Full motion video on the Nintendo DS

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Full motion video on the Nintendo DS

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Over the week, I tried experimenting finding a way to get full-motion video on the DS. After a few days, I managed to find a method that DID NOT require using a codec, and managed to display a few seconds of three of Juice Wrld's music videos for his first album, Goodbye & Good Riddance. In order to achieve this, I had to assign 128kb of VRAM to the top side of the screen.

The way it works is that each video is basically split into 12 blocks. Each block is a spritesheet containing 64x64...

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