e-Reader - Jumping Doduo

Thursday, May 19, 2011

e-Reader - Jumping Doduo

Here's some pretty rare footage for you, utilizing two pretty rare Nintendo devices. I searched around on YouTube and couldn't find many e-Reader videos (as in the GBA attachment, not the recent eBook machines). So here you go, the "Jumping Doduo" mini-game. I had attached the e-Reader to the Game Boy Player, one of the few things the Nintendo Gamecube can handle that the Wii can't. So essentially, I attached a failed Nintendo device to another failed Nintendo device. The e-Reader was something that would attach to the Game Boy Advance. Built into it is a device that lets it read dot codes on e-Reader cards. You swipe them through the e-Reader like you would a credit card, and if all is well, the e-Reader will ick it up and store the data on the dot code. The Game Boy Player is a machine that connects to the bottom of a Gamecube and allows you to play GBA games on it. Since there's nothing on a GBA that lets me connect it to my video capture device, I plugged the e-Reader into the Game Boy Player. The mini-game you see here is "Jumping Doduo." You can play it by scanning in the cards "Doduo" and "Dodrio" from the Aquapolis set of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, released back in 2001. When you successfully scan in the long codes for both of them (there are two codes on these cards, a short one at the bottom and a long one on the right), the e-Reader will be able to load the mini-game. It's a very simple one, really. Doduo is running across a plain, and he needs to jump over ...