UPDATE: If you're interested in an unscripted followup, I recently obtained a complete copy of the ORIGINAL Play-Yan model, and unboxed it over on my Plus channel below! th-cam.com/video/bC2R7takt6Q/w-d-xo.html Hi! 2020 me here to inform you that past me was a dunce and 2:06 is wrong, the Play-Yan Micro shares the exact same size and appearance as the original aside from the label.
If I ever got a hold of one of those carts then I would put an mp4 of Fortnite gameplay and pretend that I am playing the game just to screw with people's minds.
You can get a gba flash cart, download avi2gba or whatever on a windows xp or something computer and drop a video file into the program and drop it on the cart
I have the European version. It was my first MP3 player and I used it a hell of a lot back in the day. Oddly, the packaging says it will only work on the DS and not the GBA. But it works fine on GBA. Don’t know what that’s about. I was hoping it would play videos like the Japanese version as a sort of ‘unadvertised feature’. But no.
Man this must’ve been so cool back before our phone became an all in one music player phone game machine. So cool to see an in depth look at this obscure little guy
I remember reading about this in the November 2005 issue of Tips & Tricks. It states that if you plug the Play-Yan into the DS you get more storage capacity.
I've got one of these. I had a DS and my friend had a psp. To prove that the DS could be just as a multimedia device i paid about $70 AUD for a Play-yen from ebay. It worked but things looked like shit.
Man. I remember hearing about this, how I’d never be able to get it, and ultimately settling for the dang old Datel Max Media Player for DS. Years later I just got an iPod, and then virtually all media devices were rendered obsolete by the smart phone haha
Yup. Over 2 years later I'm going to comment, because I got nostalgic and looked up some video, and came across this one. I have both, and I got them back in the day. Play-yan micro was simply available from asian webshops. I'd swear I ordered it from Yesasia back then, but order history doesn't show it.. But I ordered it from somewhere (unless I actually did go through the trouble of ordering it directly from Nintendo, but I can't imagine that. I don't read Japanese). There's actually a difference between the JP and EU version, this is why I got the "local" version in the first place, after already importing the JP version. EU version removed the video playback (which I didn't bother with since it was too much of a hassle), however it updated the support for SD cards with 2 GB capacity. Even that ended up being too small for my liking, so I upgraded later to an actual MP3 player that had 4GB memory, and was actually smaller than my micro. So even on release they weren't very practical, though now of course they're cute novelty collector's items. I still have both of them within reach, including their 1 and 2 GB SD cards I used for them (which are novelties themselves nowadays). Perhaps I'll use them again for fun. Edit: found it. Bought it from Playasia for $ 76.30 in 2007
something ive found btw, the Nintendo MP3 Player, the EU version of the play-yan, seems to support the full 2gb. its basically a stripped down play-yan micro with just music capabilities.
i heard the nintendo mp3 player can also play videos in mp4 somehow but they did not add it in the firmware :( maybe there is a way to get the play-yan micro update file that let it play mp4 files to work on the nintendo mp3 player im told that the devices are the same devices but they took out mp4 playback ect
...huh. That has better video quality than the Game Boy Player version of Shrek. ...or the Game Boy Player version of anything, for that matter. No choppy frame rates. ...wait, this was released in Europe?
There was one play yan micro on eBay that went on auction up to £22 (about $30 I think). I reckon it only sold so cheap because everyone tried to snipe it, annoying part is that I still haven't been able to figure out how the hell to get it to work and since it's Japanese I can't read the error messages
I would LOVE to add one of these to my GBA collection! What's a decent going price for one of these at the moment? There are so few on eBay it's hard to tell!
Found you from Scott, damn dude nice quality and managing to talk about something I've literally never heard of. Keep up the good work and you definitely got a new sub!
