Hmm, the copy of Codename: Kids Next Door - Volume 1 was sealed but it didn't come with a French manual. I don't know if this was a factory error or if it never came with a translated manual. I'll have to keep an eye out on eBay to see if maybe a loose one shows up.
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Picked up another Canadian GBA Video cart. This is the third Canadian version I've gotten my hands on and I've noticed they appear to intentionally have the game backwards in the sleeve.
Why? Well it looks like it's because the 3-sided sleeve doesn't have the safety warnings on the right side where it normally does... which for some reason they opted to put the Video's title instead.
I checked some of my other Canadian 3-sided sleeved games and all of them translated the safety warnings into French as well (Happy Feet for reference in the 3rd image). I have no clue why they chose to do this.
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Recently received my GBA Video box protectors from Buzz and Bingo's Moon Circus on eBay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/165956329930).
While it's nice they exist considering relatively few vendors actually carry this size, it's a tight fit and really just a "better than nothing" kind of solution in my opinion. I'm not sure I can recommend them, especially if you want to protect a sealed copy.
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@mos_8502 OFC that would only work whilst the CPU isn't interacting with said bus, meaning it'll have to idle or do something different in the meantime (if that's possible)...
But this could basically allow for some sort of video stream to be shoved onto the "GPU" framebuffer/VRAM independently from the CPU, thus allowing for stuff like said "Video Cartridge"...
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Kevin Karhan 