Hacking Guide - How to convert YouTube videos to Game Boy Advance ROM files

[Jonathdos]

someone can make me a video for gba i would do it but i can't i'm on android

 

[Shadow#1]

someone can make me a video for gba i would do it but i can't i'm on android

Huh?

 

[Jonathdos]

Huh?

that if someone I can transform a video for a Game Boy Advance

 

[metaColin]

There's also a far easier way to get the video onto the cart - No need to upload videos to some online converter or any of that, just use ffmpeg to resize, convert and even split the video into bite size pieces ready for Meteo to digest. Super quick and convenient. I can post a video guide if there's any demand for it

Did you ever make such a guide? Or even could just you post an example of an optimal FFMPEG command line arg for mp4 to avi. Doing this from FFMPEG would be soo nice, I understand the wrapper has to be AVI but I'm unclear on the required audio and video encoding.

I just ordered a Joey Jr for the express purpose of making some video carts. I am super excited.

 

[Crc47]

Does anyone know if the video will repeat automatically at the end? or if I could use a .gif to get it to repeat basically forever?

Also Has anyone tried with any other gameboys. like the earlier Gameboy Color?

 

[Wavy]

Does anyone know if the video will repeat automatically at the end?

Yeah, it just loops.

 

[Bitl]

Hi, I recently figured out a way to bypass the 32mb limit specified by Meteo. This means that users can render higher quality videos at the expense of cartridge compatibility. The resolution limit has been disabled too, meaning that you can also specify a lower resolution than the minimum. I wrote up a guide on how to do it below, and provided the patch file and the modified exe in my own forked repo. I have also sent a pull request to the original repo posted in the OP for people who want to check it out.

Hi, I would like to suggest a modification that can be done to the Meteo application that disables the minimum resolution limit and the maximum file limit.
Note that this will result in most roms not being able to be fit in a normal GBA cart, but these can be fit in a flash cart.

How to modify:
1. Download x64dbg
2. Go through the setup and choose x32dbg.
3. Drag and drop the original Meteo140EN.exe into x32dbg, and then press F9.
4. Click on "Find Strings" (the button that has a capital A and a lowercase z). This will redirect you to the "References" tab, where you can see all the strings.
5. Double click on the "ROM is bigger than 32MB(256Mbit)" string.
6. Double click on the jbe right above the string and chance the jbe to jmp. Click OK.
7. Go back to the References tab and click on the "Resolution is too small." string.
8. Above that, there should be a je, double click on that and cahnge it to a jmp.
9. Now we are done patching. Go to File > Patch File and in the "Patches" menu, click "Patch File". Save the file wherever, just try to save it as an exe file!
10. After saving, you should be able to run the application without any limits.

Included in this pull request is a *.1337 patch file usable in x32dbg, which allows you to quickly modify the application without needing to do the above.
Just open x32dbg, drag and drop the exe file into it, and open up the "Patches" within File > Patch File menu, then click Import. Browse to where you downloaded the patch file, then open it. Then all you would need to do at that point is click on "Patch File", and save the file to wherever.

 

[Wavy]

Hi, I recently figured out a way to bypass the 32mb limit specified by Meteo. This means that users can render higher quality videos at the expense of cartridge compatibility. The resolution limit has been disabled too, meaning that you can also specify a lower resolution than the minimum. I wrote up a guide on how to do it below, and provided the patch file and the modified exe in my own forked repo. I have also sent a pull request to the original repo posted in the OP for people who want to check it out.

Nice. I guess it's time to fit the entirety of Tenet onto a singular GBA cart in HD.

 

[Bitl]

Nice. I guess it's time to fit the entirety of Tenet onto a singular GBA cart in HD.

Possibly. I wouldn't doubt that to be possible. There's only so far you can go with a flash cart though.

 

[GValiente]

Hi, I recently figured out a way to bypass the 32mb limit specified by Meteo. This means that users can render higher quality videos at the expense of cartridge compatibility. The resolution limit has been disabled too, meaning that you can also specify a lower resolution than the minimum. I wrote up a guide on how to do it below, and provided the patch file and the modified exe in my own forked repo. I have also sent a pull request to the original repo posted in the OP for people who want to check it out.

Buuut... do Meteo roms bigger than 32MB work on a real GBA?

That 32MB limit specified by Meteo is there because the GBA doesn't support roms bigger than 32MB without bank switching.

 

[Bitl]

Buuut... do Meteo roms bigger than 32MB work on a real GBA?

That 32MB limit specified by Meteo is there because the GBA doesn't support roms bigger than 32MB without bank switching.

I'm not sure. I hope it'll work with a flash cart without much modification, but these larger roms will work fine in a emulator.

 

[Blakejansen]

Why would someone want to do this

 

[GValiente]

I'm not sure. I hope it'll work with a flash cart without much modification, but these larger roms will work fine in a emulator.

Why should it work in an emulator?
If it is good enough, it should do the same as the real hardware (not working).

Why haven't you tried it yet, on an emulator at least?

 

[DanTheManMS]

I'll have to check this out in a few hours when I have more time. The problem though, as others stated, is that the 32MB limit is there for a reason. I don't know how I would ever get this to work on real hardware. Well, at least not with the hardware I have.

My Supercard MiniSD only has 32MB of RAM to run GBA files with, so that's out. And while my F2AU cart has 128MB of space on it (1Gbit), I don't think the flashing software would know how to handle a single *.gba file larger than 32MB at a time.

The only cartridge I can think it might even possibly work on would be the X-Rom 512Mbit cartridge (64 MBytes) which advertised that it could use all 512Mbits for a very special version of Pogoshell, and even that came with limitations like, only the first half could contain actual GBA files while the last half could only contain media files, or something like that.

 

[Titney]

The EZ-Flash Omega Definitive Edition supports the official 512Mb video roms, but for something like meteos to work with that, I would think that it would need to implement the same mapper the official video roms use.

 

[Sterophonick]

The EZ-Flash Omega Definitive Edition supports the official 512Mb video roms, but for something like meteos to work with that, I would think that it would need to implement the same mapper the official video roms use.

ding ding ding we have a winner

 

[gibtwg]

There's also a far easier way to get the video onto the cart - No need to upload videos to some online converter or any of that, just use ffmpeg to resize, convert and even split the video into bite size pieces ready for Meteo to digest. Super quick and convenient. I can post a video guide if there's any demand for it

I'd really like to see this too!

 

[xhahaya]

I'd really like to see this too!

Yeah, I always find it unreliable cause it rejects my video input with an "Error 4", would be much better to have a consistent ffmpeg command!

 

[DARKFIRE2221]

I get this error when I try to do this:
Input File Error
No combination of intermediate filters could be found to make the connection.
I wanna try to get this thing up and running, but I've been getting no luck so far. That is the exact same thing it says when I do it, I used the file converter that was posted.

 

[samsamsamsam]

Hey hello there !

Just found the topic,

I've got troubles, I'm always getting Input File Error (4)

I used the online converted specified into .avi, also setted the codec into msmpeg

Any help ?