DS TV tuner created from 1984 Trans Am

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DS TV tuner created from 1984 Trans Am

Posted Apr 11th 2006 11:30PM by David Hinkle
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Seriously, I had a friend in high school who drove a '84 Pontiac Trans Am and the dashboard looked just like this...thing. Actually, upon further inspection, I believe that antenna is the exact one and the same, ripped from the dated-beauty of the hood of his 1984 Pontiac Trans Am and affixed, in pure Frankenstein-like fashion, upon this bulky add-on. Considering the allure of simplistic design that the DS, and even more so the Lite, has achieved, this is one eyesore of an adapter. What's even more puzzling is how the adapter was proposed almost a year ago, looking identically the same, yet the color grey.

[Via Joystiq]

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1. I don't understand why it's so big. WTF is in that thing? A cassette player? Shouldn't a TV Tuner be able to damn near fit inside the GBA slot with little poking out these days?

This thing better be that big because it only costs $5 bucks to make and sells for under $10.

Posted at 11:43PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Matters

2. the total nonsense of this addon and it's atrocious size makes me want to puke.

Posted at 12:48AM on Apr 12th 2006 by b-man

3. According to this (Dutch) website you can only watch soccer games of the 1986 word cup on it (in black & white) ;)
http://games.shizzle.be/2006/04/11/eerste-%e2%80%98draagbare%e2%80%99-tv-adapter-voor-de-ds/

Posted at 5:13AM on Apr 12th 2006 by Animal

4. so your buddy had two trans-ams? a 1979 and a 1984? im confused now cause I was going to make my own but didnt know which car to rip the antenna off of.

Posted at 11:48AM on Apr 12th 2006 by JS

5. Me hopey that an American NTSC version will come out sooner or later....this one is with the smallness. Compared to that giant freakshow adapter above...

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=278&products_id=6137&

Posted at 12:03PM on Apr 12th 2006 by JCA

6. JS:

I originally thought it to be a '79 model, but after confirming with said friend, discovered it was a '84 model and had already typed up the blog. As such, in going back and changing the date, I moronically left that one "79" in there untouched for all to point and laugh at. My mistake is forever documented in the Hall of Interweb Shame.

Posted at 1:06PM on Apr 12th 2006 by David Hinkle

7. If I remember correctly, nintendo showed off their TV tuner and internet browser for the DS. I only remember this because www.dsfanboy.com had an articl about it sometime around january.

Posted at 4:05PM on Apr 12th 2006 by Marc

8. Well the good thing is this game is a perfect game to import so maybe it'll be easier to find elsewhere for a while.

Posted at 8:19PM on Apr 12th 2006 by Matters

9. sigh how did I end up submitting to the wrong place. i'm a retard.

Posted at 8:22PM on Apr 12th 2006 by Matters

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