Tell me about the Nintendo GBA E-Reader...

keithsarcade

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...I've had one of these for awhile and always wondered how it acually works. I'm assuming the games are built into it and the card swiping is just a gimmick to unlock the games, or is it something else? Can I print cards for this thing? Any online sources? Found mine at a yard sale years ago (no cards) and it has DK Jr. on it but nothing else.
 
I am pretty sure they had actual code on them.

You need something like 8 cards to play a NES game.
 
It was used for playing some NES games on the GBA. Also used in conjunction with games to unlock special items and whatnot, but I think due to the fact that it flopped pretty hard the only USA title that utilized it was the first DS Animal Crossing.

Think I've still got a sealed one with the DK Jr. card pack in my mother's garage somewhere. Used to also have most of the card packs, but think I got rid of them.

All in all it was a turd lol. Scanning like 8 bar code cards to load NES DK Jr. into RAM (data lives until you turn off the system only IIRC) is pretty lame. A better investment at the time would have been a GBA Flash product to pirate the NES Classic series or install an emulator. :D
 
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High in the cool factor.
Low in the usability and commercial viability factor.

GOD BLESS NINTENDO.


PS: I don't get the point of QR codes.
 
Remeber the Radioshack Q-Cat?

It was going to revolutionize marketing.

LULZ....

At least the scanners can easily be hacked into dummy bardcode scanners.
 
Remeber the Radioshack Q-Cat?

It was going to revolutionize marketing.

LULZ....

At least the scanners can easily be hacked into dummy bardcode scanners.

Yeah, I had one. Didn't work very well. I recently bought my girlfriend a nice barcode scanner off Amazon. $35 and it's totally awesome.
 
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