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There was even movies on Game Boy Advance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_Video Which is kind of dumb, compared to UMD. And if you think about it, we watch movies on mobile devices. The first iPhone came out years later, so we wasn’t used to smartphones yet.

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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hilariously, the video cartridges are blocked from working on GameCube Game Boy Player. We can’t have you watching videos you paid for, on the TV!

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- xtools@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  probably because the video resolution has been abysmal to begin with to fit it on the cartridge
  
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  - Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m 100% sure that they placed the artificial block not because of the bad resolution but because the copyright holders gave a license for portable viewing and not for home video (probably cheaper at the time)
    
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    xtools@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    makes sense
    
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snooggums@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
We have a lot more pixels today.

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