GBA Multimedia Adapter?

[IceDigger]

Me so happy me have music!

Nintendo has released a statement that they are building a multimedia adapter for the Gameboy Advance unit. This unit allows use of an SD card to play mp3 music and mp4 videos via that sd card. Also included is an earphone jack.

This device is called the Play-Yan and will be released in February of 2005. Pricing will be stated close to then.

Very very interesting that Nintendo has done something like this.

Thanks to Spong for the info.

 

[schi0249]

Sweet. I hope its compatible with the DS. And I hope theyh put it out in the US.

 

[IceDigger]

Yes, it is compatible with the DS 🙂

 

[CrazyGoon]

I expected them to do something like this - since the PSP is supposed to be a pocket pc with d-pad, N probably thought it would be loosing too much of the market share if they didn't jump aboard the boat of bloat.

They made a movie player for the GBA, or was that third party?

meh..

 

[schi0249]

There are a few 3rd party ones. I like the idea how Panasonic is working on it with them.

 

[racketboy]

yeah it's supposed to work with the DS and SP, but not the original GBA. Not sure why. I would really like one, but I only have an original one right now 🙁

 

[Ian Van Dahl]

How much music can it hold?

 

[jamesc359]

Where it uses an SD card for storage it would depend upon how big your card is. Usually SD cards go for about $60-$70 for a half gig (512MB), which is enough for about 4 hours of music at 128Kbps.

 

[IceDigger]

Actually you can get 1GB SD cards for ~$50 now 😀

 

[BJammzz]

this is pretty sweet......hopefully it'll be relativly cheap and will work real well.

 

[Ian Van Dahl]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(IceMan2k)</div><div class='quotemain'>Actually you can get 1GB SD cards for ~$50 now[/quote]

Where?!!