Linking VBA GX to a GBA

Hey everyone. I'm running VBA GX off an SD card via the Homebrew Channel. While playing Pokémon Red tonight, I wondered: could you connect a real GBA to the Wii and trade/battle pokémon?

I dug out my connector (a GBA to Gamecube connector), got everything ready and tested it. The GBA (also playing Pokémon Red :D ) recognized a connection immediately and told me wait. The emulated Red, however, never recognized a connection.

Is there any way to get this to work? I'd love to be able to trade and fight between my file on the GBA and my girlfriend's file on the Wii.

Thanks!

I don't think that would be possible, but then again I don't really know.

Thanks for dashing my hopes and then reviving them. :P

Does anybody else know? I mean, the emulator just needs to support an external link. It doesn't seem like it should be THAT hard.

Reverse engineering a system and recreating it virtually isn't hard?

I meant adding the ability for it to detect incoming/outgoing connections shouldn't be that hard, especially considering some of the more advanced things people are working on.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2009 09:41PM by Shredded_Papers.

that would be a good way to get pokemon you dont have on one version(considering vba gx doesnt support gameshark cheats)

As far as I know, VBA-M (which VBA GX) is based off has broken link support (or had some mounths ago). I don't know how hard it would be to add support for it in VBA GX through the GBA-GC connector if link support in VBA-M was fixed, but I'm almost certain it won't be done until it gets fixed in VBA-M.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2009 10:42PM by profetylen.

i believe the gba-gc cable uses gamecube input for controls, and i believe that the save file on the cartridge is parsed to check pokemon data, if it isnt it would be easier than actually reverse engineering the gba-gc data transfer system as there are many pokemon savefile tools available