MadCatz Roll Cage for GBA
Laptop Battery The GBA Roll Cage is a product produced by Mad Catz for use on the Game Boy Advance. The device is said to be a solution for those who are getting their GBA scratched and beat up constantly.
Value
The Roll Cage retails for approximately 5-10 dollars (US) and can be purchased in other packages as well. The product attaches around the mid section of the Game Boy Advance. Once attached the GBA is supposedly wearing its own set of armor and becomes an invincible gaming machine. If only that were true. The Roll Cage is a useless waste of natural resources.
Style and Comfort
The Roll Cage can only be bought in one color (as far as I know), which is purple. I doubt any additional colors will become available. The device is very bland looking and does not make your GBA look stylish at all.
The Roll Cage is basically two pieces of rubber complete with two metal bars that vertically extend over the right and left sides of the GBA screen. The rubber sections are molded to fit the GBA rather well but the Roll Cage is very difficult to attach to the GBA at first.
Once you finally get the Roll Cage to fit into place the two rubber ends are fastened together via a rubber button and hole. The device covers (just about) the entire middle back of the GBA but fails to cover the sides at all. Once attached the device makes removing game paks, linking the GBA up to your GCN, and attaching cables for multiplayer very frustrating or impossible. Removing batteries is also impossible when the Roll Cage is on your GBA.
It still baffles me how someone could think that this device protects the GBA in any way at all. The metal bars do not protect the screen at all and can only protect the GBA from something large that couldn't have damaged it that much anyway (it doesn't protect the screen from getting scratched in the least bit. Since the sides aren't covered at all you have to hope that if the GBA is dropped it hits the ground horizontally (this hardly ever happens). Even if it hits horizontally the GBA will most likely bounce and hit on its side.
If you were hoping it would be comfortable you can start holding your breath now. The Roll Cage actually gets your way and makes it more difficult to push some of the GBA's buttons. The metal bars are just high enough to produce great little shadows that obscure parts of the screen. The product makes playing the GBA anything but fun. In fact the rubber backing actually leaves an uncomfortable area for you
Endurance
The Roll Cage is a mixed bag as far as endurance goes. The metal bars are sturdy and firm. However, the rubber section seems to stretch out after many rounds of taking the device on and off the Game Boy Advance. I am not sure if it will become a major issue but if it stretches a little to far it won't even stay on the GBA correctly. This product isn't the best...
Overall
If you want something to protect your GBA look elsewhere because the Roll Cage does a pathetic job of it. The chances of it actually saving your GBA are slim to none. Since protecting your GBA is the only thing that this product is supposed to do I am advising everyone to steer clear of the Roll Cage. The only purpose the Roll Cage serves is to give one a good headache.
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