Posts Tagged ‘nintendo’
In the video I review the GBA accessorie called the e readerSuper Mario Advance 4 Hack
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
This is the result of having some free time to kill and being a huge Mario fan…
I’d just recently learned about those awesome e-Reader features hidden inside this game – which we Europeans never got to see !!! – when I stumbled across this thread on the famous Acmlmboard:
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/board/thread.php?id=5226&page=1
This just made me want to give SMA4 hacking a try, and the result is, what you can see in these videos.
I did nothing big so far, tough…
I’ve just tried myself at some simple object and enemy replacements, but everyone has to start with something small, right ?
The level editing was done via hex editor, and I’ve created the new worldmap with Marionator, a map (NOT level!) editor for SMA4, in case you want to know.
You can download Marionator by following this link: https://acmlm.kafuka.org:81/uploader/get.php?id=1993
But remember, that it’s only a map editor.
It can’t edit the levels…
Duration : 0:2:7
Taking a Look at the Nintendo e-Reader(Mirror)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Ryan your a dumbass,and your WRONG!….all sarcasm aside
Original Uploader:tvandlust
Original Description:Nintendo’s e-Reader add-on for the Game Boy Advance released in Japan in 2001 and 2002 in North America. A mild success, the e-Reader was also eventually bundled with the GBA. Using a licensed dot code technology, cards containing embedded data could be scanned into the device and then played. Cards could have different games, applications, or items for other games.
Many different kinds of cards were eventually released for the e-Reader, the most popular of which were full NES games on 5 cards. Cards for the Gamecube Animal Crossing, cards for Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, cards for the Pokemon TCG/Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire versions, and many others were also available to purchase.
The e-Reader is a fairly common item, as are its cards, and it’s easy to find them on eBay or in secondhand shops for very cheap. Even though it’s little more than a novelty now, I recommend checking it out if you’ve got a few extra bucks to spare.
Duration : 0:10:54
GAME GALAXY:Nintendo E-Reader Review
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
This is a review of Nintendo’s E-Reader accessory for the Game Boy Advance and/or Game Cube.At the time the product looked pretty cool but it was kind of a let down.
Duration : 0:4:20
Super Mario Advance 4: e-reader levels (1)
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Hey! About time I’d give these levels a try, though I was looking for them for a very while, I did it in the wrong way (don’t ask… -_-)
Whatever, now I’m able to play the “official” new set of levels available from e-reader cards (phailure from NOA, though, but a big WIN on japan, hmmm) into your Mario Advance 4 gamepak. (blah, blah, blah, lol xD).
Anyway, I play as the two brothers, with some mistakes and lost lives (lol).
Duration : 0:6:51
Great Ideas in Gaming Episode 1 – The E-reader
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Not my best work, good start for a new series, please enjoy
The e-reader has fascinated me ever since I got one, and no one really understood why it was so great
I love collecting the cards, and it would be awesome to have all of them, but thats for another time
Duration : 0:6:4
e-Reader – Jumping Doduo
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Here’s some pretty rare footage for you, utilizing two pretty rare Nintendo devices. I searched around on YouTube and couldn’t find many e-Reader videos (as in the GBA attachment, not the recent eBook machines). So here you go, the “Jumping Doduo” mini-game.
I had attached the e-Reader to the Game Boy Player, one of the few things the Nintendo Gamecube can handle that the Wii can’t. So essentially, I attached a failed Nintendo device to another failed Nintendo device. The e-Reader was something that would attach to the Game Boy Advance. Built into it is a device that lets it read dot codes on e-Reader cards. You swipe them through the e-Reader like you would a credit card, and if all is well, the e-Reader will ick it up and store the data on the dot code. The Game Boy Player is a machine that connects to the bottom of a Gamecube and allows you to play GBA games on it. Since there’s nothing on a GBA that lets me connect it to my video capture device, I plugged the e-Reader into the Game Boy Player.
The mini-game you see here is “Jumping Doduo.” You can play it by scanning in the cards “Doduo” and “Dodrio” from the Aquapolis set of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, released back in 2001. When you successfully scan in the long codes for both of them (there are two codes on these cards, a short one at the bottom and a long one on the right), the e-Reader will be able to load the mini-game.
It’s a very simple one, really. Doduo is running across a plain, and he needs to jump over everything in his way. Doduo jumps with the A button, and in addition to rocks, he’ll jump over Bulbasaur, Bellsprout, Teddiursa, Electrode, Sudowoodo, Dugtrio, and Totodile. Each obsctacle has a different height and a different width, so you can’t approach them all the same way. (But almost the same way.) Your score is the number of obstacles Doduo has jumped over, and the game ends when Doduo runs into or lands on something.
It’s just a cute little extra for the card game. It’s very simple in design, but more than anything else, it’s a bonus for having these two cards.
Don’t ask for more Pokémon e-Reader minigames though, since this is the only one where I have all the cards required.
Duration : 0:3:51
Taking a Look at the Nintendo e-Reader
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Nintendo’s e-Reader add-on for the Game Boy Advance released in Japan in 2001 and 2002 in North America. A mild success, the e-Reader was also eventually bundled with the GBA. Using a licensed dot code technology, cards containing embedded data could be scanned into the device and then played. Cards could have different games, applications, or items for other games.
Many different kinds of cards were eventually released for the e-Reader, the most popular of which were full NES games on 5 cards. Cards for the Gamecube Animal Crossing, cards for Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, cards for the Pokemon TCG/Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire versions, and many others were also available to purchase.
The e-Reader is a fairly common item, as are its cards, and it’s easy to find them on eBay or in secondhand shops for very cheap. Even though it’s little more than a novelty now, I recommend checking it out if you’ve got a few extra bucks to spare.
Duration : 0:10:54
e-Reader Ad
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
A commercial for the short-lived Game Boy Advance add-on that used cards to play games.
Duration : 0:0:31
In the 1st episode of this new series, I review the Nintendo eReader.