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Listen To Your Game Boy Advance

Posted by timothy on from the uncumbrance dept.

filmsmith writes "It looks like Nintendo may be interested in using the GBA to enter the PDA market and even considering itself competition for the Apple iPod. It smells of DMCA pandering, though. 'It looks like protection will be in place to ensure that even content recorded by users (through the use of a special adapter) will not be able to be shared with other users.' Planet Gamecube has the article here."

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  1. A Few Concerns by GweeDo · · Score: 5, Informative

    My concerns are with the quality. The first is with the Audio...the DSP that is built into the GBA isn't going to be playing my favorite bands in any form of high quality. My second concern with with video. 240x160x16bit color basically can't be done in full motion on the GBA (just can't make enough memory writes before VBLANK ends). 240x160x8bit is though...but who wants to watch 256 color vides?

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  2. Why doesn't /. by jsse · · Score: 4, Informative

    link to the original article directly? Planet Gamecube's just point to that link with rubblish abstract.

  3. Here is a better Link with Pictures by doctor_no · · Score: 5, Informative

    It seems like more a portable video player than an Ipod.

    Here is the link
    http://mb.vgdirectory.com/game020403d.htm

    "AM3 announced they will release a Smart Media Adaptor for GameBoy Advance and GameBoy Advance SP in October, which allows you to download multimedia contents and play on the GameBoy Advance. The AM3 Smart Media Adaptor will retail for 2800 yen, and the AM3 32M Smart Media Cards will retail for 2000 yen each. Downloadable contents such as e-Books, animated cartoon will retail between 200 - 500 yen each. AM3 is also planning to install kiosk terminals in convenient stores for customers to purchase contents."