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GBA Adapter netplay? - Nom - 11-22-2013
Hello Dolphin devs! I've had this idea/topic in my head for a while now. I would just like to suggest (if not already an added feature) the abilty to netplay gamecube games that implemented GameBoy Advance's as controllers ie Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adevntures. I've tried this before and it appears (to us) that there may be issues with using a gameboy controller for netplay (probably due to it not being supported really). I'm just wondering if the compatability with gba emulators for using gameboy's as controllers on netplay would be a possible feature in future dolphin versions, being considered at all, or maybe even in development.
Even if it's demanding it would still be awesome to have Four Swords be playable online if you have a good computer.Operating System: Windows 7 64-Bit
Processor/CPU: AMD FX™-8350 Eight-Core Processor 4.01GHz
Video Card/GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7800
Memory/RAM: 8GB DDR3
Dolphin Revision Currently Using: x64 Dolphin 3.5-2468
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - JMC47 - 11-22-2013
There an open issue for it. It's simply not possible yet. Maybe with a future update it could be possible, but right now it's not feasible.
I have done 4 player on one computer successfully though, so, it could plausibly be done full speed.
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - Shonumi - 11-22-2013
Actually, this has been done before, both with Four Swords Adventures and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (admittedly, the only two games that really work for Dolphin's GBA <--> GCN connection). You have to use a special version of VBA-M; have a look here: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-gba-gcn-connection-guide. The instance of VBA-M can be running on any networked computer, as long as all of the instances of VBA-M can connect to the computer running Dolphin. The key is to change the IP address when messing around with Joybus options in VBA-M.
EDIT: Nvm, forgot that you can't see the Dolphin screen :p You could still netplay this way, you just couldn't see what was happening in the game.
EDIT AGAIN: On second thought, I suppose you could have people connect to the hosting instance of Dolphin with VBA-M, but also connect to that same instance with Dolphin's netplay spectators. This is a very convoluted and round-about way of doing things, but it should work in theory. I'm not an expert with Dolphin's netplay though, so I may just be doing wishful thinking after all.
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - RachelB - 11-23-2013
Quote:but also connect to that same instance with Dolphin's netplay spectators.It wouldn't sync.
The best you could do is stream a video of dolphin.
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - Shonumi - 11-23-2013
Just curious as to why it won't sync? Is there something up with netplay's spectator mode?
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - RachelB - 11-23-2013
Because GBA input isn't handled.
I looked into adding support for that a while back, but could never figure out how gbas even worked at all :/
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - JMC47 - 11-23-2013
They don't really work. That's part of the problem. They work in one specific case and that's about it.
RE: GBA Adapter netplay? - RachelB - 11-24-2013
(11-23-2013, 07:24 PM)JMC47 Wrote: They don't really work. That's part of the problem. They work in one specific case and that's about it.Yeah, that's not what i meant.