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And if Wikipedia is to be believed it's presented in a eye wateringly high resolution of 112p.

This high of res.

Edit: Of course the bit rate was pretty damn low as well. Here's a comparison video I found. This comparison uses the higher bit rate version from the Shrek GBA video cart not the Shrek+Shark Tale video cart though so keep in mind, this is the better version.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Not gonna lie, 112p video is actually kinda amazing for a gameboy advanced cartridge. I dunno how much space that'd take up, but I'd bet it's more than your typical GBA cart.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

They also ran at a much lower frame rate and compressed the audio quite a bit

Basically they had to fit both movies in less than 64MB.

[–] prayer 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair, we still do a similar thing with movies today when we want to send them on discord, crunching it down to 25-50MB

[–] Raxiel 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wasn't expecting to watch Tremors while sitting on the toilet this evening but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That makes two of us

[–] Raxiel 4 points 1 year ago

Careful, they can sense movement

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