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.

 

[ArcaneCypher]

i converted over 50 various videos, movie and shows! they're all available to download on itch under the user "ArcaneCypher"

Post automatically merged: May 3, 2024

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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.

get 1.5.0 instead

 

[FireCubX]

Does anyone know an AVI converter that works with METEO that is NOT video-online-convert?? This website takes too long and also asks for money. Maybe something that can be downloaded?

 

[ArcaneCypher]

Does anyone know an AVI converter that works with METEO that is NOT video-online-convert?? This website takes too long and also asks for money. Maybe something that can be downloaded?

use veed dot io mp4 to mpeg online converter (google it). it works so much better when you convert it to mpeg instead of avi (despite the name being avi2gba)

 

[ArcaneCypher]

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