Mad Catz Battery Pack
System/accessory by Mad Catz
Reviewed by Adrock
Battery Life: Full-charge, 10 hours
Use with: Game Boy Color (Also with Game Boy Pocket, read below)

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Opening Snide Remarks: Mad Catz, can they be trusted? They made us the Game
Boy Camera to PC link. While it's not licensed by Nintendo... well, we'll give
this thing a try.

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Impressions: Do you like or dislike battery packs? Why? Bad experience with one?
Most problems are with charging. If you charge overnight, every night that you
play, you should never have a problem with this device. The device will eventually
no longer charge. But then, you can go buy another one. You may be skeptical,
but $15 instead of stacks and stacks of batteries, makes perfect sense. It will 
take quite a while before the device just stops charging, I'm guessing maybe near
500 charges.

The devices are purple, or the color I got was. I'm not sure if there are different
colors available. Anyways, this device goes where your batteries would usually go.
It hooks into those hooks where your battery lid goes on, and has a little wire
that heads out to the AC Adaptor port. Some battery paks plug directly into the
battery connectors but not this one... the only thing it uses the battery compartment
for is to hook and stay on the system itself. How it charges, is you plug the AC
Adaptor into a little hole on the battery pack. (It comes with both the pack and
the adaptor by the way, and you can use the AC Adaptor by itself if you like, so
you actually get two products when buying this.) Just plug the pack into the adaptor
and the adaptor into the wall and you're charging. You can even have the adaptor
hooked up to the charger and wall and play at the same time. I'm not sure if it still
charges though, I think the charge stays neutral and it's just like playing with the
AC adaptor.

Can you use this device with the Game Boy Pocket? Yes, you can. But it won't
fit in the back of your battery compartment so you will have to let it hang down
from the system. Rather tacky, but it works.

Liked: No more buying batteries for a long time. ^o^

Hated: You have to hold the GBC a little differently because of it's newly
found purple bulge hanging out of the battery compartment.

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Improve: A way to check how charged the battery pack is.

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Final Words: If you're looking for a battery pack, there's certainly nothing
wrong with this one. It's not official. But it's clear purple, and it will
match if you have the clear purple system! Even the AC Adaptor is clear purple.
Get rid of those batteries.

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Score: 90%

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