nintendo european research & development formerly called actmagine 2003 2011 type subsidiary industry video games founded march 2003 ; 13 years ago 2003 03 as actimagine headquarters paris france key people alexandre delattre managing director and cto j r me larrieu chief science officer products video playback software middleware owner nintendo website official website nintendo european research & development or nerd was formerly known as mobiclip formerly known as actimagine kt m d i n is a nintendo subsidiary located in paris which develops software technologies and middleware for nintendo platforms . 1 some notable customers aside from nintendo included sony pictures digital and fisher price . nintendo licensed mobiclip compression technology for the game boy advance and nintendo ds video game consoles used by popular games such as square enix s final fantasy iii and konami s contra 4 . fisher price used them for its pixter multi media educational toy . sony pictures digital and the carphone warehouse used mobiclip software to deliver tv like full length movies on microsd memory cards for smart phones . nintendo european research & development nerd holds patents on its video codecs and drm technology . contents 1 history 2 mobiclip video codecs 2.1 nintendo licensing 3 list of technologies developed by nerd 4 references history edit actimagine logo actimagine was established in march 2003 by a team of engineers and managers . actimagine started out with mobile gaming consoles . the video compression technology offered by mobiclip was an optimized response to the battery life and video quality requirements of nintendo video gaming platforms game boy advance nintendo ds wii and nintendo 3ds . the mobiclip codec provides high video quality with low battery consumption and has been selected by major studios such as sony pictures digital paramount fox and gaumont colombia tristar films and by leading handset manufacturers such as nokia or sony ericsson to deliver video on memory cards for mobile phones . on april 2006 actimagine raised 3 million in equity financing from us venture capital firm grp partners . this first round of institutional fund raising enabled actimagine to accelerate its business development in the us and japan . the same year adobe acquired actimagine s flash rendering engine optimized for mobile devices . 2 in 2008 mobiclip launched the first application delivering live tv on the iphone a year before apple . 3 4 on october 2011 mobiclip 5 was bought by nintendo and is now a subsidiary of the latter . since then it is now known as nintendo european research & development or nerd . mobiclip video codecs edit mobiclip logo mobiclip was developed with a completely different algorithm from the one used for other video codecs on the market based on minimal use of the processor resources allowing battery life to be increased considerably and the cost of the hardware to be reduced . nintendo licensing edit nintendo selected mobiclip as its main provider of video codec technologies on the game boy advance nintendo ds nintendo wii and nintendo 3ds . major software titles used it for in game cinematics including gba video series on the game boy advance 6 dragon quest ix sentinels of the starry skies on nintendo ds 7 professor layton series on nintendo ds and nintendo 3ds 8 fire emblem awakening on nintendo 3ds . 9 list of technologies developed by nerd edit mobiclip video codecs for smartphone game boy advance nintendo ds nintendo 3ds wii wii u media player for wii u internet browser wii u chat co developed w nintendo software technology and vidyo nes emulator for nes classic edition described on nerd s homepage 10 nintendo ds emulator on wii u super stable 3d display on new nintendo 3ds downloadable wii games on the wii u eshop references edit iwata asks 1 . introduction iwata asks nerd nintendo . nintendo of europe gmbh . retrieved 28 january 2015 . adobe adobe press room for immediate release . retrieved 28 january 2015 . christian d. france 24 sur mobile gr ce mobiclip.com d actimagine . g n ration nt . retrieved 28 january 2015 . apple launches http live streaming standard in iphone 3.0 . retrieved 28 january 2015 . nintendo adquiere mobiclip . revogamers . retrieved 2012 10 05 . gba video pokemon johto photo finish and playing with fire . ign . retrieved 28 january 2015 . http www.nintendo.com consumer gameslist manuals ds dragon quest ix.pdf f i w c g x f i t . com . retrieved 28 january 2015 . c1 control character in title at position 1 help fire emblem awakening movies cutscenes studio fireemblem . reddit . retrieved 28 january 2015 . nerd homepage . retrieved 3 april 2016 . v t e nintendo development teams international headquarters and distributors divisions entertainment planning & development epd platform technology development ptd business development division bdd subsidiaries japan 1 up studio nintendo network service database nsd monolith soft nd cube north america 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