On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:25:53 +0200, Groepaz wrote
> On Thursday 05 August 2004 20:10, Scott Mazur wrote:
> > Forgive my memory, I've just found the project...
> >
> > There was/is a card reader device for the GC. I've never owned one, but
if
> > I understand correctly, it plugged into a game port, then you swiped
trading
> > cards with barcode/dot patterns that eventually loaded a mini game. I'm
> > assuming it came with a disk as well. In other words, the disk lets you
> > load programs through a game port, possibly even store them on flash for
> > later?
> >
> > If you had the card reader disk, would it be possible to reverse
engineer
> > the card reader device and come up with a patch cord to directly load up
> > programs from another computer? Or for that matter, maybe a small boot
> > loader program could be written and printed in the paper card format
that
> > would contain enough code to get the network up and a real boot loader
> > running?
>
> ääääh...wasnt that a device made for the GBA ? (which btw, has been cracked
> already)
Hmm... you're probably right. It's been a while since I looked at one.
Along those same lines...
We've got a GBA adapter sitting under our GC. Presumable the boot disk for
GBA games does some sort of load-and-convert of the GB cartridge. Would it
be possible to create a custom GBA boot cartridge?
Scott
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