This would work on the DS wouldn't it , so I don't see how the DS would have affected it's sales if anything it should have boosted them, just IMO. Great 👍 videos man thanks for making them, keep it up & have a great day! ,😁
My Play-Yan micro came from Nintendo JP in a simple brown box with no software. 🇨🇦🐧 There is a guide on how to use Linux to convert videos, but I can't find that URL at present 😔
I can't say anything about the Play-Yan Micro's "surround" feature since I don't have one, but I suspect it's the same basic tech as the "surround" options in Mario Kart DS and systemwide on the 3DS. On that it's a more or less standard "stereo widening" effect. It doesn't work with headphones, it's for speakers. The simple explanation is it adds part of a flipped version of each channel into the other channel, which can make hard-panned sounds seem to come from further to the side than where the speaker is. It's quite effective on the 3DS, making noises seem to come from a foot or two to one side or the other when the actual speakers are just a few inches apart. In normal stereo mode everything sounds like it's between the speakers -- which is why when setting up speakers you should place them as far apart as you can while still having yourself facing the center point between them.
I found it actually strange that nintendo first came out with their gba video series and then came up with their play ya-yan adaptor for the gba,as if they were saying ‘you don’t need to have those video cartrides because now you can drag & drop those videos triugh our software onto the play-yan cart,i also found it strange that it has it’s own headphone jack out,well if nintendo wasn’t that comfident with the gba sound,then why didn’t they designed the play-yan with the DS in mind for better sound,also you might think that using the play-yan is ment to experience your content in gba perspective and so using it’s headphone jack pretty much defeats the purpose of this device i guess,am mean if i want to per se have crystall clear audio, i might as well using a regular portible media player or mp3 player.
Just got one of these (I live in the UK) and can't get videos working, this is the EU model so I'm not sure if they kept Mpeg-4 playback in that. if they removed it I'll be really annoyed
ok ol up did the ak from the play yan died who was he and why was he here,?? the lore keeps building itself. just kidding, great video, i love to hear about some strange stuff ive never seen
Could anyone explain why someone would name their accessory with an obscure name from an obscure character from an obscure Japan only game that is from a decently hard game that most wouldn't get to the minigame that he appears?
Why isnt there something like this on the switch?its 2 years old so it looks like Nintendo arent going to update the switch to a decent multimedia device....
> The secret mode on the Smash Ultimate menu is blurred
> Play Yan Micro blurs the hell out of videos
GUYS
G U Y S
G. U. Y. S
I get it
Holy s**t now we just need is Mike jones
Scott here.?
wha? didn't you know?
it's one of wario's greatest achievement, wario land 4!
Play-Yan for Smash!
RelaxAlax
Just imagine if that actually happens. I would love to see people’s reactions.
Do a video on mario baseball because it's the only other sport left
@RelaxAlex , what does Cat think of your opinion?
Relaxalax you thiccbih
Oof
dude. play a mario odyssey video and pretend you're playing the game on this. fool people.
*Brilliant*
GENIUS
Great
Play-Yan: I love music. (Runs away from Emily, up the stairs.)
And imagine the kids believing it
Came from ScottTheWoz, stayed for the quality content ❤️
I came from The Rhythm League.
Wow it has a headphone jack!?
Apple take notes!!
Gameboy Advanced SP didn't have one tho.
Wait, my bad. Didn't get that far into tbe video.
*Iphone doesn't have a headphone jack*
**GBA CARTRIDGE DOES** 💯
That Dumb Channel lol
Playan does what applendont
Imagine how much even more obscure this would be if not for that Rhythm Heaven minigame.
Which one?
@@Karthikkun2805 It's called Night Walk and features the very same li'l dude
@@lrgogo1517 lemme guess the dreams of our generation minigame?
@@Karthikkun2805 technically it's from gba, dreams of our generation on wii was directly inspired by night walk
Can’t wait to watch Infinity War on this
Can't wait to watch Endgame on this
Ham Khan cant wait to watch spongebob on this
Pizzatime! Then that’s no different from Game Boy Advance Video
Cant wait to watch the entire Shrek Movie in it!
@@ElementalAer there is a Shrek GBA video
The fact that play-Yan was both in the 3ds sound visualizer and rhythm heaven makes this even cooler.
Kinda sad we didn’t get this overseas..
The GBA was region free
UPDATE: If you're interested in an unscripted followup, I recently obtained a complete copy of the ORIGINAL Play-Yan model, and unboxed it over on my Plus channel below!
th-cam.com/video/bC2R7takt6Q/w-d-xo.html
Hi! 2020 me here to inform you that past me was a dunce and 2:06 is wrong, the Play-Yan Micro shares the exact same size and appearance as the original aside from the label.
