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[wulfie]

Well guys, I hate to say it, but I'm ditching my supercard.  I've got an ez-flash II 1Gb that plays damn near anything I throw at it so I'm now looking at the GBA SP movie player.  Its cheaper and updated alot more often than the supercard.  It seems that's what Romman stole the idea from anyhow.  And it also seems that he's the ONLY one working on the game patches and firmware, of which there hasn't been an update for quite some time.  I highly doubt we'll ever see FAT32 support for the supercard cause even the Movie Player guys haven't figured that one out yet.

[NT]

Do you plan on using the Movie Advance for movies or games?  I heard that it can only load really small ROMs, but I forget what the maximum size is.

Also, if FAT32 support is so hard to implement, why not just ditch that idea altogether and have the Supercard firmware just read the ROM header names for the file list and leave it at that?  

I do have to say though that the Supercard will die if the compatibility issues are not fixed and updates continue at such a slow pace.

[wulfie]

I already have an ezflash II which I'll use for my games so I'll use the movie player for what it was designed for, playing movies.  It seems that the supercard is an idea that is going to slowly die out since romman has been so slow with the updates.  Personally I think it shouldn't have been released until at least 95% of the games work.  It was a good idea, just not very well planned unforunately.

[PharaohAmps]

I've been thus far unimpressed with movie playback on both the Supercard and the GBA Movie Player.  I'd much rather have the Nintendo Playan (they changed the name again,) which has a dedicated hardware MPEG4 decompressor.  The GBA-MP and Supercard can only play back video that has been specially encoded for them, and only at fairly low bitrates.  The Playan can play back full motion video at 30 fps, and will get better battery life due to its use of SD/MMC memory cards.  I bought a Supercard for its gaming abilities, and I think it does a fine job at that.  Does it play all the games?  No.  But neither did my XG1 128 when I first bought it.  Time will tell if the Supercard's compatibility will improve.

[win2000b]

i like my supercard. Plays most games I want. Only a few it wont play :| But if they dont work then i'll just choose another out of the other s that do.......

So much choice.