Game Boy Advance Video: Nintendo’s forgotten media format

Game Boy Advance Video was a video format released in 2004 that effectively transformed your GBA into a multimedia device. GBA Video cartridges contained cartoons from Nickelodeon, 4Kids, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and more and also some movies like Shrek and Shark Tale were released for the format. In this small video documentary, we’ll take a look on the video technology used for the format and its history.

2:25 - I made a real goof and said "back light" instead of "front light", it was a typo in the script and it slipped by, sorry aaa

Big thanks to Scaevola for lending me the cartridges used here:    / @scaevolaludens679  

Hard4Games video about how to use GBA Video on Game Boy Player:    • RGB H4G :: Get The BEST Picture from ...  

Endrift’s article about the movie cartridges and the Matrix 3D technology: https://mgba.io/2015/10/20/dumping-th...

Patents: https://patents.justia.com/search?q=m...

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Chapters:

00:00 Historical Context
2:56 Development
5:02 Technology
7:02 Movies
9:13 Cartoon cartridges overview


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Outro: Bee Line (YM2151 Cover) by John Tay

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