Game Boy Advance Movie Player Detailed

Thanks to IGN Pocket for their article on the forthcoming Japanese launch of AM3's Advance Movie player for the Game Boy Advance. According to the piece, the player will come standalone, or "...bundled with episode one of the cartoon [Detective Conan] for a total cost of 3800 yen [$33]", and some time after that, "...gamers will be able to purchase blank Smart Media cards for 1800 yen and begin downloading content from their PC, using a Smart Media writer to get the content onto the blank card", though "cost should run between 100 and 500 yen [$1-$5]" for each download. Finally, following some "impressive video sequences" seen at the Tokyo Game Show, it's confirmed that "this technology... is also being applied to actual [GBA] games, with Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories being the first example."

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Re:Quality?

[aliens]

From the article:

Apparently, the adapter cartridge doesn't have a decoding chip of any form. Using a technology called ACTIMAGINE, the Game Boy Advance's ARM7 CPU is able to handle all the decoding on its own, :-0

Amazing, I gotta see just how good this video is for myself.