Ogey
How many music/video files can you put on the Play-Yan Micro before you reach the 1GB limit, just wondering.
Wh-
Why did you own a virtual boy AND a play yan micro before a gameboy player or even a gamecube?!
0:47 HKD?
*wait*
YOOOOOOO
A FELLOW RHYTHM HEAVEN FAN FROM HK? GUESS ITS NOT ALL THAT UNLIKELY
If I ever got a hold of one of those carts then I would put an mp4 of Fortnite gameplay and pretend that I am playing the game just to screw with people's minds.
This is Gold. Mind. Blown. (0-0)
i wanna see proof 😂😂
Skyrim.
People wouldn't be too surprised.
You can get a gba flash cart, download avi2gba or whatever on a windows xp or something computer and drop a video file into the program and drop it on the cart
Imagine gta5
Who the heck has a “Play-Yan” Micro but not the “GBA GCN player”!?
Enjoyed the video by the way.
Or a gamecube
Play-Yan: I love music. (Runs away from Emily, up the stairs.)
I have the European version. It was my first MP3 player and I used it a hell of a lot back in the day. Oddly, the packaging says it will only work on the DS and not the GBA. But it works fine on GBA. Don’t know what that’s about.
I was hoping it would play videos like the Japanese version as a sort of ‘unadvertised feature’. But no.
When I saw the memory card with a memory card with a memory card with a memory card, “YEAH BOI”
What
I've always wanted one of these. It's nice to see Play-Yan make a cameo on the 3DS Music app visualizer.
0:27
We'll
Be
Right
Back
Doo da da deh deh dough.
**compressed on a Play-Yan**
Seeing the people who don't get the reference is actually painful.
To what?
The little engine that could
@@krugbug oof
Who didnt get it? Lol
Play-Yan: I love music. (Runs away from everyone, up the stairs.)
Sent here by Scott The Woz. Great video
😑
😀 hey y'all
Hey all!
what the fuck was the video?!
I love it when TH-camrs cover obscure pieces of tech like this and bring so much information about it to light.
I literally thought this was gonna be about the Gameboy advance videos, that held cartoon episodes in cartridges
Man this must’ve been so cool back before our phone became an all in one music player phone game machine. So cool to see an in depth look at this obscure little guy
Its cool that they actually added play yan in tengoku and remastered him in megamix
That was a real smooth opening. Great talk, this thing is impressive!
Danominator
Play-Yan: I love music. (Runs away from Emily, up the stairs.)
@@emily012804 plz stop
It was nice to learn about this obscure Nintendo product
Here from Scott the Woz. He shouted you out on a community post
Same
I've heard of the Play-Yan Micro even before this video.
Not everyone can say that.
Scott sent me over, loved the video and subbed. Hope to see that gameboy camera video next :p
At least Play-Yan the mascot (whose species became a staple) lived on.
Wow, more obscure gba accessories, kinda puts into perspective of how much more are really out there. Awesome video AK ^^
I remember reading about this in the November 2005 issue of Tips & Tricks. It states that if you plug the Play-Yan into the DS you get more storage capacity.
Like only if it's used in the ds? Or like you unlock space for any other device?
1:36 I didn't even noticed that but that play yan minigame on GBA version was my favorite one.
I've got one of these. I had a DS and my friend had a psp. To prove that the DS could be just as a multimedia device i paid about $70 AUD for a Play-yen from ebay. It worked but things looked like shit.
Man. I remember hearing about this, how I’d never be able to get it, and ultimately settling for the dang old Datel Max Media Player for DS. Years later I just got an iPod, and then virtually all media devices were rendered obsolete by the smart phone haha
I love obscure products like this! Thank you for making a video about it!
Hey AKFamilyHome, Scott's fanbase here.
Yup. Over 2 years later I'm going to comment, because I got nostalgic and looked up some video, and came across this one.
I have both, and I got them back in the day. Play-yan micro was simply available from asian webshops. I'd swear I ordered it from Yesasia back then, but order history doesn't show it.. But I ordered it from somewhere (unless I actually did go through the trouble of ordering it directly from Nintendo, but I can't imagine that. I don't read Japanese).
