The unique Xbox and PlayStation 2 each allow you to watch DVD motion pictures along with enjoying video games. Seldom few consoles earlier than or since provided a lot in the best way of media, least of all of the Atari 2600, which was too weedy to even think about such feats. And but, as coated by TechEBlog, [Lodef Mode] constructed a cartridge that lets it play video.

It’s fairly poor high quality video, however it’s video! The MovieCart, as it’s recognized, is ready to play footage at 80×192 decision, with a shade palette restricted by the capabilities of the Atari 2600 {hardware}. It’s not some sneaky video pass-through, both—the Atari actually is processing the frames.

To play a video utilizing the MovieCart, you first have to arrange it utilizing a particular utility that converts video into the suitable format for the cart. The generated video file is then loaded on a microSD card which is then inserted into the MovieCart. All you then should do is put the MovieCart into the Atari’s cartridge slot and boot it up.  Sound is current too, in a pleasingly lo-fi high quality. Management of image brightness and sound quantity is through joystick. You possibly can genuinely watch a film this fashion in the event you actually wished to. I’d placed on Home of Gucci.

Due to the prodigious storage out there on microSD playing cards, you possibly can really play an entire characteristic size film on the {hardware} this fashion. You possibly can order a MovieCart of your very personal from Tindie, and it even comes with a public area copy of Night time of the Dwelling Lifeless preloaded on a microSD card.

We don’t see an enormous marketplace for Atari 2600 motion pictures, however it’s neat to see it achieved. One way or the other it reminds us of the hacked HitClips carts from some time in the past. Video after the break.