Post by: UncleBob on November 26, 2006, 07:01:09 AM
As you may recall, I've had some bad feelings about Nintendo, the GameBoys and the linking of them... but now I've gotten it all taken care of!
First, there was the inability to link four GBAs together for 4-Player GB Classic games. Long story short, because the only way to play Classic GameBoy games in 4-Player mode is to use the official Nintendo 4-Player adapter. Unfortunatly, the end of this adapter has an older, fatter link port on it that simply won't plug into a GBA unit. This was solved by cutting off the older, fatter cable and putting on a GBA link. Yay! Now I can link four GBAs together for F-1 Racing!
Nest up was the micro's inability to link to just about anything. Basically, the entire design of the GameBoy micro's link cables made it impossible to link to the GameBoy Player and if you wanted to link it to other GameBoy Advance units, you had to go out and buy additional GameBoy micro link cables *and* adapters for each of the GBA units you wanted to link - unable to use the existing GBA link cables that I already had four or five of. Solution? Take half of a (generic) GameBoy micro link cable and attach it to the purple half of a GameBoy Advance Link Cable! With this cable, I can plug my micro into a GameBoy Player or into the little box on the official GameBoy Advance Link Cables! Woot!
And who do I have to thank for all of this? The awesomly cool guy who created the GameBoy micro-GameCube cable, Troz! I didn't really do anything aside from send him the supplies and some copies of F-1 Race to test with (and a copy of Chibi Robo for the GCN for his time) - he did all the real work!
But now, all my linking problems are solved! Well, except for that entire linking my systems to my TiVo thing...
Post by: vudu on November 27, 2006, 06:22:11 AM
Post by: couchmonkey on November 27, 2006, 07:14:30 AM
Good news! Frankly I have nobody to play against, so this has never bothered me, but it's nice someone else cared about the problem.
Post by: UncleBob on November 27, 2006, 11:53:23 AM
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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
I thought it was going to be about citing sources when battling forum trolls.
Good news! Frankly I have nobody to play against, so this has never bothered me, but it's nice someone else cared about the problem.
I never said I had someone to play against...
Post by: Ceric on November 27, 2006, 12:56:05 PM
Post by: UncleBob on November 27, 2006, 06:10:28 PM
... you don't even have to bring your own GameBoy, you can use one of mine... I might have one or two lying around here...
Post by: Smoke39 on November 28, 2006, 05:17:40 AM
Post by: UncleBob on November 28, 2006, 05:50:47 AM
15 cheapass copies of Faceball to go...
Post by: ThePerm on September 22, 2007, 03:54:00 PM
