Yup, for once an actual relevant non-piracy ROM related topic on a message board. Has there yet been confirmed attempts to dump these movies (not like the normal 32MB cartoon episodes which I believe are all dumped)? I'm not aware of anybody bothering let alone failure. With their obscurity, limited print run, tiny selection available, the poor video quality, etc, sure not many people would care either way. I don't own them or a copier to try with. Still it's obvious they'd have used some bank switch technique to exceed the usual max size for GBA games. Most of course contained one film. At least two releases (Shrek / Shrek 2 and Shrek / Shark Tale) pushed it even further by containing 2 on a single cartridge.
Which device was this? There where a few different types floating around. I still remember the M29?) Video ones released in japan.
Well I don't think 'device' is quite the right word for these. They were full movies released on legit Nintendo approved GBA carts. Videos are easy to tell apart from games. Used white shells instead of the standard dark gray.
Do you have any pictures? I'm just wondering because back in that age there was many different systems that started to come out. I use to work for the studio who made the Cartoon carts for Majesco. One studio in japan (who I believe made the video codec used in DS software) release a special cart in japan that had movie stored on small flash media for playback. I think it was M2 or something like that. I also think this tech was also brought to the States but embedded into a cart (so no changeable media).
Yeah they're Majesco ones. Not easy to find pictures of the carts unlike the cover art. I happened upon a cart pic.
sorry. I keep getting the company wrong. It's not M3 its am3. http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-1e-49-en-70-2uh.html http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-1e-49-en-70-2ug.html
Hmm... I guess we won't know until we get a good look at the inside of one. Not familiar with that am3 adapter either.
I used to see these carts at the flea market all the time but never thought twice about them. Interesting thought, I should have picked one up for kicks. And watched (and then gutted) some SpongeBob.
