These guys'll go the distance in collecting their fare!
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Though, I'm not entirely clear on how having the two of them helps with the job...
Hiya, folks! The videos in this GBA series are captured from an actual Nintendo DS system in a Pixel-Perfect resolution and at 60 frames per second for superior quality and motion! I'm using a video capture device that has been installed on my DS system to output the video to my computer/TV. I use the TV screen like a "Super GBA/DS" to play on the big screen, and also record at the same time! Enjoy!
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It's time to speed up! Well, maybe later? Each segment in this set is a WHOPPING 25 microgames long! Yeesh~! That's one heck of a marathon before an extra life attempt! Not only that, the boss is essentially a game in its own right, some kinda crazy space-shooter! At least Dribble has some cool music to listen to on the radio. It's fairly chill, in its weird little way, so you shouldn't feel quite as frantic, here. As for the speeding up... I'm not sure if it's just me, but it feels like the game speeds up extra steps after the usual first 3 bosses! I mean, look how fast that final boss run went! Nearly gave me a heart attack!
I've always liked the feel in this Sci-Fi group of games: the rolling wipers in the rain, the music, the cool colors. It like taking a Sunday drive among all the insanity in Wario Ware.
Cat's name is Spitz, by the way.
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Some additional notes for those technically inclined:
The DS essentially has a GBA built-in and plays it exactly the same as a GBA system would. I'm using a video capture device that has been installed on my DS system to output the video to my computer/TV. I use the TV screen like a "Super GBA/DS" to play on the big screen, and also record at the same time (in a lossless format)! The original resolution of a GBA game is 240 x 160, so one problem to overcome was how to "blow up" the image without hurting it... because KZfaq requires videos to be in 1080p or 720p to played back at 60fps and the GBA IS 60fps capable!
Well, to maintain the pixel art that most GBA games use, we can use a very simple resizing algorithm, "nearest neighbor", that essentially multiplies the "pixels" in a proper ratio to keep everything looking the same... but bigger! This can only be done by integer values, whole numbers, not fractions. So, the video can be blown up EXACTLY 2 times, or 3 times, or 4 times, and so on! The GBA does not fit exactly into a 1080p (or 720p) space which is why you will see some black area, but this ensures the proper size is maintained and that KZfaq will accept it. If you use a fractional resize value to make it exactly 1080 pixels tall, you will get some graphical anomalies like, an eye being larger than the other, or a line being longer than it was originally, text being misshapen, and so on. So no cheating! If you use a resize filter that softens the image a bit, you can resize to pretty much any size you want, but this hurts old-school pixel art! (It looks blurry!) Conversely, using the "Nearest Neigbor" algorithm on NON-Pixelated material will make that look worse, too! There's no one-size fits all!
The GBA is natively progressive so there's no need to deinterlace, kinda like modern HD consoles! Neat!
Enjoy the crystal-clarity!