Need Help - Nintendo SP

[Bencherstyle]

since i was going to get DSI ( god damn dsiware)

i was in the market for a SP. (or Micro if i can find it)

when i was about to buy a SP for 24.99 at EBgames, my friend told me that there is two types of SPs! i was suprized as heck!

he told me the first SP had a frontlit light which was not as bright as the second one which has the backlit. (the difference is like... huge i heard)

so which SPs are backlit and which are front? i want to get the backlit one but there are so many colours out ther....

 

[Rocky071]

Backlit SP's mainly came in Graphite, Pearl Blue, Tribal Silver, and Pearl Pink. If it's not one of those colors, it's a front-lit SP (which actually aren't that bad at all, from what I remember, but then again I might remember better than it is).

Anyway the other key is the serial number on the GBA itself, AGS-101 indicates newer SP's while AGS-001 was for the older ones.

Lastly, if you press the light button on the GBA, it will turn the light on/off on SP1, but cycle through different brightness settings on SP2. Some (IGN) have said that the brighter screen makes colors a little too bright, particularly warmer colors. I think it's a personal preference as to which is better.

Sources:http://www.digitpress.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-98204.html
http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/652/652641p1.html