I stumbled across this while looking through old PSP physical releases and ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole. In 2005, Sony released a version of the movie Stealth on UMD that also had a playable, exclusive version of WipEout Pure on the same disc, complete with a Stealth-themed track and a craft based on the film's fighter jet.

I ended up writing a little piece about what was on the UMD, why Sony was experimenting with movie/game hybrids at the time, and what survives of this very strange release today. It is a super light little read, but when it comes to PSP's these days, there's woefully few of those!

Hopefully some in here find it amusing :)

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[–] 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

There was even movies on Game Boy Advance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance_Video Which is kind of dumb, compared to UMD. And if you think about it, we watch movies on mobile devices. The first iPhone came out years later, so we wasn't used to smartphones yet.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Hilariously, the video cartridges are blocked from working on GameCube Game Boy Player. We can't have you watching videos you paid for, on the TV!

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago (2 children)

    probably because the video resolution has been abysmal to begin with to fit it on the cartridge

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