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Post #2949312
2026-02-13 00:17 UTC
@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?
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@Shonumi@mastodon.social 2026-02-13 03:09
@bbbbbr@mastodon.gamedev.place It was probably just licensing. Some videos aren't protected (e.g. the Detective Conan ones). Some media companies probably didn't want to risk potential piracy with video capture on a TV, even at 240x160. I haven't dug too deeply into the binary formats of the video files themselves, but I suspect there's a single byte or bit somewhere that flags the GB Player protection for the adapter's firmware. Change that, and you'd be good to run it on a GB Player just fine.