Game Boy Advance Video

[StoneKnightMan]

when the Game Boy Advance was released, nintendo saw that the GBA had the potential to play cartoon episodes, so they created this idea, Game Boy Advance Video

a GBA cartridge that has two episodes from a cartoon, playing on your game boy advance.

cartoons like:
ed edd n eddy
pokemon
sonic x
spongebob squarepants
fairly oddparents
kim possible

the lists goes on.

they even took it to a whole new level, they even putted ACTUAL FULL MOVIES that can be played.

those were shrek 1 and 2. and shark tale

there was one disadvantage about this. it cannot be played on a game boy player, because they didnt want people to record the footage and upload it to youtube. that would be copyright.

the game boy advance video was praised greatly but was criticized for its 32-bit rendering of the media being played on it. but it was still great.

the game boy advance video started attracting other portable media players to rival it like the VideoNow and the JuiceBox. but game boy advance video always stood on top.

it started from may 2004 and ended sometime around 2007.

 

[Nien Nunb]

I have one of the old Pokemon episodes, the one about the pay2win cuck who pulled a bunch of new Pokemon out of his ass.

I'm sure they've been dumped somewhere, but I've always wanted to get my hands on a rom for them. There's a novelty to watching low-res Shrek.

 

[DumbDosh]

It was the precursor to UMD movies which were way more popular than they had any right to be.

I remember them not being that expensive either, I think I only got one that was like 2 episodes of Dragonball GT

 

[InLivingTuna]

 

[Jaiman]

I prefer the VideoNow Color.

 

[The Great Citracett]

I remember seeing these when they came out and couldn't imagine the type of person who would buy such a thing.

I guess these are how Chris-chan passed time at the mall in between pestering girls with his attraction sign.

I never knew they managed to fit entire movies on the things though. Every time I see them they're only like $1. Maybe I'll have to grab some as a weird novelty.

 

[Coster]

Even when the GBA was still new I thought these things were weird. I had a friend who owned a bunch of them, I personally was too caught up in Link to the Past, Pokemon Crystal, and Megaman Battle Network to care about watching cartoons/movies on my GBA.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

I never knew they managed to fit entire movies on the things though. Every time I see them they're only like $1. Maybe I'll have to grab some as a weird novelty.

I found an article about dumping those cartridges: https://mgba.io/2015/10/20/dumping-the-undumped/

It was a 64 MB ROM chip with a weird mapper, so it's only 2 times bigger than an average N64 game, but with extra 8 years of storage technology improvement in the meantime, so it could fit a tiny GBA cartridge case.

Due to using mappers, emulators would require extra code to support those cartridges and at the moment when that article was written none had it. Maybe nowadays they work. I'd give it a try, but a quick search for ROMs gave no results and I can't be bothered to google more.

 

[XYZpdq]

I remember getting roms of videos to put on your flash cart for the gba. Like that was how I watched Good Times With Weapons for the first time.

 

[SomethingWittyandBadass]

I remembered those videos, they were pretty fucking shitty. Can't believe Sonic X was on there, however.

 

[LikeicareKF]

They even took it to a whole new level, they even putted ACTUAL FULL MOVIES that can be played.

those were shrek 1 and 2. and shark tale



it started from may 2004 and ended sometime around 2007.

Lol yall know that in 2004 bittorrent accounted for 25% of all worldwide internet traffic

 

[Lackadaisy]

I prefer the VideoNow Color.

It was the Pinot Gris of the early 00s video players, my friend.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I remember the Juice Box

 

[Gordon Cole]

 

[ASoulMan]

I had a friend who owned a Spongebob cartridge and I thought it was meh.

Somebody was on some sort of drug to come up with something like this.

 

[sasazuka]

On a tangent, did anyone here ever try the Pelican TV Tuner for the GameBoy Advance?

I had a proper pocket television with a backlit screen so I had no need to watch TV on a GBA but I could imagine it being useful if you didn't have a pocket TV and you wanted to watch TV on the go. I'm not sure if it worked with the GBA-SP... it was designed around the width of the standard GBA so it would look kind of like your SP had spouted wings, at least.

It goes without saying that the Pelican TV Tuner is useless in the digital TV era. I mean, theoretically, you could plug in one of those digital converter boxes for analogue televisions to watch current TV signals but I don't think anyone makes converter boxes that are battery-powered.

 

[P.A]

On a tangent, did anyone here ever try the Pelican TV Tuner for the GameBoy Advance?

I had a proper pocket television with a backlit screen so I had no need to watch TV on a GBA but I could imagine it being useful if you didn't have a pocket TV and you wanted to watch TV on the go. I'm not sure if it worked with the GBA-SP... it was designed around the width of the standard GBA so it would look kind of like your SP had spouted wings, at least.

It goes without saying that the Pelican TV Tuner is useless in the digital TV era. I mean, theoretically, you could plug in one of those digital converter boxes for analogue televisions to watch current TV signals but I don't think anyone makes converter boxes that are battery-powered.

Watching TV on a GameBoy Advance in this day and age seems a bit silly, anyway.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

I really enjoyed my copy of “Pussy Beat 3” on mine, 2 had a better story but I could only watch that on my Game Gear.

 

[Corsola]

When I was younger my mom found a Fairly Odd Parents GBA Video cartridge laying in the grocery store parking lot and gave it to me.