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Gericom / GBARunner2

A GBA hypervisor for DS. (like nintendont for gc on wii)
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GBA to GameCube link cable #147

Open louisspaghetti opened 3 years ago

louisspaghetti commented 3 years ago

Similar to the wifi_link feature, there should be a way to communicate with a Wii/Wii U running Nintendont; obviously there would need to be support on Nintendont's end as well but it would be useful to have compatibility on GBARunner2's side.

V10lator commented 3 years ago

Nintendont is out of question as it will never allow to play GBA games.

Now I don't know what protocol wifi_link uses but for the Wii (U) we have Visual Boy Advance GX and there's VBA Link. It might be possible to merge the linking functionality into Visual Boy Advance GX (no promises, I don't know the codes) and use it on a ad-hoc connection (or maybe even on a access point wifi - or with Wii (U) LAN adapters for lowest latency). If wifi_link uses the same protocol that would be a win.

//EDIT: If wifi_link uses a custom protocol: Is there some writeup about it available?

Gericom commented 3 years ago

You don't seem to get what GameCube <--> GBA linking is. It isn't related to the gameboy player at all. It allows gamecube games to use a GBA as controller and to load software to the GBA which can be used with the gc game.

RinMaru commented 3 years ago

hmm if it could link up with dolphin via wifi or bluetooth that would be pretty amazing

V10lator commented 3 years ago

@Gericom I tried to find a bug report correlating to https://gbatemp.net/threads/nintendont-and-gbarunner2-connectivity-to-emulate-gc-gba-link-cable.570042 and you're right, I didn't know what GameCube <--> GBA linking is as I never owned a GCN. Sorry about that, will open a seperate bug report soon.