The ideal way to watch Principle, according to director Christopher Nolan (and many others), is in a cinema. “This is a film whose image and sound really need to be enjoyed in its big-screen cinemas,” he said last year in a pandemic. This inspired YouTuber Bob Wulff, who runs the WulffDen channel, to put the time-blocking blockbuster on Game Boy Advance’s video cartridges.
Wulff frankly admits that this is “possibly the worst way to see Principle. “He divided the film into five cartridges because it is two and a half hours long. According to Wulff,” 30 minutes is the maximum time you can have for a Game Boy Advance video. [cartridge] and is still in an almost watchable state. “He even made custom labels.
There are trade-offs, of course. Wullf had to reduce the video to six frames per second with a resolution of 192×128 and a colossal bit rate of 8 KB / s. The software used by Wulff also speeds up video by one third by default. The result is not exactly the immaculate IMAX cinema experience that Nolan expected. Many viewers have found it difficult to hear much of the dialogue in Principle due to the questionable sound mix, then can you imagine trying to watch the movie with a GBA speaker?
Most Game Boy Advance video cartridges had a few episodes of a program like Pokémon or Sponge Bob Square Pants, but there were some full films, like Shrek and Shark Tale. With GBA’s 20th anniversary fast approaching, it seems like the perfect time to order some GBA video cartridges, a device to load them up and spoil your favorite movie by watching it in a terrible format.