Quick question that many people here ought to know: what was the name (or model number, whatever) of the development device by Intelligent Systems that allows you to play GBA games on a TV? There have actually been a few for sale on the forums, I just can't remember what they're called.
No, I don't think that's it. It wasn't a capture device, just a device that lets you play GBA games on a TV or anything with a video input. I think it had an MultiAV port on the back. I've never owned one, but I've seen lots of pictures and read a lot about them. I also remember that you control it with a modified GBA that connects via a big, SCSI-like cable.
Wideboy-AGB There is a version of the Wideboy-AGB that let's you plug in a GBA into the unit and use that to control the game being played. Otherwise you'd use an N64 controller. Shiggsy
Some good pics of the IS-AGB-CAPTURE http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/8898/agbcapture3tu1.jpg http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/5005/agbcapture2dj4.jpg
I have one of those nifty devices myself. I'd rather have the USB version of it though, anyone want to trade?
What difference does the USB version make, just replaces the SCSI bus with a USB port? Also, what's the SCSI port used for, just upgrading firmware?
It's for up(and down)grading firmware and taking screenshots with a PC application. That application can't record video as far as I know, what a shame.. The USB version does the same over USB + the first 3 of the 8 dip switches are useless, on my unit they are used for changing the "SCSI ID". Found an old post of me being happy about the purchase and a picture: http://assemblergames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=391124&postcount=1812
Heh, nice. Suprised they didn't make the IS-*-EMULATOR capable of outputting via AV-OUT by itself, woulda meant one unit does both things :S
But then they wouldn't have been able to sell these capture units for $1,700 each (I seem to recall them costing that back in the day) =) Shiggsy
I just read about nintendo's recent huge losses, I really do think that the reason they made money from back in the day is because they charged excessive amounts for dev kits, I know pre-beta GDEVs were like $10,000 or so weren't they? Absolute joke.
No, it outputs video and S-video only - like the N64 at its time! I have a complete IS-AGB-CAPTURE device, here are some pics: IS-AGB-CAPTURE complete set: Playing GameBoy Tetris on TV: Running IS-AGB-CAPTURE software:
