TMNT and other 4Kids shows comming to GBA...
 

http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/498/498037p1.html

Majesco's made a video compression technology that allows up to 90 minutes of full color quality video to be put on a standard GBA cart. Sonic X and yugioh are also mentioned to be getting the GBA treatment.

Mods, I wasn't sure where to post this, so it went here. I've checked the news reports, and it wasn't in there.

Hmm.. that's sound kinda interesting. I wouldn't buy them, though.

Re: TMNT and other 4Kids shows comming to GBA...
 

Yeah I remember hearing about this a few months back over on ToonZone. In fact, I was wondering about it the other day, I'm glad to hear it's still coming along.

Yeah, it all depends on the price point. Since they don't have to pay for really expensive development cycles for each video, it should be pretty cheap. If it's about the price of a DVD, hopefully less, I'll pick 'em up.

Price is kinda an issue. If they charge $30 for 3 episodes and $15 for a DVD with the same or more...what's the point?

Why would you pay twice the price to watch them on a tiny screen?

Ya if there cheap ill buy them...Cool stuff

One word: Portable.

I don't think they're gonna be too much really. The reason games are so expensive is because of the development cycle (how long it takes from planning to shipping the product out when making a game). With this there's not engine to build or anything, so it should be pretty cheap i'd think.

DVD > GBA Cart. I imagine that quality would be alot better on the DVD's, and price would be better.

Portablity isn't an issue for me, since my laptop can play DVD's, and I've been thinking of picking up one them small portable DVD players with the screens.

Well, it is an interesting idea. But I have to agree that it depends on the price.

I don't see how my poor GBA can handle playing cartoons...

I mean, it has a hard enough time with Tony Hawk....

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not to be an ass but Majesco isn't exactly the best developer... Personally I like many of their games but for the most part they're not that popular. Nearly all their games are "budget titles".

However it may be good news - for you who don't know, Majesco makes a lot of budget games or games that end up being budget games (Bloodrayne, Iridion 3D, Blowout, etc), so those new video carts might be cheap (not likely though after Fox, 4kids, Mirage/Saban/etc, Majesco, and retailers all get their cut).

Personally I think a better use of the technology would be video footage as cutscenes in standard games.

I might buy one if I can find one for 20 bucks or less and the episodes are really great. Just so I could have some turtle goodness where ever I go... Also I wonder if anyone will rip the rom files from these. That would be interesting...

It's interesting but it presents a bunch of problems.(Price,video quality,amount of video and size of the screen.) If it is like $5 per cart then maybe it would be decent but I doubt that will happen.

"The company will produce 12 different volumes of individual episodes this May, including episodes from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Sonic X."

"individual episodes"
Then that means 1 episode per cart? If so thats kind of crappy.

The video quality probably doesn't have to be that great since it is on a small screen (just the same or similar resolution of the screen) but it may be difficult to watch on such a small screen.

Besides the are kits/adapters where you can watch video on the GBA already and you can encode anything that you want to watch.

How the heck come Sonic X becomes viewable on GBA as a cartridge but not as a DVD yet?!?!?

It's coming out on DVD soon, I think.

I just got word they're 20 bucks.

20 bucks... for a single episode... yeah... Brilliant. I'm sure they'll sell like hot cakes.

:tthumbsd:

Wow that really sucks. One crappy low res episode for $20 plus it's more than a DVD which has more episodes and better picture quality.

If I really wanted the TMNT episodes on the GBA I would go with the video kit/adapter and encode them myself. For a price of a few of those 1 episode carts you can pay for the kit.

What will probably happen is that no one will but them and they will end up in the bargin bin fast. Or perhaps people will buy them thinking it is a game.

I agree with Drtooth. :tthumbsd:

Sounds good but I've already been converting TMNT eps so they can be watched on me N-Gage :D

yikes, the ngage's screen is even smaller than the GBA's.


I'm waiting to see if the Tapwave Zodiac has a decent homebrew scene.

Its not too bad though :)

I've managed to fit the first TMNT movie, 2 eps of the new toon and 3 eps of The Real Ghostbusters onto me memory card ready for the journey home tomorrow :)

http://ebgames.com/ebx/product/242536.asp

There about $20 or more. Fullscreen with DVD like features like subtitles and language selection. Chapter selection too! It's suppose to be 100% clear. By the looks of some images I've seen on the site, it is.

Volume 1 contains 2 episodes, Things Change and Meet Casey Jones. Also says full-length feature films coming soon! Cool. :tcool:

Edit: Thanks for telling me it had 2.

Hmmm, $20 a piece for 2 episodes? Things change and meet casey jones were good eps, but I allready have the dvd's. I will most likelybuy these because I'm a GBA SP fanatic, and a TMNT fanatic. My fanatiscism is killing my wallet slowly. By the way the package says it has 2 eps.

It says 2? Really? Yay! More to watch in the car!

Well 2 is better than 1 but still $10+(tax) an episode is a bit pricey.

Carts have a battery and batteries die so I wouldnt buy one

a 1000k avatar?... nice... :lol:

What are you talking about? Cartridges don't have batteries.

I think he ment to say the GBA runs on batteries

Actually carts DO have batteries in them. They use 'em for save data, and that's it really.

However, i REALLY doubt these movie carts will have to save anything, so there won't be any battery that'll die.

.. someone actually BOUGHT one of those things? :o .

Nah, you wouldn't need to save anything cause basically it's like a DVD in a small cartidge. It'd be cool to have cause if your in class, you can just turn it on, put the sound down and enter subtitles and watch. HA ha ha. Just kidding, I wouldn't be so dumb to do that. The best thing about this basically is it's portable. They are gonna put feature films on GBA later on. Ha ha, think of this, watch Terminator 3 on GBA. It'd be pretty cool actually. Sooner or later we might get The Real Ghostbusters of even the ORIGINAL Ninja Turtles on GBA. It could happen.

You got that right. Those things had no more than like 20 games. Is the quality even good? How did you convert episodes to N-Gage?

I bought it for the phone and music features mainly, but the games I have aren't bad. That said, Nokia needs to do a lot of work to make it into a credible gaming system.

Anyways, I downloaded a media converter thing from Nokia's website which sorts out the right format and everything. Quality could be so much better, but for cartoons its not too bad.

Doesn't the screen have a weird aspect ratio? It looks like it has the opposite aspect ratio of standard TV(3:4 instead of 4:3). Does it stretch or crop the video to fit the screen or can you watch video turning the screen sideways? The screen is already small so it must be hard to watch.

I'm going to pass getting the TMNT episodes...but DAMN the FOP carts may be hard to pass up.

"45 minutes of video on a single cartridge with longer content, including full length feature films, coming soon"

So if they do offer feature films they are going to be on 2 or 3 carts? That's ridiculous. They better use bigger capacity carts or develop/use a better video compression.

Well of course it's gonna be bigger cartirdges. That' just be dumb to put them on 2 or 3 cartridges.

Meehhh... 2 eps isn't as bad... but I wouldn't buy them myself. Not at all. OF course... I don't have a GBA, so my opinion doesn't really matter...

Ahh but you forget the GBA SP! It has a light!
....But I just thought of something.

Wouldn't it be funny to purchse the GBA TV Player, and the TMNT Eps for GBA just to watch them on your gamecube?

Yeah it is indeed a vertical screen, but the videos are shown in a square. Again, its not too bad for cartoons, but anything else is a bit too much.