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Hardware > Joystick Drivers?

#34453 - WillyWonka - Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:55 pm

My writable cart came with a GBA->USB cable and I was just wondering, has anyone made windows joystick drivers so that you can use the actual gameboy to play games running in an emulator? That way I could just show the game on a large screen yet still get the same playing experience.

#34473 - tepples - Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:58 am

Yes, in theory it'd be possible to make a driver that links USB to GBA serial cables with DirectInput, interacting with the GBA in much the same way that the Game Boy Player interacts with a GBA plugged into one of the GameCube's controller ports, but nobody has done it yet. I test with an N64 controller through a USB adapter.
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#36671 - Vertex - Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:04 pm

Hi!
http://devgba.snowcristals.net/index.php/GBA_Joystick_Tutorial
It's german, but I think you can test it too.
cu olli

#40308 - skykiz - Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:30 am

Vertex wrote:
Hi!
http://devgba.snowcristals.net/index.php/GBA_Joystick_Tutorial
It's german, but I think you can test it too.
cu olli


It's more easy way to realize GBA to GamePad as ...

http://www.teamknox.com/ula/ula.html

#40309 - cocole - Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:38 am

If your cart is an EZFA then Borden made a driver for ya.

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EZFA Keyboard Emulator


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EZFA Keyboard Emulator is a software tool to test Keyboard Emulating function between PC and GBA by EZFA Cable. This function will be integrated to the new version of EZFA Client in the near future.

1,Software List
KeyBoardemu.exe KeyBoard Emulator Program
EZFAKemu.gba Keyboard Emulator run on GBA

2,Preparation
GBA Emulator software installed on your PC(such as VisualBoyAdvance)
EZFA Client installed on your PC
EZFA Cable and EZFA Cart

3,Operation Instruction
a,Connect your PC with GBA by EZFA Cable
b,Run EZFA Client
c,Download EZFAKemu.gba to GBA and run it. You could run it in two ways, one way is to download EZFAKemu.gba as a normal GBA game,and anothe way is to download EZFAKemu.gba directly to GBA RAM and run it.You could get download details in EZAF User's Guid.
d,Close EZFA Client
e,Run KeyBoardEmu.exe
f,Choose a key for each button on GBA,and set keyboard map by clicking KeyMap
g,Click Hook button to make above keyboard-map setting effect.Stop button to disable keyboard map
h,Open GBA Emulator,and set the corresponding Joypad map as the keyboard map just set on EZFA Keyboard Emulator
k,Play your game in GBA Emulator


http://www.gba-toys.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39
Download it from here :
http://www.afdac.org/get.php?dl=EZFAKeyboard