am3 adapter for GBA SP - The Pulse 2 - from Nintendo Company Ltd - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., April, 2003

In anticipation of Nintendo's addition to its Game Boy franchise GBA SP (the SP bit stands for "Same as Previous" ....), am3 has produced an "am3 Smart Media" memory card for use in the new, only very slightly improved Game Boy Advance. Owners of the new GBA SP will need to slot the am3 Smart Media card into the am3 adapter, and that in turn is slotted into the Game Boy Advance for playback of movie and sound files.

The actual content will depend on how trials of the unit go, reckons am3, but could range from simple tunes right up to full-blown, 30 frames-per-second video. Blank smart media cards are expected to sell for about [yen]2,000, cards with cool stuff already recorded on them about [yen]2,300, and just the contents themselves -- downloaded from places such as your local convenience store -- from about [yen]200 a pop.