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Another fun fact is that the Advance Movie Adapter automatically reads files from a FAT-12 (and supposedly FAT-16) filesystem.
While files can become fragmented, the adapter automatically handles all of this, so the GBA can just read a continuous block of memory from the device.
Last week I finally implemented a proper way of reading FAT entries from SmartMedia disc images in GBE+, so file fragmentation is no longer an issue for emulation.
The Advance Movie Adapter is a special GBA cartridge that allowed users to play videos from SmartMedia cards. It's kind of like the GBA Video Cartridges by Majesco, except it arguably has better compression and quality.
Been messing around with improving emulation for it in GBE+ recently. Fun fact, some of the videos are protected from playing on the GB Player for the GameCube (mostly Pokemon videos as far as I know). They have this custom error screen if it detects the GB Player.
Pulled the trigger on this. Bad time to buy during the RAMpocalypse (even for DDR4), but 32GB under $100 USD was too tempting. Thank goodness I had a bunch of gift cards sitting around.
Didn't want to risk my old pair of 8GB sticks going bad with current prices increasing. Hopefully it'll give my 2019 rig some more life until all this AI madness passes.
I don't have any workloads that break 16GB (even gaming), but I figured why not double my current capacity.
Heh, I totally misspelled "Bayer Didget" as "Bayer Digit" all over the codebase in GBE+ 😂
I'll fix it tomorrow lmao
Starting off 2026 hot by emulating more exotic DS hardware.
This time it's the Bayer Didget Glucose Meter, essentially a copy+paste job of the earlier Glucoboy on the GBA.
Didn't take much to get it up and running in GBE+. You can now generate in-game points that normally would require a small blood sacrifice (via the glucose meter).
Forgot to post this earlier, but I've got another article up. This time it's the end of year discussion on the State of Emulation, specially how far along we are to emulating every piece of hardware for the Nintendo DS.
A solid 50% of the peripherals listed are supported already in existing emulators. We also have a solid foundation for emulating the remaining items. 2026 will surely bring us closer to preserving everything the DS had to offer.
Crap! It's still alive... and it got away.
Look buddy, don't expect a good time when I start gaming tonight.
Nanoraptor