Post #2949313
2026-02-13 03:09 UTC
@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.
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@bbbbbr@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-14 06:58
@Shonumi@mastodon.social Thanks! That does seem likely.