By Dave Zatz
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Nintendo has rebranded their Play-Yan multimedia device for the Gameboy Micro. The unit works by reading data off of an SD card, which you provide, and streaming it through the Gameboy. Both MP3 audio and MPEG4 video are supported. The Play-Yan is bundled with Media Stage 4.2, PC software for converting and organizing your content. However, you are not required to use it if you don’t happen to read Japanese. To convert Tivo To Go video files to ASF MPEG4 you can use the same software and methods as with the PSP. (Source: Zatz Not Funny…)
Size Doesn’t Matter: The Gameboy Micro’s 2″ screen pales in comparison to the luscious PSP display, but audio/video support in such a compact device is very cool indeed.
And on the un-official side, also from Lik Sang, you can get some other devices that I will not mention specifically that can do that same, although the size of the carts are a little bit left to be desired. I own one, and to be honest, it isn’t so bad, if it weren’t for the horribly long amount of time required for conversion of videos.
TiVo On Gameboy Micro? You Betcha!
Dave Zatz, Contributing Writer of RealTechNews, writes: Nintendo has rebranded its Play-Yan multimedia device for the Gameboy Micro. The unit works by reading data off of an SD card, which you provide, and streaming it through the Gameboy. Both MP3 aud…
TiVo ToGo on the Gameboy Micro
Nintendo fans: Tired of your PSP-totin’ buddies giving you grief for not having multimedia on your gaming handheld of choice? Well fret no more, because Nintendo has rebranded their Play-Yan multimedia device for the Gameboy Micro. It works by streami…
This thing is not really my thing, I like my game portables for the games. Watching video on a portable is something I rarely do, and generally when it has been the case, I’ve used my 15″ Powerbook. Downgrading a video to a lower-rez format is as already mentioned tooo time consuming, but if you’re bored, then have fun. For a GBA Micro though, this does make more sense, since it’s sooo easy to carry around and was built to be durable like all Nintendo portables.
Sony PSP fans: Tired of your DS-totin’ buddies giving you grief for not having any good games to choose from on your “fragile–jack-of-all-trades–dust-collecting–screen blurring/color-bleeding” handheld of choice?
diz product iz off da h00k, fo shoo!