GBA Freak... i'm guessing why you arn't happy with it is you've set your orignal expectations higher then what they have given... but you have to remember this is pretty damn impressive for a gameboy advance... it can't process a very big area like the pc can... the GBA has a very limited memory (under one megabyte actualy... to be specific 32 Kbyte + 96 Kbyte VRAM (in CPU), 256 Kbyte WRAM (external of CPU)) so there's no way it could work with a bigger map with more details.
There's are my only list of issues that I've found so far, and it's not regarding that lag (again it isn't that bad... jeesh again this isn't a pc... it's portable, and for what it is... it's pretty damn sweet)....
-umm... am i blind or how do i find out my city's population? or did they just forget that fact?
-only being able to see and change my city budget plan after each year.
-the stats map, why don't they draw the streets or city area when viewing crime, or schooling, or fire coverage, etc...???
-but i will admit, 1 save slot isn't much... but again who knows how big of a save file we are working with? it is an EEprom save type.
even though i don't agree with, but i do see your complaint about small city limits cause it will sure make it a challange to make it up to metropolis rating. but overall... damn i love this game.
....phil