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Hardware > Is there any usb homebrew multiboot cable?

#154708 - Sigmoid - Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:45 pm

hi everbody,

I'm newbie for gameboy advance. i want to learn gba programming. First of all, i need a multiboot cable. i am searching a cable but i don't any homemade good cable. Many of cable, lpt port and rs232 whichs are required extra component, microcontroller etc. new computers (especially laptops) dont have this ports.


i am expert on PIC microcontroller. PIC18F4550 have a usb port. I can build usb to gba multiboot cable, if i learn multiboot protocol. only i know, gba communicate 1 start, 16bit data, 1 stop bit. What do you know extra?

thanks.

#154710 - tepples - Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:26 pm

Everything you need to know in order to implement a GBA multiboot server should be in GBATEK.

One problem is that you can't install homemade drivers on 64-bit Windows anymore due to Microsoft's reliance on VeriSign for vetting driver publishers. My recommendation: implement something that the OS will recognize as a COM port, and handle as much of the translation between the USB serial device class and GBA multiboot serial as you can inside the PIC.
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