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Play-Yan Micro with MediaStage 4.2 for Nintendo
Product Features
Japanese language product
Playback MPEG4 videos and MP3 music from SD memory cards
Supports VBR and allows playback of MP3 files with bit rates of 32-320kbps
Description
This Play-Yan Micro with MediaStage 4.2 for Nintendo movie adapter lets the handhelds play back MPEG-4 video (ASF format files) and MP3 audio files from SD memory cards. It comes with the original software "MediaStage Ver.4.2 for Nintendo" for converting movie files into the right format.
Please note that you need special video encoding and PC skills to convert movie files into the right ASF/MPEG4 format or to get the Japanese software working on a non-Japanese Windows PC.
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1 x Play-Yan Micro with MediaStage 4.2 for Nintendo
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 19 September, 2005. |
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 – Exscefan Belkin, 02/07/2007
As for the Play-yan Micro, itself, all I can say is... wow! Through the use of an SD card, it allows you to store MP3 music and MP4 movies onto any Nintendo handheld capable of playing a GBA game. Before ordering this, I owned the GBA Movie Player, and although this lacks the ability to store pictures, text files, and freeware games, it is still the better of the two in terms of rewinding/fast-forwarding capabilities and it also gives you the ability to actually repeat a particularly desirable song, without having you manually do it yourself through the use of A-B repeat.
The sound is quite loud and clear when listening to music through its built-in head/earphone jack, although, when it comes to motion picture audio, the sound can be somewhat low and warbly.
The only things that really prevent me from giving it that fifth star is the fact that part of the picture on the top and bottom of the screen is cut off after the film is played back and every so often, one will encounter somewhat of a "ghosting" effect a la the Datel Max Media Player. Furthermore, there does not seem to be a way to switch back and forth between the Mario and Mr. Game & Watch themes. That is, once you switch to the Mario theme, there is no way to switch back. Moreover, I have also found that if you don't press "b" long enough, then after a film has played through its entirety, you can still press the "b" button to stop it, but everything freezes and it will not let you go back, thus forcing you to restart the handheld or reset the GC console.
In spite of its slight imperfections, if I had to choose between this and then NOT having portable handheld access at all to the movies that I like, then I would definitely choose this over that any day. As I stated earlier, my American GameCube is now a Panasonic Q, that is, a GameCube capable of playing actual audio CDs and DVDs, which, sadly, was never released outside of Japan. Beyond that, I can use either my GBA SP or Nintendo DS as a pseudo-portable CD player and as long as the storage space on the SD card is large enough, those days of switching DVD (or CD) discs and having to skip chapters to get to a menu are finally over. |
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 – James Schappert, 06/23/2006
The Play-Yan is a great player, but the Media Stage is crap. Just use Nero Recode 2. Make sure the digital Profile is set to "Portable". Screen resolution needs to be 240x160, and bitrate set to 500kbps for great quality movies and videos at a small file size. Don't set the sound quality over 64kbps, or it won't play the mp4 file. |
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– Mark Bassett, 05/25/2006
This gadget is simply amazing! I plugged into my DS and it "just worked" (tm). You don't need to know any Japanese, all the on-screen text is in English, and the controls are simple to use. You can store your .mp3 files in folders, so they're easy to find, and all the play modes are there. (Repeat one, repeat all, repeat shuffle and straight-through.) Sound quality through the headphone jack is excellent.
Videos have to be stored in the top directory of the SD card - it's important to get the resolution and file format right, I converted mine using QuickTime Pro.
For the benefit of other Macintosh users these are the settings I used:
Export to MPEG-4, the "Improved" format, with a data rate of 1024, frame rate of 29.97 and image size of 256 x 192.
I now have practically as good as a Video iPod that takes up no space in my pocket! (Because, hey, I was going to be carrying the DS no matter what :)) |
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