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Beginners > need help making xboo cable

#165387 - clasic_traveller_diehard - Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:53 am

Hi! I'm new!

For the past week I have been reading everything I can find about running homebrew on my gba, and I need some advice on how to proceed with the xboo cable.

here are the resources I have available
1. a gba link cable made by pelican
2. a gbc and older universal link cable (no idea who made it)
3. a male printer connector
4. a pc that runs Ubuntu Linux 8.04
5. a laptop that runs FreeDOS

So whats the best way to go about this? I originally bought the gba cable to do this but then I heard that some 3rd party cables don't work. Will this cable work? If not will the gbc cable work instead? And which OS has the best xboo software Linux, or FreeDOS?
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#165427 - wintermute - Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:26 am

The GBC cable is more likely to have the wires you need but you might be lucky with the GBA cable, not all of them were normal mode only.

Best Xboo software for both windows & linux -> http://www.devkitpro.org/downloads/xboo-communicator/ ;)
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#165510 - clasic_traveller_diehard - Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:27 am

It worked! I ran gbacalc through the cable to test it using xboo communicator, but the dos xboo software has more features. Is there any way to run it in a dos emulator in linux or something?
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#168747 - Drag0nflamezz - Tue May 19, 2009 2:52 pm

clasic_traveller_diehard wrote:
It worked! I ran gbacalc through the cable to test it using xboo communicator, but the dos xboo software has more features. Is there any way to run it in a dos emulator in linux or something?
DOSBox?