Play-Yan for Smash!

> The secret mode on the Smash Ultimate menu is blurred > Play Yan Micro blurs the hell out of videos GUYS G U Y S

The fact that play-Yan was both in the 3ds sound visualizer and rhythm heaven makes this even cooler. Kinda sad we didn’t get this overseas..

Imagine how much even more obscure this would be if not for that Rhythm Heaven minigame.

Came from ScottTheWoz, stayed for the quality content ❤️

Wow it has a headphone jack!? Apple take notes!!

UPDATE: If you're interested in an unscripted followup, I recently obtained a complete copy of the ORIGINAL Play-Yan model, and unboxed it over on my Plus channel below! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKlihZqlxtHYZoU.html Hi! 2020 me here to inform you that past me was a dunce and 2:06 is wrong, the Play-Yan Micro shares the exact same size and appearance as the original aside from the label.

Can’t wait to watch Infinity War on this

I've always wanted one of these. It's nice to see Play-Yan make a cameo on the 3DS Music app visualizer.

I love it when KZfaqrs cover obscure pieces of tech like this and bring so much information about it to light.

Man this must’ve been so cool back before our phone became an all in one music player phone game machine. So cool to see an in depth look at this obscure little guy

When I saw the memory card with a memory card with a memory card with a memory card, “YEAH BOI”

Its cool that they actually added play yan in tengoku and remastered him in megamix

Who the heck has a “Play-Yan” Micro but not the “GBA GCN player”!? Enjoyed the video by the way.

0:27 We'll Be Right Back

I have the European version. It was my first MP3 player and I used it a hell of a lot back in the day. Oddly, the packaging says it will only work on the DS and not the GBA. But it works fine on GBA. Don’t know what that’s about. I was hoping it would play videos like the Japanese version as a sort of ‘unadvertised feature’. But no.

That was a real smooth opening. Great talk, this thing is impressive!

I literally thought this was gonna be about the Gameboy advance videos, that held cartoon episodes in cartridges

It was nice to learn about this obscure Nintendo product

If I ever got a hold of one of those carts then I would put an mp4 of Fortnite gameplay and pretend that I am playing the game just to screw with people's minds.

Wow, more obscure gba accessories, kinda puts into perspective of how much more are really out there. Awesome video AK ^^

I remember reading about this in the November 2005 issue of Tips & Tricks. It states that if you plug the Play-Yan into the DS you get more storage capacity.

1:36 I didn't even noticed that but that play yan minigame on GBA version was my favorite one.

Sent here by Scott The Woz. Great video

These are some pretty good videos, I like the narration a lot

I love obscure products like this! Thank you for making a video about it!

Seeing the people who don't get the reference is actually painful.

Scott sent me over, loved the video and subbed. Hope to see that gameboy camera video next :p

Yup. Over 2 years later I'm going to comment, because I got nostalgic and looked up some video, and came across this one. I have both, and I got them back in the day. Play-yan micro was simply available from asian webshops. I'd swear I ordered it from Yesasia back then, but order history doesn't show it.. But I ordered it from somewhere (unless I actually did go through the trouble of ordering it directly from Nintendo, but I can't imagine that. I don't read Japanese). There's actually a difference between the JP and EU version, this is why I got the "local" version in the first place, after already importing the JP version. EU version removed the video playback (which I didn't bother with since it was too much of a hassle), however it updated the support for SD cards with 2 GB capacity. Even that ended up being too small for my liking, so I upgraded later to an actual MP3 player that had 4GB memory, and was actually smaller than my micro. So even on release they weren't very practical, though now of course they're cute novelty collector's items. I still have both of them within reach, including their 1 and 2 GB SD cards I used for them (which are novelties themselves nowadays). Perhaps I'll use them again for fun. Edit: found it. Bought it from Playasia for $ 76.30 in 2007

Found you from Scott, damn dude nice quality and managing to talk about something I've literally never heard of. Keep up the good work and you definitely got a new sub!

I got mine from my local retro store for $60. I love it! Also this video really helped me with the video converter settings. Thanks. :)

your videos just keep getting better!

I've heard of the Play-Yan Micro even before this video. Not everyone can say that.

Great video as always, Ak!

This is indeed an obscure piece of hardware, thank you for sharing this.

Oh man I used to have that Nintendo MP3 player and I was taking that bad boy everywhere with me. Good times indeed.

Never thought I would see a Nintendo Direct being played in a GBA

Here from Scott the Woz, awesome video, you just earned yourself a sub!

Man. I remember hearing about this, how I’d never be able to get it, and ultimately settling for the dang old Datel Max Media Player for DS. Years later I just got an iPod, and then virtually all media devices were rendered obsolete by the smart phone haha

I had no idea this ever existed. Thank you! Now I want one. :)

That intro was so slick! This was certainly an interesting bit of Nintendo's history, shame it didn't blow up. It had so much potential!

something ive found btw, the Nintendo MP3 Player, the EU version of the play-yan, seems to support the full 2gb. its basically a stripped down play-yan micro with just music capabilities.

7:57 *Drifting Soul* man of culture

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I genuinely liked the opening to this video. Timing was dead on.

