online gameboy

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:14 pm

would it be possible to play gameboy online by somehow connect the link cable to your computer??? Imagine playing four swords online, or playing a canadian guy in tetris!!!

FDSMAN · Post by **FDSMAN** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:18 pm

they do have those, for the nes emulator, i think it's nes x or somything like that, if the person is on than you can play them on a game of tetris

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sat May 07, 2005 5:22 pm

no i mean like connecting your gameboy to your computer then connecting it to the internet. it wouldn't take that much coding since the gameboy link cable only uses two wires and i think the gba cable uses four

MiGs · Post by **MiGs** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:02 pm

What madc0w is talking about is called tunneling, and from what I hear its not possible to do this with the gameboy because of the latency (lag) issue. Would be cool tho.

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:06 pm

well for turn based games such as ffta or advanced wars, it wouldn't really matter

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Sat May 07, 2005 9:58 pm

It is simple

all you do is hook the link cable to the parallel port and then u send the serial packets through tcp/ip protocal and you basiclly created a tunnel for the gameboy.

You would need something faster than a 56k speed for this i would think.

but it's pretty simple you can find how to use the link cable to the parallel port and then u just sue a freeware software which sends packets from the parallel port to other pc's (the software is ment so u can print on printers from the net)

then your done

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun May 08, 2005 1:39 am

but wouldnt that take a lot of programming?

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:03 am

Only on the computers, which is pretty easy.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:04 am

so you wouldnt need to hack the gameboy

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun May 08, 2005 2:09 am

No. It would just think that it was connected to another GB.

Unidentified Assilant · Sun May 08, 2005 2:50 am

but the other person would have to do this and I can't imagine many people who would.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sun May 08, 2005 3:10 am

i would do this but i have absolutely no clue so there is no point

DS online will be released soon YAY!

NiN^_^NiN · Post by **NiN^_^NiN** » Sun May 08, 2005 5:39 am

There is already free software that can do this it sends whatever data comes from the parallel port to the other persons pc and sends to out through there parallel port and vice versa so all u need to do is hack the cable then both download the software.

It would be better to have a special program to do this and thats very simple but if u hack the cable it's all u need to do

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:36 am

or instead of hacking the cable, you could make a special adapter, parralell to gameboy

Alchemist · Post by **Alchemist** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:11 am

As Migs pointed out, there'd be latency issues. Even for turn based games, when the data was delayed the sync would be lost and the Gameboy would say "cable disconnected" or similar.