21st November 2004, 5:40 PM
I DID! READ MY FRICKIN' POSTS!
And the size doesn't actually tell you how much power it uses, just how big it is. For all we know the device is hollow except for a small chip tucked away in the corner, ala NES cartridges :D.
Oh and, yes I know the rumbling GBC games had their own battery, but that's a motor. Motors need a lot of power anyway. This is a TV Tuner. What about this could possibly need that much power? It's all INPUT, the system should provide PLENTY. I mean, I've had speakers with NO power provided, totally unplugged, actually PLAY AM radio very quietly, simply because the energy of the light waves sending the signal were enough to activate the magnet and occilate the speaker. The only thing needed is to boost the signal, and why can't it just be boosted INSIDE the GBA/DS? Oh yes, now I get it, because to boost you need several levels of boost specially designed for both video and sound, something the average game doesn't need since the feed actually originates at a fixed power within the system... That in mind, the signal would need to be "stepped up" many times with the help of our friend the diode, and this would have to actually be in the tuner...
However, the GG tuner had plenty of power. I really don't think the cart slot of the GG had all that much power output. If the small power going to the GG game slot was enough to step up the signal, why not in the DS and SP?
And the size doesn't actually tell you how much power it uses, just how big it is. For all we know the device is hollow except for a small chip tucked away in the corner, ala NES cartridges :D.
Oh and, yes I know the rumbling GBC games had their own battery, but that's a motor. Motors need a lot of power anyway. This is a TV Tuner. What about this could possibly need that much power? It's all INPUT, the system should provide PLENTY. I mean, I've had speakers with NO power provided, totally unplugged, actually PLAY AM radio very quietly, simply because the energy of the light waves sending the signal were enough to activate the magnet and occilate the speaker. The only thing needed is to boost the signal, and why can't it just be boosted INSIDE the GBA/DS? Oh yes, now I get it, because to boost you need several levels of boost specially designed for both video and sound, something the average game doesn't need since the feed actually originates at a fixed power within the system... That in mind, the signal would need to be "stepped up" many times with the help of our friend the diode, and this would have to actually be in the tuner...
However, the GG tuner had plenty of power. I really don't think the cart slot of the GG had all that much power output. If the small power going to the GG game slot was enough to step up the signal, why not in the DS and SP?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)