Talk:GBA Movie Player

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For gods sake, are you all insane! wikipedia is an encyclopedia. i have never read an encyclopedia in my life that has the phrase built like this: "an email from M3 stated that the Pro versions cannot play GBA ROMs over 32m- so one would conclude that it can play GBA games up to 32Mb (32 MegaBit = 4MB) or less; but there aren't a whole lot of these around..." please note the three dots at the end. a wikipedia article, or any encyclopedic article, should never, EVER speak in such casual tones. it must be formal and to the point and "their aren't many of these around..." is not formal. a more appropriate way of saying it is:" not many units were produced". it gives the same message, but it sounds much nicer than slang.Wikiencyclopedia.com 00:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't think this article should be in Wikipedia at all. "GBA Movie Player" is a comercial product for sale, this page seems to be a poorly written and disorganized advertisement for the product. It is not about playing movies on the Game Boy Advance, as the title seems to suggest. Olivermoffat 18:04, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

I disagree, as it's somewhat notable (since it is one of the most popular tools for homebrew development on the GBA and especially the Nintendo DS). - furrykef (Talk at me) 18:57, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

And it does play movies. CrossEyed7 23:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Furrykef. It has been popular enough that many homebrew developments have been based on its design. The fact that this device is no longer made suggests that this is not just blatant advertisement. Retrometro 23:11, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

It is still made, but I do agree with you that it isn't an advertisement. No one is listing places to buy them in the article at the moment. Wouldn't much of Wikipedia be considered an advertisement if you defined an advertisement as an article about a commericial product? Codemastercb 21:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)