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GBA Movie Player Plays NES Games From CF Card
roadies writes "One-upping the AM3/Nintendo official GBA flash player (as previously discussed), Portagame reports that the 3rd party imported GBA Movie Player has released its second version. In a slimmer profile casing, it still plays movies and music from CF cards. (Not pre-recorded tv shows like the AM3 player either, you record and save your own content.) The best feature of the firmware update: An included NES emulater. You can download your favorite NES games to a CF card and emulate them through the player. Only catch is there is a 192K per game limit. May not be enough for the biggest NES game, but still enough for the true NES classics."
Hmmm, isn't Lik-Sang just asking to be sued by Nintendo with this update? If you want one of these new players, you'd better hurry because I just don't see how this is going to stay on the market very long. I have to admit though, I like the cool gadgets that Lik-Sang sells, but this player is definitely in a gray zone now!
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Hmmm, we'll see!
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no, not GBA games. sorry. Just NES games. I think the manufacturer is being very careful. They put a 192k limit on the games (no limit on movies and music that I know of) and only allow games from the very expired NES system. I wish they'd allow for classic GB games, but since the GBA can play most existing GB cartridges anyway, I doubt we'll see that happen.
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Did a little reading about this, and it sounds like the audio quality isn't very good. Plus, you have to convert your MP3s into another format to play them. Seems pretty useless.
Ok, what this does is load an emulator and rom into the GBA's RAM. It's not a 192k arbitary limit, but a facet of the 64kb emulator and the fact that the GBA has 256kb of RAM.
If you really want a good NES emulator you're better off just getting a flash cart for the GBA. Life's good with those.
It includes a stock version 9.95 of PocketNES, then executes it as a multiboot game. So it gets the crippled multiboot version of pocketnes, with no save features. It is also limited to emulator+game must be 256k.
The customer reviews for the product at Lik Sang, as well as the review over at ShackNews both talk about scratchy sound quality and low frame-rates. Neither talk about the emulators (since they are reviewing the earlier model, I assume) - but for the price you can't really go wrong can you ? I think this is the actual product homepage, but it isn't much more informative.
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Not much good for most of the games I'd play anyway, though maybe some Galaga or Tetris...
GBA ram size, probably. It only has 256k of RAM. Take off 196k (maximum ROM size), and you're left with 60k for the emulator, which is smaller than the high-accuracy emulators, but not much different than some of the old versions of Loopy.