Do you remember what game was in the system? That will probably determine it.

[Uzumaki]

TheGameCollector, on Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:38 PM, said:

Do you remember what game was in the system? That will probably determine it.

Final Fantasy 6

[TheGameCollector]

Uzumaki, on Tue Sep 6, 2011 11:26 PM, said:

TheGameCollector, on Tue Sep 6, 2011 4:38 PM, said:

Do you remember what game was in the system? That will probably determine it.

Final Fantasy 6

Yeah that could easily be a game that had automatic sleep mode added to it as it was near the end of the GBA's life

[Eltigro]

What does your mom's van look like?

[Uzumaki]

Eltigro, on Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:59 PM, said:

What does your mom's van look like?

On the outside? A grey 2003 Venture. On the inside? a fully loaded garbage truck just before it makes a stop at a landfill.