3rd generation GBA Movie Player (M3); DS support
Posted: 2005-08-01 01:46pm
http://www.m3adapter.com/
This claims to be the third generation GameBoy Advance Movie Player (MovieAdvance). The site looks professional, and everything looks legitamite. A WhoIs reveals that Movieadvance web site and the M3 adapter sites have different registrants (individuals, not companies), but both live in Hong Kong so they could be related.
An email gives,
Some places are reporting 8 MB of built in RAM. Hopefully this is true; the problem with the GBA MP was that while it had an NES emulator, you could not play games bigger than 250k because of the GBA's limited RAM, and CF cards aren't fast enough for XIP so you can't run it off the card.
It claims to be fully compatible with everything the previous Movie Player could do...
Plus take WHOLE GBA games and is fully compatible with all of them, running them natively...and it's DS compatible
With the Movie Player, if you ran it on the DS you had to run it as a GBA game, so it ran on only one screen and didn't take up the whole screen.
Well, with the M3 player, you can still use it like the previous one, but if you buy a PassKey (which they will sell) or the already-existing PassMe (which is a cartridge you put in the DS slot, so that you start the DS game, then it loads off the GBA cartridge slot, so that you can play a DS game off the GBA slot), then it starts up in DS mode.
The movies take up the whole screen, and you can run Super Nintendo, NES, Sega Master System, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, FC, and Sega Game Gear emulators that come built in
I'd assume you can't do that in GBA mode, but on a DS the processor should be fast enough to emulate those systems.
Adding 8 + 4 should mean you can run games under 12 MB...
And it can run all DS Homebrew such as DSLinux and Wins.
And there will be one version that can also run commercial DS games (aka you rip entire DS games onto the card and take them with you).
There will be a SD card and CF card version (I'll probably buy the SD card).
Here are the formats the conversion software (already released) handles:
Dobly AC3 audio frequency file (*. AC3)
target's file of DVD video (*. VOB)
wave form sound file of Microsoft (*. WAV)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-2 file (*. MP2)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 file (*. MP3)
Real media file (*. RA, *. RM, *. RAM, *. RMVB)
MPEG-1 media file (*. Mpeg, *. Mpg)
MPEG-2 media file (*. M2V)
Windows media file (*. AVI, *. ASF, *. WMA, *. WMV)
VCD video file (*. DAT)
QuickTime media file (*. MOV)
MPEG-4 media file (*. AVI)
DivX media file (*. AVI)
This will also give a serious boost to the DSLinux team, as they're trying to squeeze the Linux kernel, X, and a GUI on top of that, on 4 MB of RAM; with this it goes to 12 MB.
This looks absolutely awesome. Who wouldn't want a DS that can, not just play movies, look at pictures, and play music like the PSP, but also play emulated games from a half dozen game consoles and run homebrew PDA-like apps?
I'm already saving for this. I intend to purchase a 512 MB SD card, load it up with all my GBA games, one full-length movie (probably Star Wars
or Spaceballs...), multiple SNES and Game Gear games, and all my GameBoy Color games.
w00t...
This claims to be the third generation GameBoy Advance Movie Player (MovieAdvance). The site looks professional, and everything looks legitamite. A WhoIs reveals that Movieadvance web site and the M3 adapter sites have different registrants (individuals, not companies), but both live in Hong Kong so they could be related.
An email gives,
Hi ,
Thanks for your concern about our products.
We are undecided the price temporarily .Due to the market has been changed
continuously, we knew that the price has been decided competitor's price very
much. But the price is much less than the NEO Flash .
PassKey is about USD18.
M3 adapter has not sold now. M3 -GBA CF version will be put out within 2 weeks ,
and M3-NDS CF & SD version will be put out within 4 weeks .You may buy our
products from the online stores later.
We are different companies but we have the same technology team.
Regards
Danny
Some places are reporting 8 MB of built in RAM. Hopefully this is true; the problem with the GBA MP was that while it had an NES emulator, you could not play games bigger than 250k because of the GBA's limited RAM, and CF cards aren't fast enough for XIP so you can't run it off the card.
It claims to be fully compatible with everything the previous Movie Player could do...
Plus take WHOLE GBA games and is fully compatible with all of them, running them natively...and it's DS compatible
With the Movie Player, if you ran it on the DS you had to run it as a GBA game, so it ran on only one screen and didn't take up the whole screen.
Well, with the M3 player, you can still use it like the previous one, but if you buy a PassKey (which they will sell) or the already-existing PassMe (which is a cartridge you put in the DS slot, so that you start the DS game, then it loads off the GBA cartridge slot, so that you can play a DS game off the GBA slot), then it starts up in DS mode.
The movies take up the whole screen, and you can run Super Nintendo, NES, Sega Master System, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, FC, and Sega Game Gear emulators that come built in
I'd assume you can't do that in GBA mode, but on a DS the processor should be fast enough to emulate those systems.Adding 8 + 4 should mean you can run games under 12 MB...
And it can run all DS Homebrew such as DSLinux and Wins.
And there will be one version that can also run commercial DS games (aka you rip entire DS games onto the card and take them with you).
There will be a SD card and CF card version (I'll probably buy the SD card).
Here are the formats the conversion software (already released) handles:
Dobly AC3 audio frequency file (*. AC3)
target's file of DVD video (*. VOB)
wave form sound file of Microsoft (*. WAV)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-2 file (*. MP2)
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 file (*. MP3)
Real media file (*. RA, *. RM, *. RAM, *. RMVB)
MPEG-1 media file (*. Mpeg, *. Mpg)
MPEG-2 media file (*. M2V)
Windows media file (*. AVI, *. ASF, *. WMA, *. WMV)
VCD video file (*. DAT)
QuickTime media file (*. MOV)
MPEG-4 media file (*. AVI)
DivX media file (*. AVI)
This will also give a serious boost to the DSLinux team, as they're trying to squeeze the Linux kernel, X, and a GUI on top of that, on 4 MB of RAM; with this it goes to 12 MB.
This looks absolutely awesome. Who wouldn't want a DS that can, not just play movies, look at pictures, and play music like the PSP, but also play emulated games from a half dozen game consoles and run homebrew PDA-like apps?
I'm already saving for this. I intend to purchase a 512 MB SD card, load it up with all my GBA games, one full-length movie (probably Star Wars
or Spaceballs...), multiple SNES and Game Gear games, and all my GameBoy Color games.w00t...