Could You Put A Movie On A Famicom/NES Cart?

[okame]

Just wondering, but if someone knew what they were doing, would it be possible to put a movie on a Famicom/NES cart? Could the carts or the systems handle it? For example, say I found 2 versions of an Anime based game, and I knew someone who could put a few episodes of the show on one of the carts. Theoretically, could it be done? I just want to know if it's possible.

[133MHz]

This is the closest I can think of.

[L___E___T]

When you say put a movie on - what exactly do you mean?  Moving pictures with speech and subtitles?

[80sFREAK]

2 okame you should read this first.

[jpx72]

Don't forget about the "Bad apple!!"
That's the best "movie" I ever saw on Famicom! Now available for Gameboy too!

[Cheetahmen]

I think the closest you're going to get to a movie in a NES game is the Freedom Force intro.

[80sFREAK]

Don't forget about the "Bad apple!!"
That's the best "movie" I ever saw on Famicom!

Nice demo, but i don't think sound is 2A03

[Nightstar699]

The opening to Pooyan, now that's where it's at.

[michaelthegreat]

No, there's not enough space or processing power to uncompress. If I remember correctly, the largest official US release was Kirby at 0.75 megabyte. Space was expensive, kinda how a few years back even a 1GB flash drive was expensive.  And lots of games were so much smaller than Kirby! SMB was 0.40MB and SMB3 was something like 0.25MB.

Now even if you could stuff a small video in that space, the NES isn't fast enough to decompress video. There are other issues with the tile based system and more, but the short answer is not possible for anything meaningful.

Here is an example of how it has happened on the snes with a fancy flash cart with a 850MB game (where the largest released games were 6mb and only two were that big):
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/fmv-support-comes-to-the-super-nintendo-with-an-unofficial-playable-port-of-laserdiscs-road-avenger.html

The only cartridge game I can think of that had fmv to any meaningful level was resident evil 2 for the N64 and it was 48MB in size.
http://emuconsoleexploitnews.blogspot.com/2011/04/achieving-full-motion-video-on-nintendo.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080331015735/http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20001004/meynink_01.htm

Even those gameboy advance video carts were at most 32MB for up to 90 minutes of video--and you've probably seen how crappy that video is!

[treismac]

Wow.  I have to say that I absolutely loved those two NES/Famicom videos.  Does anyone know of any similar video roms to those on the Famicom/NES, or any other worthwhile non-video game roms/programs?

[VinylDracula]

hahaha absolutely not. Maybe if it was a 10 second long clip transferred into 8 bit pixels...

[jpx72]

Wow.  I have to say that I absolutely loved those two NES/Famicom videos.  Does anyone know of any similar video roms to those on the Famicom/NES, or any other worthwhile non-video game roms/programs?

Well the demo-scene produced a lot of similar things for various systems, just browse http://pouet.net/ and other similar places (http://www.scene.org/dir.php).

[treismac]

Wow.  I have to say that I absolutely loved those two NES/Famicom videos.  Does anyone know of any similar video roms to those on the Famicom/NES, or any other worthwhile non-video game roms/programs?

Well the demo-scene produced a lot of similar things for various systems, just browse http://pouet.net/ and other similar places (http://www.scene.org/dir.php).

Thanks for the links!