Important notice: Windows XP is highly recommended as that version's windows media player is confirmed to work with this. Windows vista and later use is buggy when doing this and their use is not recommended (though some people got this to work on those OSes).
Any of you remember those grey gba cartridges made by Majesco that played videos on your gba such as Fairy OddParents, etc? Well, I took Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon, converted it from mp4 to avi, and then to gba from avi. I then popped it into Visual Boy Advance to test it out and it worked like a charm. You aren't technically hacking the original video roms, rather, the converted video makes its own .gba files. I'd share the file, but it's illegal to do so (especially since it's music), and making an IPS patch wouldn't work (and see the above parentheses). If this thread is not allowed in anyway shape or form, please edit this out and trash this.
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Posted by Nik Kershaw
Wouldn't It Be Good
Posted by Moline
This is a bio? Is this where I input Biology or Biography? And I'm pretty sure graphy is a suffix due to its usage in geography, photography, biography, and tomography.
It'd be compressed to death but the novelty of doing this sounds brilliant. Care to share a video of this? :)
But how did you convert it to GBA format? You didn't explain what tools/etc you used or what codecs etc
I am soo sorry. I will explain now.
Important notice: Windows XP is highly recommended as that version's windows media player is confirmed to work with this. Windows vista and later use is buggy when doing this and their use is not recommended (though some people got this to work on those OSes).
Step 1: Getting Atube
Download Atube and install it. Go to youtube, or daily motion or something similar and search for a video (such as Saturday Night Live or something similar), and copy the address bar link.
Step 2: Downloading the video
Open up Atube if it isn't already and paste the url from your video into the program's url bar. Hit download and it should pop up a box telling you of multiple formats. Select the mp4 format with the lowest resolution (so, if you have 500x500 and 100x100, select the 100x100 one). Hit the button in the box to download it to your desktop I believe. Close Atube.
Make sure convert to and preset are set to AVI and MS COMPATIBLE AVI respectively. Click add and browse to your mp4 file you just got (Example: Saturday Night Live 1/1/1978.mp4) Click convert and it should convert.
Step 5: Downloading Meteo
Download Meteo and extract it to your desktop or whatever. Open it.
Step 6: Converting from avi to gba
In Movie File field, select browse next to it and point it to your newly created AVI. For the GBA field, click browse, point it to where you want to save it and type in an appropriate name (Example: Saturday Night Live. The .GBA extension is added automatically, so no need to include that when typing in the file name) Hit save. In the ROM name field type in an appropriate name 12 characters or less. Change the bitrate to 500 (you may need to monkey around with this setting a bit depending on the video used) and then click process. It should work. If it errors, its because the file is over 32mb and needs to be shrunk somehow (It can error even if the file is less than 32mb, due to the fact it increases the file size and can increase it higher than 32mb)
Step 7: Testing it out in Visual Boy Advance
Open it up in Visual Boy Advance with sound up and it should work. If it does, you can then move on to some optional steps to make these files portable and playable on an actual GBA or even a 3DS if you'd like.
Step 8 (optional): Playing on a GBA flash cart or a 3DS
To play this on a GBA, use a GBA cartridge flash cart and copy the video rom over. To play it on a 3DS, go here and scroll down to the download links. Download the gba to cia converter from one of those links and extract it to your desktop or whatever. Open it up and load your rom. It won't know its game data so for the first page chose 32mb for rom size and None for save state. Click next and input the publisher info and an icon (Example: Long Name: Saturday Night Live 1/1/1978 Short Name: SNL Publisher: NBC). The icon must be 40x40 and preferebly be the SNL logo print screened from the rom opened in VBA. In the next page, use the same logo, but in bigger size (the program will tell you), and for the last page, just hit convert. Once done, copy the CIA into the CIA's folder on your 3DS sd card. Insert it back into your 3DS and import the CIA as you would any other CIA's (with FBI). Load it up and it should work like it did on VBA. Congratulations! You can now watch just about any tv show, movie, video, etc on your GBA/3DS.
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Posted by Nik Kershaw
Wouldn't It Be Good
Posted by Moline
This is a bio? Is this where I input Biology or Biography? And I'm pretty sure graphy is a suffix due to its usage in geography, photography, biography, and tomography.
Important notice: Windows XP is highly recommended as that version's windows media player is confirmed to work with this. Windows vista and later use is buggy when doing this and their use is not recommended (though some people got this to work on those OSes).
Windows XP is over 10 years old. I doubt anyone still has it.
Step 8 (optional): Playing on a GBA flash cart or a 3DS
To play this on a GBA, use a GBA cartridge flash cart and copy the video rom over. To play it on a 3DS, go here and scroll down to the download links. Download the gba to cia converter from one of those links and extract it to your desktop or whatever. Open it up and load your rom. It won't know its game data so for the first page chose 32mb for rom size and None for save state. Click next and input the publisher info and an icon (Example: Long Name: Saturday Night Live 1/1/1978 Short Name: SNL Publisher: NBC). The icon must be 40x40 and preferebly be the SNL logo print screened from the rom opened in VBA. In the next page, use the same logo, but in bigger size (the program will tell you), and for the last page, just hit convert. Once done, copy the CIA into the CIA's folder on your 3DS sd card. Insert it back into your 3DS and import the CIA as you would any other CIA's (with FBI). Load it up and it should work like it did on VBA. Congratulations! You can now watch just about any tv show, movie, video, etc on your GBA/3DS.
Yeah, um, why should we use the GBA Video format? Why not use the one made for the 3DS? I forgot what its called (moflex, I think), but its much better than this method, one of the reasons being you can run this tutorial on an OS people actually own now-a-days.
Also, not to backseat moderate or anything, but why do you need so much spoiler tags?