Never before did I ever think I would one day see a Nintendo Direct being displayed on a *FUCKING GAMEBOY* .

One of the most clever intros I've ever seen

Fantastic video!

Cool video man. I had never heard of this device shoutouts to Scott for the link

I need this. It looks awesome!

Thanks Scott

I got here from Super Mario Broth's Mario Oddysey Twitter post. Great stuff man!

now i want GBA Remix 6 on a Play-Yan

At least Play-Yan the mascot (whose species became a staple) lived on.

Very informative! I had never heard of this before lol

I remember picking up one of these back in 2010 on ebay for 80 bucks, i mean it was expensive and i really wanted an mp3 with my gameboy micro. I still have it till this day (2021) i got like 3 sd 1gb mini cards to change songs.

This is so cool, I want one!

This is really good! When's 1 million subscribers?

I’d really love to get one of those

That was actually a clever opening lol Well done.

I got one of the MP3 players for the game boy at a pawn shop when I was little. I had so much Tool and Mudvayne on SD card. I used this thing all the time

dude. play a mario odyssey video and pretend you're playing the game on this. fool people.

I love this video

Scott the Woz sent me here. This is great stuff, definitely subscribing

Me n the boys listening to karkalicious on our gbas

(Sees thumbnail) Dang-it I wanna play Rhythm Tengoku now.

Scott the Woz landed me here. Great content!

Dear god I need this now

nice work'

I in fact have one of the first ones. It’s somewhere in my Nintendo part of my attic. It came with the little Play Yan guy. And it had a mini SD adaptor to micro to mini sd card so it’s a micro sd to a mini sd to SD

the nintendo MP3 player is reeeeally common in europe, you see them on ebay and everywhere for as low as $10!

**hears Night Walk Music** YAAAAAAAHHHHHHH yay

The Adventures of Carlos Caterpillar / The Zula Patrol / Turbo Dogs on Play-Yan Micro

There should be a version of this video being played on a Play-Yan Micro

AK casually plays videos and music that came out way after the PYM on the PYM

I saw Drifting Soul in the player. Good choice

the compressed audio reminds me of flipnote studio

I've got one of these. I had a DS and my friend had a psp. To prove that the DS could be just as a multimedia device i paid about $70 AUD for a Play-yen from ebay. It worked but things looked like shit.

That’s so interesting

Has a rare super limited edition obscure Nintendo product. Doesn’t have arguably the most popular way to play GBA games.

Holy shit, I think one guy at my elemantary school had one of those. Always wondered what that thing was.

I imported a play yan when it came out. I loved it for the years I used it. Now I wonder what I did with it

I... had no idea this existed. And it's *THAT* obscure? Well I at least know where one of those equalizer displays on the 3DS Sound App comes from...

I had GBA video, (still have my only cart, even) so I’m fine with the audio *crunch*

I can't say anything about the Play-Yan Micro's "surround" feature since I don't have one, but I suspect it's the same basic tech as the "surround" options in Mario Kart DS and systemwide on the 3DS. On that it's a more or less standard "stereo widening" effect. It doesn't work with headphones, it's for speakers. The simple explanation is it adds part of a flipped version of each channel into the other channel, which can make hard-panned sounds seem to come from further to the side than where the speaker is. It's quite effective on the 3DS, making noises seem to come from a foot or two to one side or the other when the actual speakers are just a few inches apart. In normal stereo mode everything sounds like it's between the speakers -- which is why when setting up speakers you should place them as far apart as you can while still having yourself facing the center point between them.

My Play-Yan micro came from Nintendo JP in a simple brown box with no software. 🇨🇦🐧 There is a guide on how to use Linux to convert videos, but I can't find that URL at present 😔

I would LOVE to add one of these to my GBA collection! What's a decent going price for one of these at the moment? There are so few on eBay it's hard to tell!

Goddamn I (still) love my gameboy micro. I wish I had known about this thing when I was carrying it *everywhere* as a teenager, even if I would have had to import it.

i heard the nintendo mp3 player can also play videos in mp4 somehow but they did not add it in the firmware :( maybe there is a way to get the play-yan micro update file that let it play mp4 files to work on the nintendo mp3 player im told that the devices are the same devices but they took out mp4 playback ect

I remember this in the 3ds music app

Hey AKFamilyHome, Scott's fanbase here.

The Game Boy micro was the first Nintendo console that cab read SD cards 😮

There was one play yan micro on eBay that went on auction up to £22 (about $30 I think). I reckon it only sold so cheap because everyone tried to snipe it, annoying part is that I still haven't been able to figure out how the hell to get it to work and since it's Japanese I can't read the error messages

Came here from Scott The Woz. And you better do a video on the gameboy printer, cuz the gameboy printer looks awesome. I've heard and seen a bit of the gameboy printer, but a full video on it would be interesting to see

i FINNALY know what the 3ds sound thing is from!

total gamer moment

Be nice, and say thank you to Scott.

Thanks for the ear blasting dad ily

That intro was the best thing I've ever seen. Can AK have more subscribers than T-Series?

I commonly used him as my background in the 3ds voice recorder app