There's actually a difference between the JP and EU version, this is why I got the "local" version in the first place, after already importing the JP version. EU version removed the video playback (which I didn't bother with since it was too much of a hassle), however it updated the support for SD cards with 2 GB capacity.
Even that ended up being too small for my liking, so I upgraded later to an actual MP3 player that had 4GB memory, and was actually smaller than my micro.
So even on release they weren't very practical, though now of course they're cute novelty collector's items. I still have both of them within reach, including their 1 and 2 GB SD cards I used for them (which are novelties themselves nowadays). Perhaps I'll use them again for fun.
Edit: found it. Bought it from Playasia for $ 76.30 in 2007
I genuinely liked the opening to this video. Timing was dead on.
I got mine from my local retro store for $60. I love it!
Also this video really helped me with the video converter settings. Thanks. :)
You lucky sob they sell over 100
Apple copied no headphone jack from the gba sp
TBF they dont copy as much as other companies imo
A wet Loli username checks out
No u
something ive found btw, the Nintendo MP3 Player, the EU version of the play-yan, seems to support the full 2gb. its basically a stripped down play-yan micro with just music capabilities.
Never thought I would see a Nintendo Direct being played in a GBA
now i want GBA Remix 6 on a Play-Yan
Me n the boys listening to karkalicious on our gbas
Never before did I ever think I would one day see a Nintendo Direct being displayed on a *FUCKING GAMEBOY* .
i heard the nintendo mp3 player can also play videos in mp4 somehow but they did not add it in the firmware :( maybe there is a way to get the play-yan micro update file that let it play mp4 files to work on the nintendo mp3 player
im told that the devices are the same devices but they took out mp4 playback ect
Did you ever find out?
If anyone finds out please let us know :)
...huh. That has better video quality than the Game Boy Player version of Shrek. ...or the Game Boy Player version of anything, for that matter. No choppy frame rates.
...wait, this was released in Europe?
That is if you get that 2 in 1 Shrek/ *forgets movie name* thing.
Oh man I used to have that Nintendo MP3 player and I was taking that bad boy everywhere with me. Good times indeed.
**hears Night Walk Music**
YAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
yay
the nintendo MP3 player is reeeeally common in europe, you see them on ebay and everywhere for as low as $10!
(Sees thumbnail)
Dang-it I wanna play Rhythm Tengoku now.
Superstar Yoshi
I agree with ya there.
Play-Yan: I love music. (Runs away from Emily, up the stairs.)
Damn I had a chance to buy the nintendo mp3 player years ago but didnt =(
Is it worth getting a Gameboy Micro in 2018?
I got one in 2019. It's a fun little machine, beautiful screen resolution, and changeable faceplates!
The prices are only going up I say yes
7:57 *Drifting Soul* man of culture
I... had no idea this existed. And it's *THAT* obscure? Well I at least know where one of those equalizer displays on the 3DS Sound App comes from...
Has a rare super limited edition obscure Nintendo product.
Doesn’t have arguably the most popular way to play GBA games.
No, he has a GBA
The DS.
I want a time machine so that I can play Rhythm Tengoku. And this.
There was one play yan micro on eBay that went on auction up to £22 (about $30 I think). I reckon it only sold so cheap because everyone tried to snipe it, annoying part is that I still haven't been able to figure out how the hell to get it to work and since it's Japanese I can't read the error messages
That intro was the best thing I've ever seen.
Can AK have more subscribers than T-Series?
Holy shit, I think one guy at my elemantary school had one of those. Always wondered what that thing was.
I would LOVE to add one of these to my GBA collection! What's a decent going price for one of these at the moment? There are so few on eBay it's hard to tell!
These are some pretty good videos, I like the narration a lot
Found you from Scott, damn dude nice quality and managing to talk about something I've literally never heard of. Keep up the good work and you definitely got a new sub!
God i hate it when i wake up in a gameboy micro dont you
yeah, its horrible
Here from Scott the Woz, awesome video, you just earned yourself a sub!
the compressed audio reminds me of flipnote studio
This is indeed an obscure piece of hardware, thank you for sharing this.
