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FIX94 / Nintendont

A Wii Homebrew Project to play GC Games on Wii and vWii on Wii U
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Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - GBA loses connection during 2-player game #446

Closed SedrynTyros closed 6 years ago

SedrynTyros commented 7 years ago

Title is fairly self-explanatory.

I'm playing with two GBA consoles attached to a Wii with official GBA-link cables. When playing with a genuine game disc (I own one) the games works fine; no problems. But when playing with a redump copy of the game using USBLoaderGX with Nintendon't, one of the two GBAs will always lose its connection within the first 30 minutes of play. When the connection is lost, the game quits and returns to the main menu. Since you can only save at the end of stages, this makes the game unplayable with Nintendon't because one of the GBAs will always lose its connection before you can get to the first save point.

FIX94 commented 7 years ago

It does not sound like a problem with nintendont but with the cable itself, I know from experience there are a lot of cables with dodgy contacts and inconsistent I/O leading to problems like this, when you have nintendont in native mode it does not touch any of the PAD registers and lets the game do it all through the original hardware without having a hand in them, so maybe clean the cables and I guess test both out to see which one is the troublemaker and switch it out for a different one in the worst case.

SedrynTyros commented 7 years ago

How is it a problem with a cable? When playing the actual, physical game, outside of Nintendon't emulation, with the same cables, there are zero problems. The cables are fine. My son and I played through two stages of the game straight with no problems at all once we stopped using Nintendon't. The problem is almost certainly with Nintendon't. Once you take Nintendon't out of the equation and use a physical disc, on the same exact hardware, there are no problems.

SedrynTyros commented 7 years ago

Having said that, I can play the game fine since I own a physical copy and therefore don't need Nintendon't to play it. I was just trying to help you guys out by bringing to your attention what, to me, looks like a bug in Nintendon't.

carnage702 commented 7 years ago

are your cables official? or 3rd party? one user was having issues becuase he had 3rd party gc cable and he bought an official one and no more problems.

SedrynTyros commented 7 years ago

carnage702, please see my first post:

"I'm playing with two GBA consoles attached to a Wii with official GBA-link cables."

And I'll just say it one more time, there's nothing wrong with the cables!!! When you use them with a real game disc on hardward (sans Nintendon't) they work without issue.

carnage702 commented 7 years ago

well you dont have any options forced? like patched videomods,unlock read speed,log,osreport,etc? you have everything off or auto? since you never showed a pic of your settings.

Also start nintendont directly through the homebrew channel and not through usbloader gx.