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Comics To Be Distributed On GBA Flashcarts In Japan

Posted by simoniker on from the black-and-white-and-read-all-over dept.

Thanks to 1UP for its article discussing plans to distribute comic strips via Game Boy Advance flash RAM cartridges in Japan. The cart will be released in August by the same company (Toshiba/AM3) as the previously mentioned Advance Movie Player system, and both will share a distribution scheme "...similar to Nintendo's own vending-machine distribution of 16-bit Super Famicom games. Consumers would buy blank cartridges separately and download content into them at kiosk terminals, placed at game stores and other locations, and then view that content on their GBAs."

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  1. I like the idea, the GBA is underutilized by curtisk · · Score: 3, Informative
    ..but the flash cart pricing will play a major factor here.The famicom disk system media was lil' floppy disks that weren't all that expensive

    Note: It was the famicom(NES) that had disk games in vending machines, not Super Famicom(SNES) the only SFC disk "systems" were unlicensed add-ons that allowed game copying, backups and pirating

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  2. Re:Cost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    A better comparison would be the likes of Weekly Jump, which costs about 250 Yen ($2.30) for 500 pages. It contains one chapter of maybe 20 different series, and has a much bigger circulation than the compilation comic books you speak of. Most comics release a chapter every week in one of the big "phonebook mangas" like Jump, and then sell the compilation books of (maybe) 8 chapters that have already been released in the weekly magazines.