NESP Alternatives.

someone · Post by **someone** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:40 pm

yeah... the power players are pretty good though...

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:14 am

You mean the super joy's? Yea, I have a power joy, strangely enough the GBA SP player should work just as good as the Power Joy, because like the Power Joy, it runs off of 4 batteries, I didn't take apart the GBA SP player to see if its a NES On a Chip but I'm almost positive it is. Its just weird that it plays not the full frams per second (the gradius shots are not smooth, they're choppy, as well as the pinball in pinball). Either way, its better just to strap a screen to a power joy and rig it up to work off of batteries. This disappointment I bought is getting me more itchy for my dremel to arrive here so I can finish building my NESp.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:40 pm

gannon wrote:now if only they showed a program to change roms into that dot code.

They do, there's an online version, which I think is better IMO, and a downloaded version. I have tried the download version, and it didn't work for me, now just to try the online, and I have a demo ready to try.

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:08 pm

Do you have a link to the online version? I am very interested.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:12 pm

E-Reader Online Dot Code Maker service. Be sure to use demos smaller than 27 kB zipped! Read the instructions before doing anything. It may be down now, so you might have to wait.

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:59 pm

The link is down for now, but can you send me the downloaded version via msn messenger? that site is down too...

The Zydeco King · Post by **The Zydeco King** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:18 am

you can now run NES roms on your GBA from a Compact Flash card if you buy one of these GBA movie players for $25 U.S. http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?catego ... ts_id=3983&
I have one and it kicks butt.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:06 pm

The Zydeco King wrote:you can now run NES roms on your GBA from a Compact Flash card if you buy one of these GBA movie players for $25 U.S. http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?catego ... ts_id=3983&
I have one and it kicks butt.

MUST GET!

The Zydeco King · Post by **The Zydeco King** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 12:48 pm

I've had the GBA movie player for almost a year now. But only recently is the player capable of playing NES roms, why because the firmware is upgradeable. And the latest firmware which came out two weeks ago, now supports NES roms. This thing is ever evolving because of the upgradeable firmware.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:09 pm

The Zydeco King wrote:I've had the GBA movie player for almost a year now. But only recently is the player capable of playing NES roms, why because the firmware is upgradeable. And the latest firmware which came out two weeks ago, now supports NES roms. This thing is ever evolving because of the upgradeable firmware.

Sweet!

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:53 pm

I'm gonna have to get me one of these, I seen one off base, and I was debating buying it but i didn't because it didn't play NES games... but I guess that changed.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:31 pm

do you also go to the forums at AtariAge? I remember the name, and the location and talking about being in the military makes me even more sure (I'm spongebue there, btw)

keilbaca · Post by **keilbaca** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:34 pm

Yep, won the gold as Team Activision in the Atarilympics!

The Zydeco King wrote:you can now run NES roms on your GBA from a Compact Flash card if you buy one of these GBA movie players for $25 U.S. http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?catego ... ts_id=3983&
I have one and it kicks butt.

Do you notice any slowdowns at all? Because I got the Famicom player for GBA SP and it only runs at like 15-20 FPS... I just don't want to have any lag for NES games.

The Zydeco King · Post by **The Zydeco King** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:01 pm

I have never seen any slow downs ever.
The GBA movie player is using an emulator called "Pocket NES" (which is the same emulator that is used for running NES roms on GBA flash carts.)

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:27 pm

The Zydeco King wrote:you can now run NES roms on your GBA from a Compact Flash card if you buy one of these GBA movie players for $25 U.S. http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?catego ... ts_id=3983&
I have one and it kicks butt.

I own one of those adaptors, and you should know that they have their limitations. The NES emulation was never even planned when the product was first sold, but about a month ago they released a firmware upgrade that took advtanage of PocketNES to allow for NES emulation.

Because it all has to be loaded into the RAM of the GBA, you're limited by a maximum ROM size of 192kb. That cuts out a lot of great games, but most (possibly all) of the games now being re-released as part of the "NES Classics" series are small enough.

The other problem it has is that saving is impossible. The guys who make the device have been hinting that it could possible be introduced at a later stage, but for now you're stuck without save support.

Aside from that, it's pretty good. You actually have to put the PocketNES ROM onto your CompactFlash card to play the games, so you can update it whenever the author releases a new version. You can also transfer games over the link cable to other GBAs, or even remove the adaptor once the game is loaded.

It's a handy little feature, especially as it was completely unexpected, but it is no substitute for a real NES. A cheap flash cart (64Mb) should satisfy your needs, however.