#8477 - Snoobab - Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:20 pm
Hi. I am planning on making a GBA multi-boot cable but don't know which GBA accessory to canibalise the male GBA plug from. Can anyone recommend a GBA accessory which has all the correct wiring etc. There are so many link cables etc to choose from on Amazon.
Thanks,
P.S. To change the topic a bit. Friends of mine r going to Singapore next week, are AGB flash linkers r available "over-the-counter" there or r they only available online?
- Ed.
#22889 - MonkeyBoy666 - Wed Jun 30, 2004 8:51 pm
you are looking for male plugs. well i couldn't find anythign so i took the orginal GB to GBC adapter(which has a female GBC port) that came with the universal link cable. So after beatign the crap out of that. i soldered it to a centronics port which i beat out of an old printer. so here is what you do just connect the centronics connector to a regular parrelle port cable to the centronics side of the adapter and uses the GBC cable plug into the female GBC port with i got form the adapter thingy mentioned above. and connect the other end of that cable to the Game Boy.
i never tested it yet. but you might need to invert the SI and SO connections form the diagram that you got
This is a round about way of doing things but i didn't want to ruin my GBC cable because most of my games are still GBC. But you could also just rip apart the cable and cut out the middle man
#22904 - ampz - Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:35 pm
Actually, I'am pretty sure the connector on the cable is female. The connector in the GBA is the male one.
#23070 - wintermute - Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:30 am
A two player gbc cable is your best bet for constructing something like an xboo cable.
Look at Xboo Communicator in the downloads section at http://www.devkit.tk the docs have a nice diagram to follow :)
#38643 - lotus49 - Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:22 pm
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have the same problem and no-one appears to have answered the original question directly.
I want a plug so I can make a cable to connect an ericsson chatboard to my GBA SP (see Timmy Brolin's keyboard advance project).
I have three link cables, none of which has the correct wires present (curiously they all had pin 1, which Timmy suggested was the one likely to be missing). I cannot keep buying link cables hoping they will work nor can I walk around the shops with my multimeter.
Is there a retailer that sells the plugs on their own? I have tried to take the plug apart on one of the link cables, but it doesn't look like I will be able to do this without destroying it.
#38668 - chishm - Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:07 am
When I made my xboo cable I used an old Nyko universal gameboy color link cable. It had a gameboy color/pocket plug on one end and a gameboy color/pocket plug + gmb plug on the other. It also had a junction box in the middle. I smashed the junction box (it was glued shut) then desoldered all 6 wires from the circuit board.
This cable has six wires, one for each pin. However, you have to test which wire goes to which pin, as the colors are not the same as on the xboo cable diagrams.
#38674 - Dwedit - Wed Mar 30, 2005 5:14 am
Would a GBC worm light work for any homemade cables?
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#38679 - ampz - Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:26 am
| lotus49 wrote: |
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I have the same problem and no-one appears to have answered the original question directly.
I want a plug so I can make a cable to connect an ericsson chatboard to my GBA SP (see Timmy Brolin's keyboard advance project).
I have three link cables, none of which has the correct wires present (curiously they all had pin 1, which Timmy suggested was the one likely to be missing). I cannot keep buying link cables hoping they will work nor can I walk around the shops with my multimeter.
Is there a retailer that sells the plugs on their own? I have tried to take the plug apart on one of the link cables, but it doesn't look like I will be able to do this without destroying it. |
It is possible to move a pin from one position to another. It is kind of tricky but it is doable.
EDIT
Oh, and I think the plug is actually female... Notice that the pins goes into the external plug, not the other way around. Compare it to a D-SUB for example.
#40366 - John at J&S - Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:13 am
You might get in touch with David Nathan at DNC. He is the creator of the Captigate, which is a small module that plugs into the multilink connector on the back of the GBA. He also has six pin cables.
http://www.educatingmario.com/hardware.htm
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#40525 - lotus49 - Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:00 pm
Excellent, thanks for the suggestion. It's the first promising lead I've had.
I'll let you know if I get anywhere.