Connectivity with VBA-M? (Sonic Adventure 2)

Okaminami · 11-13-2017, 04:01 AM #1

I have been playing Sonic Adventure 2 and have been trying to virtually connect a Gameboy Advance so I can get a jewel chao from Sonic Advance. I can not seem to get it to work properly. I can't find help for this anywhere as it seems not many people do this with dolphin.

I can actually get it to recognize that there is a GBA connected, but it wont let me retrieve a chao from VBA.

I have Dolphin 5.0 and VBA-M (the newest version i could find). Any help would be appreciated.

**ExtremeDude2** · 11-13-2017, 04:26 AM #2

Have you tried the latest version of dolphin?

Okaminami · 11-13-2017, 04:42 AM #3

I have the latest official one, which is only a year old. Do you mean the newest development version?

**ExtremeDude2** · 11-13-2017, 04:51 AM #4

(11-13-2017, 04:42 AM)Okaminami Wrote: I have the latest official one, which is only a year old. Do you mean the newest development version?

Yes

Okaminami · 11-13-2017, 05:03 AM #5

(11-13-2017, 04:51 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: Yes

No i havent. I mean i can try but i doubt it will do anything because Dolphin has had this feature for years.

**Helios** · (This post was last modified: 11-13-2017, 05:21 AM by Helios.)

That does mean that feature won't operate differently in newer builds.

In any case, GBA connectivity functionality is an incredibly finicky feature to get working.

EDIT: s/does/doesn't

Okaminami · (This post was last modified: 11-13-2017, 05:16 AM by Okaminami.)

(11-13-2017, 05:11 AM)Helios Wrote: That does mean that feature won't operate differently in newer builds.

In any case, GBA connectivity functionality is an incredibly finicky feature to get working.

Yeah that makes sense. I did just try it with the newest dolphin version and it still didn't work. I still can't send/receive chaos.

**Helios** · 11-13-2017, 05:23 AM #8

Dunno then. If the newest dev build doesn't fix it then I couldn't tell you how to fix it.

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Adventure_2:_Battle#Tiny_Chao_Garden

appears to echo my concerns about the feature being extremely difficult to get working correctly.

Okaminami · 11-13-2017, 05:30 AM #9

(11-13-2017, 05:23 AM)Helios Wrote: Dunno then. If the newest dev build doesn't fix it then I couldn't tell you how to fix it.

https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Adventure_2:_Battle#Tiny_Chao_Garden

appears to echo my concerns about the feature being extremely difficult to get working correctly.

Damn, I was really wanting to get this to work properly :/ Thanks though