That's what Raylight Studios claims their Blue Roses Engine can do:
http://www.game2extreme.com/news/art...?articleid=141

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http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories...854517,00.html

whoa I never saw that before. That game looks like wipeout!! It has amazing graphics for a handheld. I also read that its possible to do full motion video on the GBA too.

ditto!

Yes, I think I heard there was a Disney game or something out that has that feature.

Amazing graphics for a hand-held, but not PS1 level.

I'm pretty sure it could. The only problem is that it would take way too much space on the cartridge (space which would have better uses). Then again, they managed to port Resident Evil 2 to the N64, so I suppose anything's possible.

As for these demos, keep in mind that they are probably using all of the GBA's resources and power to produce them. Do they have sound, which must be processed by the CPU (since the GBA doesn't have a sound chip)? Even then, there's still things like AI and game logic that have to go in there in actual games.

Actually, I believe they are produced using a PC version of the same engine. Reading through the site, I’m not even sure they’ve got it working on the GBA yet. Still, it’s impressive and I’d love to see them pull it off…although I agree with eintier that they aren’t up to PS1 quality.

They state in the spects they have power balanced for those attributes.

They also had a demo of a game that looked like Resident Evil. Keep in mind that they probably could look much better, but only did these as an example of the capabilities. As for full motion video, the new Britney Spears games has a full screen, 1 minute long clip from her concert. That's pretty impressive. The review in IGN claims that the video and audio is great despite the limitations and single speaker of the system.

Ok ok its not up to where PS1 games are now but its a lot closer than I thought it could come, but I was pretty surprised that a handheld could pull of graphics like that, after watching the moving they don't look like sprites either, they're real polygons!

I found the game I was thinking of that had FMV, it was Dragon Ball Z: The Legend of Goku. Actually that game looks pretty good, kinda like a 3/4 view action rpg.

Still I hope they keep putting out 2D games on the GBA....I'm a 2D freak SMW and Castlevania!!

The news may be old, but the interview is new!