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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."
Furethermore, it'd be worth it just for the MP3 playing, if it's decent quality, can read a good range of bitrates, and has a decent player interface. The GBASP w/o backloght goes for easily 12 hours on a charge and fits in my pocket. What more could I ask of an mp3 player?
how? by adding some kind of protection to the system of course. they don't have any now. make it only run signed stuff or whatever. it's a surprise they didn't do it with gba already and would really be a surprise if they didn't do it with DS.
because it's not even going to be 'backwards'(as they claim it's not successor to gba) compatible they can just whip anything they want on it.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I was completely ready to buy this until I checked out my NES ROMS folder and realized that only 1/3 of my games were under the limit. SMB 2, SMB 3, Dr. Mario, Punch Out, Castlevania 2 and 2, Megaman 3,4,5,6 - all over the limit. : (
I do own all of those cartridges, of course. I even bought SMB 2 and 3 for GBA...I just want to play my old games on the go and I still haven't seen one of http://www.famicom-plaza.com/new/pockefamithese on the market yet.
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