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Flash Equipment > GBA as a PC controller with USB port

#15577 - ramooon - Sun Jan 25, 2004 3:24 pm

Ok, here I am.
Hi everybody, I'll try to make it short.

I would like to use a GBA as a controller on the USB port.
I guess there's an API to do this kind of things, so as i am a REAL
beginner in the GBA world, i hope somebody here could help me.
I have strong knowledge of C/C++, the only problem is I have no
documentations about how the USB port works. I think this could be
possible without hardware addition, because all the USB protocol is
already managed by the little chip in the cable.

Here is my idea: I want to use the USB cable and a GBA to display
an audio playlist while I am in my car (the GBA is connected to a laptop,
the laptop is connected, under a seat, to the car audio system).
It will allow me to control the sound with the small GBA graphic
screen much more easily than with a laptop 15'inch screen.

Thanks for your help.
--
ramooon

#15629 - torne - Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:09 am

This would be possible, but unfortunately nobody really knows how to communicate with the F2A and other USB->GBA cables. It's no problem to write the GBA side, it's just not known how to develop a PC-side program for it. You would be able to do it using an old parallel F2A cable (if your laptop has a parallel port, or using a USB->parallel conversion cable), however, as the programming interface for that is known.