I'm trying to get the GBA connection to work in Animal Crossing. I've read various posts and guides, including this guide from this same forum, and the wiki. Nothing yet has worked for me, though. I apologize, by the way, for posting a new thread about this; I attempted to bump an old thread about GBA connectivity, but it turned out new comments were disabled.
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
My set-up is the following:
To attempt to connect Dolphin and VBA, I do the following:
The GBA splashscreen plays in VBA, but nothing happens in Dolphin. My understanding is that the two emulators should now be connected, although I haven't been able to accomplish that. None of the GBA-dependent features in Animal Crossing activate.
I've also attempted to connect by following the previous steps, but selecting GameCube as the link type before closing VBA and launching Dolphin. I have also tried by starting VBA first. Regardless of which order I follow, I haven't ever seen any indication in Dolphin that it's connected to a GBA.
Thank you to anyone who can explain how to get this to work.
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
My set-up is the following:
- I'm using Dolphin 5.0.
- I have controller port 1 set to Standard Controller, and port 2 set to GBA.
- I've disabled do not have DualCore or CPU Clock Override.
- I'm using VisualBoyAdvance-M 2.1.4
- I have a functioning GBA BIOS, and I've set up the pathway to it in VBA.
- In the Emulation menu, I've disabled Skip BIOS and [/i]Pause while inactive[/i]
- In the Options > Game Boy Advance menu, I've enabled Use BIOS file
- In the Options > Link menu, I've enabled Local mode and Link at boot
To attempt to connect Dolphin and VBA, I do the following:
- I open VBA
- I go to Options > Link > Type and select Nothing
- I close VBA
- I start Dolphin, launch Animal Crossing, and load my save file.
- I start VBA. I now change the link type it to GameCube
- In VBA, I click
- File[/i] > Open and select the GBA BIOS.
The GBA splashscreen plays in VBA, but nothing happens in Dolphin. My understanding is that the two emulators should now be connected, although I haven't been able to accomplish that. None of the GBA-dependent features in Animal Crossing activate.
I've also attempted to connect by following the previous steps, but selecting GameCube as the link type before closing VBA and launching Dolphin. I have also tried by starting VBA first. Regardless of which order I follow, I haven't ever seen any indication in Dolphin that it's connected to a GBA.
Thank you to anyone who can explain how to get this to work.
