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

[hitfan]

I converted some old 1960s Spider-Man cartoon episodes yesterday. I tried to convert 25 of them, but only 16 worked properly (9 of them had video-audio sync issues or the sound would cut out completely about a quarter of the way through--the latter issue occurring only on the longer videos). For the 10 minute « half episodes » I encoded it at 8fps and 46KBps and for the 20 minute « full episodes » I encoded it at 5fps and 18KBps. I used a resolution of 214 by 160 (which is 4:3). I used no filtering because I found that the chances of having a good file were better that way. All of the episodes use close to 32MB in file size.

I didn’t have to use gbafix.exe as the resulting ROMs work fine on my Everdrive. *** EDIT but I ended up doing that because they wouldn’t work on my 3DS (in AGB FIRM).

 

[NumberOneToastFan]

So i tried convert TaDC, it won't work, actaully all video longer than 15 mins wont work it justs shows this

 

[TonioGela]

So, has anyone succeeded in converting a video to a format that meteo reads well using ffmpeg?
I've tried a lot of both manual and automatic conversion methods, to either avi or mpeg like:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -output.avi
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mpeg
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v mpeg1video -c:a mp2 output.mpg

but I'm always getting an input file error #80040217.
Also, does meteo have any required dependency? I'm running it in a windows 10 bottle, that's why I'm asking.

 

[NumberOneToastFan]

pls i need to

Post automatically merged: Feb 9, 2024

So i tried convert TaDC, it won't work, actaully all video longer than 15 mins wont work it justs shows this
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pls i need to

 

[ManyMilesAway]

Hey there, I'm getting this vague message from Windows (11) when I try to run either Meteo or gbafix. Changing the compatibility mode didn't do anything either, anyone else run into this?

*edit, just tried on my Windows 10 machine and it didn't work either.