Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Paper Card Reader boot load?

[Scott M. <sc...@li...>]

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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