Bandai Playdia

[GunstarTotoro]

Hi! I'm new kinda (I forgot if I registered here before or not so I made a new name) so my bad if I come off as a n00b. I can sort of understand technical things but not too terribly much. XD

Anyway, I don't really want to learn how to program the Bandai Playdia because it's a really limited system (and plus like everyone says there's too much hentai for it, etc...) but I had a technical question (just for pointless curiosity's sake) so I figured it would go here.

Does the Bandai Playdia use any specific format in the Quicktime/AVI/MPG sense or is it just a mini-Laserdisc/CED or even VCD?

The reason I ask is because I know that the Playdia only has an 8MHZ processor and a minuscule amount of RAM so if it actually used some form of digital format it would be interesting!

Like I said, this question is just for curiosity's sake, I'm not a developer and don't even want a Playdia (even though I love the way the system looks). I know some people hate curiosity questions, so don't worry I won't try to ask too many (I actually registered this account just so I can read the forums, I guess that makes me a lurker :( ) anyway thank you for reading my boring post! :3

[Jamtex]

Anyway, I don't really want to learn how to program the Bandai Playdia because it's a really limited system (and plus like everyone says there's too much hentai for it, etc...)

Yes all those hentai games like Sailor Moon, Anpan Man, Ultraman.... you are aware the console is aimed at small children? Maybe you are confusing the Playdia with the FM Towns Marty? Which had more hentai then Assembler has hardware.

[GunstarTotoro]

Yes all those hentai games like Sailor Moon, Anpan Man, Ultraman.... you are aware the console is aimed at small children? Maybe you are confusing the Playdia with the FM Towns Marty? Which had more hentai then Assembler has hardware.

I heard that in the last leg of the systems life, all they made was idol-discs to repurpose their market and not have to write the Playdia off as a complete failure.

Maybe this was the wrong place to ask anything, I'll try NFG. Thank you!

[Rawit]

I guess video material is being decoded by the Asahi Kasei AK8000 video/audio processor. Nobody has the specs of that chip, so still not sure what video format it is, but I suspect MPG-1/VCD, because in 1994 MPG decoder chips were quite common.

[mooseblaster]

Does the Bandai Playdia use any specific format in the Quicktime/AVI/MPG sense or is it just a mini-Laserdisc/CED or even VCD?

It's definitely not CED or LaserDisc as we know that it's CD-based. Also, I wouldn't expect anything highly compressed in a proprietary format as that would be an issue with both the processor and RAM available. I'm expecting Rawit is right, and that the MPEG-1 standard is used (used in the VideoCD standard), as there are plenty of off-the-shelf decoder chips that could be used and it's relatively uncomplicated.

As for the file container (whether it's AVI, QT, MPG, etc.), I would say it's unlikely to be AVI, QT or MOV - if it was those, we'd likely have a label on the console stating 'Powered by Quicktime' and whatnot. Likely it's either in a bog-standard MPG container file, or something hokey that Bandai has cooked up.

Hope that helps!