ok so there's a contraption for importing and playing back a gif https://itch.io/post/7502270 and if I can get this running at a consistent enough speed and maybe change things around so it's triggered by a button click, and then I could trigger an audio file to play at the same time and like hopefully it syncs up vaguely?
so far my experiment has been that I can import a gif in using the contraption above that I've converted from a video, and it does show up all nice and dithered and 1-bit, but at least at the size I used (320x240) it's not running at full speed. This may be a case of needing a smaller size, and if I can create the gifs with a 1-bit palette that may help too since then it's not like two layers of downsampling. And I'll need to do a bit of coding to get it playing on demand but like I reckon I could definitely do it, sort of. The real question is performance, like whether it'll fall out of sync and such.
I want to make it work though! Or at least see if I can try!