Topic: Gba media player

[BeyondtheGrave]

Does anybody know anything about this? like when it will be released and such?

[McBacon]

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=246&products_id=3983

Its only 25 dollars/14 pounds, I have one, I would reccomend it, but its not the best thing ever. First up, you have to compress it (a movie) to be a .gbm file, quite a pain, seeing as the software is limited. Especially since there is a slider of how big you want it, so I'd set it to 128MB, and I sometimes end up with 4 128MB files. If you have a 256/512 CF, you're laughing... and 1GB is even better!

As for other stuff, I never use the music because I have a great MP3 Player, I never use the pictures because they have to be BMP, I never use the Famicon Games because I have a GBA Flash Linker that can do the same AND saving, but I use the E-Book Reader ALL THE TIME. Console FAQs, Game Reviews, Collecting Tips, everything.

The player looks nice on a GBA SP, but oh-so-sweet on the DS.

If you get it, my advice is "Don't expect to have nice looking movies straight away, it takes time to get familiar of what settings to use for what type of video"  

[clevelandst124]

I'm mainly interested in nes games on the go.  What is the gba flash linker?  Where did you get yours from?  What's the cost?  And does it limit you to 192 kb games like the gba movie player?

[silentbob]

does that work with the DS? (the flash advance thing)

[thepoga]

ya

[silentbob]

i was reading and it said that u have to conect it to the GBA SP how am I supposed ot transfer stuff to the ds i dont have an sp or gba

[thepoga]

u only need a DS, a Compact Flash Card, and CF Card Reader/Writer. You don't transfer anything to the DS. The only transfers going on is the one to the compact flash card.  

[McBacon]

http://www.ezflash.cn/producte.asp

I have the 256MB Version, It can play ANY NES game, (except Duck Hunt and the like ), it comes with software for writing the rom, and you just choose to convert a NES rom to a GBA rom. It even has a [Select] menu, with features about saving, screen res etc. It cost around 75 pounds... check eBay and the like for it in dollars.

[RABicle]

ezflash is awesome. I have a 128MB version. I just use it to play games that aren't worth buying or get limited releases. Eg. Dodge ball Advance. But mine is old and can't do what yours does...

[McBacon]

Mine says it has an in built clock, but I've never had a game that used it, Pokémon Gold is the only game that I know of that uses the battery as a clock, any ideas?

[RABicle]

Ruby and Sapphire do too but it doens't affect anything. I think mine has clock support.

[clevelandst124]

You can save with version II correct?  Is that which one you have?  Would version III be worth.

[McBacon]

Yea, V2 has hard save whilst V3 has quick save too (like a save state on an emulator). I don't see the need for this, you can't use save states on a real GBA game, so its like cheating in a way. If this idea interests you though, get V3.  Its says it has "ROM Compression" on V3 as well, but with 1GB, you won't need it.

Basically, GBA roms come in a few sizes... 4MB, 8MB, 16MB and some which are bigger. These are the cart sizes, they are in Megabits on the website as thats what real GBA carts use, but Windows uses Megabytes.

128Mb = 16MB
256Mb = 32MB
512Mb = 64MB
1Gb = 128MB

So, if you take 8MB as the average rom size, you can fit around 2 roms on 128Mb, 4 on 256Mb etc. You can get other software that converts say an image into a tiny .gba file, so you can view it on the GBA/DS. Movies, Ebooks and Emulation of very retro systems is also featured.

HIGHLY RECCOMENDED FOR ANY GBA OWNER

[Blackknight131]

I didnt realize we could speak of piracy so freely on these forums......

[RABicle]

Shoosh.

Now that I think about it I have version 2 but save games are pretty flaky. Some games just go crazy. Sonic Advance 2 decided that I should be allowed to unlock everything from the get go.

[McBacon]

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Originally posted by: Blackknight131
I didnt realize we could speak of piracy so freely on these forums......

When I say ROMs, I mean Homebrew Games, of course!

[Blackknight131]

Ah yes, carry on then.