AM3 Brings Download Service To The DS

Posted by x3sphere on November 29, 2007 @ 7:48 pm


Back in the days of the Game Boy Advance, a company called AM3 released a flash card movie adapter for the handheld — which allowed users to playback video content on their GBA. Needless to say it didn’t take off, but the second time’s a charm right?

AM3 today unveiled DSvision, a download service that promises to bring comics, books, magazines, anime, movies, and television programs to Japanese Nintendo DS units. Similar to unofficial flash card solutions, users of the service will be able to download content onto a microSD flash card, through a special adapter unit which looks like any ordinary DS game card.

Fully licensed by Nintendo, the service will launch in March 2008, with a test run beginning in early January where testers will be able to purchase a 3,980 yen ($36) set consisting of the microSD adapter cartridge, a 512MB special microSD card, and a USB reader.

If this service is successful, then maybe we’ll see downloadable Game Boy games on DS? One can hope.

DS Gets Vision [Famitsu via IGN]

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Comments
icedman204 says:

There are already other NDS carts with the same technology. Its called the Supercard/M3/R4, just use homebrew u can play movies. Yeah those are illigal carts but watch that AM3 could easily get hacked and become a device to load illigally d/l'ed nds games, that's with using a LEGIT device backed by Nintendo.

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