yes the Wii can play CD's with a couple of mods and a few hack's...:D,AN THE GAME CUBE WITH A HACK 8cm disc's with hack.

hell with the Game cube player add-on you could give your Game Cube and Game boy advance and DS bluetooth!
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ITS A BIG PICTURE! showing the adapter working on the GBA:SP

here is the info on the adapter back in 2003:

GameBoy Advance owners with the longing to get connected now have a new option: a Bluetooth module that will allow them to be connected to the Internet.

The X-tra Fun Bluetooth module for the GameBoy Advance SP will go on sale around Christmas 2003 for $49, according to Mark Cramer, the company's president and chief executive.

The Bluetooth module will require a separate cell phone or other device for Internet access, although it can share a Bluetooth piconet with up to seven devices. Those devices, if connected to GameBoys, could also use the Bluetooth network to play games which X-tra Fun plans to provide, Kramer said.

The Bluetooth cartridge will plug into the standard GameBoy slot. An upgraded version will include a Secure Digital (SD) card slot and a dongle, and sell for $99. Setup is a breeze, Kramer said.

"What's neat is that it's all plug and play," Kramer said. "You push a button and it does it all in background."

Inside the module is an eCos embedded kernel and web browser, which together take up about 375 Kbits of storage. The browser can store the last 255 pages the user sees before it needs to overwrite the oldest page with new data, Kramer said.

X-tra Fun expects strong sales within the U.S. "Seventy-five percent of all GameBoys are sold within the U.S.," Kramer said.

Clarification: Although ExtremeTech accurately quoted Mark Kramer's characterization that the eCos kernel is Linux-based, eCos is in fact not related to the Linux operating system. The story has been corrected to reflect that fact.

they are pretty hard to find now so if you want one good luck scrounging:

It is a failed product. It lost its market leader status, is selling like crap and is costing the company tons of money. It is a failure. Just because it did crap in holiday 20087 doers not mean "it failed again". It just means it continued its trend as a failure.

You think the PS3 has only failed three times?

I would say every month that it landed last on the NPD results should be considered a fail.

joeorc,

thanks for the info on those unique peripherals, but I'm only ever concerned about standard hardware and what the machine can do out of the box. Sure, you can make a gameboy (or any system) do whatever you want with enough additional add-ons, but since it's not part of the original SKU most people don't count those. Gamecube and Wii can't play music CD's without alterations. Not sure why, since the PS1 even played music CD's, but that's Nintendo's choice. Perhaps it costs extra to license the algorithms or something.

@moondeep

yea i would view it has problems with license's or other thing's Nintendo prob. does not want to go into.
as I also look for thing's out of the box also, but the very fact you can add thing's like these does show that maybe Nintendo may not create them but 3rd party hardware production companies are more than willing.Nintendo in its hardware development has removed for example in the case of the gamecube may have something to do with their software stack they used due to license's with the CHIP production companies that make certain chip's on the GameCube that Nintendo did not make themselves.

much like the RSX which for example is made by Nvidia and not Sony.

For the Wii though, I thought the initial news just before it launched in Japan was that it would have DVD playback, and then I heard that only special versions would play DVDs, and then it was dropped entirely, with the assumption that Nintendo would offer it again in the future via a firmware update or a new SKU or something. I guess Nintendo used the same logic for removing MP3 playback from their photo viewing software on the Wii. Didn't want to mess with the costs and hassles of the licenses, but I think it hurts their viability with us core gamers.

yea , the hardware is already there it's the software stack that's missing, and Nintendo may have a very Viable reason why it's not there most likey price increase, though it may not be much though but to Nintendo it was enough to keep the playback out of the Wii at least for now. with the Wii channel and among other thing's added on for the Wii i think Nintendo has pretty much it's hand's full. If Nintendo does indeed add the DVD playback i am pretty sure many people would like that function added if there was no cost, which most of the time this generation that were in right now , i think is very much the best and it will stay that way forward because there are quite a bit of freebie's that all three game companies are letting gamer's get thing's for free. moreso vs' last generation, with the added NETWORK content that all three can hand out for free it's a great time to play video game's this generation, young and old.

Its too expensive and CLEARLY the 360 undercut any benefit available from the larger capacity. To me its as debilitating as the Wii's hardware has been to HD game conversion. Theres just not enough reason, especially now, to push for more game depth with 360 in front.

The true answer he should have given was, we wanted to revitalise the home movie market through the BR player and protect ourselves from the online download threat, that's the clear and obvious answer.

that has been the same ANTI-forma advancement argument against any new format and most of the time it does not hold water. this is one such time.

the xbox360 had nothing to do with it. Microsoft could care less about BOTH HD DVD or Blu-RAY it was about the "IHD"software stack

there would not have even been a HD FORMAT WAR if "MICROSOFT'S "IHD" software was taken over JAVA.

IT WAS NOT About the XBOX360 it was all about IHD" being the control software platform for all...

ALL HD FORMAT optical Movie player's and OPTICAL FORMAT RECORDER'S that would have included EVEN Blu-Ray.

the BDA decided on JAVA and Microsoft supported HD DVD anyway in Hope's to sway more of the Movie Companies over to pressure the manuf. to USE the "IHD" over JAVA. that is the real truth. the XBOX360 was another tool, it was not the sole reason.

the home movie market is not the only market Blu-Ray is in it's recorder's , portable HD VIDEO CAM CORDER'S, Software..just like all other OPTICAL FORMAT'S BEFORE IT. CD : plays movies "VCD's" , music, software

DVD: plays movies "DVD's" , music,software

BLU-RAY: plays movies :Blu-Ray" music, software

HD DVD: PLAYED MOVIES: MUSIC but did not play software...why not? why did HD DVD not play software..because it's not needed?

the true fact is HD DVD was never intended to be a standard format if it did the format would have been used for software also. not to say that HD DVD could not be used for software, it's more than capable of it ..So why not... the simple statement was "Because it's not needed" DVD is enough

that's great and all what happen's next generation..will DVD still be enough...How about DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY?

its getting rather Silly. Blu-Ray is an evolution of existing OPTICAL DRIVE FORMAT'S the very fact you can still play your DVD's in a Blu-Ray optical drive's mean's you as a consumer can upgrade anytime in the future and still keep your DVD's Blu-Ray offer's another function to play your DVD Movies better, and OFFER HD movie's also, Sony like 11 of the largest optical drive manuf. all View Blu-Ray as the future replacement for DVD...Sony had invested since 1997 into Blu-Ray, why on earth would people not expect them to put the next optical drive upgrade standard of DVD in the Playstation.

People may say that's not true that HD DVD was the next upgrade to the DVD format standard..Only by Name not by the rest of the optical drive manuf. which already made their choice back in 2002.