Seeing the people who don't get the reference in the title is... disappointing, to say the least.
This looks like it would've been a fun novelty back in the day. It's a shame we never got it in America.
...If this can play on the Gameboy Player
You have the best/worst way to watch videos
Even Nintendo made an MP3 player.
Did anyone else come from Scott's Stash's last video "The Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia"?
This would work on the DS wouldn't it , so I don't see how the DS would have affected it's sales if anything it should have boosted them, just IMO. Great 👍 videos man thanks for making them, keep it up & have a great day! ,😁
My Play-Yan micro came from Nintendo JP in a simple brown box with no software. 🇨🇦🐧
There is a guide on how to use Linux to convert videos, but I can't find that URL at present 😔
I can't say anything about the Play-Yan Micro's "surround" feature since I don't have one, but I suspect it's the same basic tech as the "surround" options in Mario Kart DS and systemwide on the 3DS. On that it's a more or less standard "stereo widening" effect. It doesn't work with headphones, it's for speakers. The simple explanation is it adds part of a flipped version of each channel into the other channel, which can make hard-panned sounds seem to come from further to the side than where the speaker is. It's quite effective on the 3DS, making noises seem to come from a foot or two to one side or the other when the actual speakers are just a few inches apart. In normal stereo mode everything sounds like it's between the speakers -- which is why when setting up speakers you should place them as far apart as you can while still having yourself facing the center point between them.
The Adventures of Carlos Caterpillar / The Zula Patrol / Turbo Dogs on Play-Yan Micro
I found it actually strange that nintendo first came out with their gba video series and then came up with their play ya-yan adaptor for the gba,as if they were saying ‘you don’t need to have those video cartrides because now you can drag & drop those videos triugh our software onto the play-yan cart,i also found it strange that it has it’s own headphone jack out,well if nintendo wasn’t that comfident with the gba sound,then why didn’t they designed the play-yan with the DS in mind for better sound,also you might think that using the play-yan is ment to experience your content in gba perspective and so using it’s headphone jack pretty much defeats the purpose of this device i guess,am mean if i want to per se have crystall clear audio, i might as well using a regular portible media player or mp3 player.
Finally, I can watch HENTAI
on my gba
I have a Game Boy player along with the disc.
Hey, AkFamilyHome, how crispy is the audio with this music/famitracker?
th-cam.com/video/BAm8aesAzuA/w-d-xo.html (Retro City Rampage - Main Menu)
Just got one of these (I live in the UK) and can't get videos working, this is the EU model so I'm not sure if they kept Mpeg-4 playback in that. if they removed it I'll be really annoyed
I'll add links to those in the description shortly!
I generally wonder how people could watch like spongebob or the other shows in a gameboy micro
ok ol up
did the ak from the play yan died
who was he and why was he here,?? the lore keeps building itself.
just kidding, great video, i love to hear about some strange stuff ive never seen
Mister LN
I don’t know. But I know that Play-Yan loves music, so...
Could anyone explain why someone would name their accessory with an obscure name from an obscure character from an obscure Japan only game that is from a decently hard game that most wouldn't get to the minigame that he appears?
I had GBA video, (still have my only cart, even) so I’m fine with the audio *crunch*
Which video conversation website did you go to? I have only found a ton of scammy and unsafe websites when trying to look for a conversion one.
Nintendo's excuse for a MP3 player
That’s a good portable porn movie player back in the day....
Why isnt there something like this on the switch?its 2 years old so it looks like Nintendo arent going to update the switch to a decent multimedia device....
Master Scott the Woz has sent us to your land.
why cant dedicated media software always have such cute and creative guis...
You should've shown off the mini games. I wanna see what they are.
How do you format the SD card in preparation for using this?
Who’s here from Scott the Woz?
You should take a look at handbrake if you ever need to convert videos like this again. Great program.
Please bring play yan for the switch!!.
Be nice, and say thank you to Scott.
dat sound quality tho lol
There should be a version of this video being played on a Play-Yan Micro
CMG The Person
That will be funny.
There is the juice box
can i put a headphone jack into my flashcart lol
MPFree and fings
I could probably buy one of these since it’s 30 euros