Hi, Two things to ask today. Firstly, I have a JP Silver Wavebird that I bought brand new, and it likes to play silly buggers. Occasionally the movement will 'stick', and your character in game will either not respond, will continue moving when you are not holding, or behave erratically for a couple of seconds. I thought it may be wifi interference but it does not seem to have an effect, and I have tried different channels. Also tried better quality batteries. Any ideas? I also have a well used GBASP I got from eBay just for Four Swords. I've started using it more now I am playing original Game Boy games ( I want to see what I am doing . After about 2 hours of play the battery indicator goes red. Fine, battery is knackered thinks I. I play through the red light with intention to kill it and 'calibrate' it. It went green again. And seemed to last ages afterwards. I even left it overnight to die. Charged again, still goes red after about two hours. Going to leave it on to empty it again and charge once more. It is annoying, I don't want to play a game on red light, then have it die when I am saving etc. Is the battery knackered or can I keep filling it/emptying it to restore good capacity estimates to it? Thanks in advance people.
Depending on when your Wavebird was manufactured it could use 900MHz or 2.4GHz. If it's a later model and 2.4GHz, and you live in a block of flats or relatively close to your neighbours, it could be someone using a microwave, cordless phone, all sorts of things :|
That GBA battery is dead. At some point, you'll just need to play always plugged in to the wall, and then maybe the system won't turn on, even when plugged in. Or maybe you can just change it if you can find the part? Did you try every available channel on the Wavebird? A friend's controllers had issues when someone was using a cordless phone in his house, and sometimes changing the channels on the controllers would stop that from happening.
Yeah, the SP is pretty scuffed up from some obviously extended and off-road play sessions. There are plenty of batteries on eBay (Search SP battery Game boy). Can anyone vouch for these being any good? I haven't tried it on EVERY channel, no. Maybe I'll have to do just that. But it is intermittant, sometimes it'll be fine for hours! We have Wifi and a cordless phone. Our phone doesn't seem to interfere. and we are in range of about 6 other wifi networks (so says Windows, probably more..).. but then, Xbox controllers have never ever done this and they use the same range, right?
Left my SP on from about.. 2pm, it was still going when I went to bed at around 10.30! I think I'll wait until its totally knackered before I worry. =)
I've heard sometimes when the charge length gets low that if you do try charging it up and draining it completely and cycle that a few times it might get better again. But eventually the batteries do wear out. The cheap batteries I'm not sure about. They may work fine, and are alot less than the official replacement. But atleast with the official battery there is more of assurance that it will work properly.
I have a silver Wavebird and I've never had any problems with it. Probably one of my all-time favorite controllers.
