Post #1994460
2026-02-11 19:20 UTC
The Advance Movie Adapter is a special GBA cartridge that allowed users to play videos from SmartMedia cards. It's kind of like the GBA Video Cartridges by Majesco, except it arguably has better compression and quality.
Been messing around with improving emulation for it in GBE+ recently. Fun fact, some of the videos are protected from playing on the GB Player for the GameCube (mostly Pokemon videos as far as I know). They have this custom error screen if it detects the GB Player.
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@Shonumi@mastodon.social 2026-02-11 19:24
Another fun fact is that the Advance Movie Adapter automatically reads files from a FAT-12 (and supposedly FAT-16) filesystem. While files can become fragmented, the adapter automatically handles all of this, so the GBA can just read a continuous block of memory from the device. Last week I finally implemented a proper way of reading FAT entries from SmartMedia disc images in GBE+, so file fragmentation is no longer an issue for emulation.
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@bbbbbr@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-13 00:17
@Shonumi@mastodon.social Very cool work! Are the videos prevented from playing due to a technical limitation, some kind of non-tv screen licensing thing, or something else?