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GBA Movie Player Plays NES Games From CF Card

Posted by timothy on from the simpsons-fix dept.

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."

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  1. Opening the software by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems to me so many companies could get market control just by opening their software a little bit.

    Some of the integrations of this stuff are so simple that online programmers can do them by themselves and they add tonnes and tonnes of value.

    Big software just isn't listening someone needs to smack these guys around again, I sense another internet bubble around underused tech like voip, wiMax, voice integration, and free telephony.

  2. Clarification by David+E.+Smith · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had one of these devices for a while. Not a bad little toy. I'd love to be able to just put MP3s on the flash card and go, instead of having to convert them to "GBS" (Game Boy Sound?) format, but the GBA doesn't have that much CPU.

    The article text is a bit misleading. You don't have to have one of the new, slimmer Movie Advance units to use the NES emulator feature - just update the firmware on the old one and it'll work just fine.