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Hardware > GBlinkdl GB/C linkport<->PC package released

#59827 - Brian Provinciano - Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:05 am

Hi All!

If you're only interested in GBA, press the back button now! heh

From the coder who brought you GBAGI, the Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter for GBA... here's a completely unreleated release, GBlinkdl!hahaha!

Anyway, I've posted on my site a new tool called GBlinkdl. GBlinkdl uses a simple 4-wire cable between the Game Boy's link port and PC's parallel port, allowing for the two devices to communicate with each other. By running GBlinkdl.gb on a flash cart and GBlinkdl.exe on your PC, you can read and write the Game Boy's memory and registers from the PC. It gives you the ability to write to a flash cart, dump cartridges, read and write save data, probe the GB, reverse engineer mappers, and more... all without any hardware modification!

You can download the GBlinkdl package at http://www.bripro.com. It includes everything you need to take control of your GB from your PC, as I've included the full source code to the PC and GB programs and the cable schematic.

If anyone is looking for example code related to the GB's link port, this is it!

#59869 - tepples - Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:12 pm

Brian Provinciano wrote:
By running GBlinkdl.gb on a flash cart

Which flash cart?
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#59895 - Brian Provinciano - Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:51 am

I have the 16MBit one that came with the PC Linker kit, but anyone should work.

#59896 - tepples - Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:57 am

Brian Provinciano wrote:
I have the 16MBit one that came with the PC Linker kit

What PC Linker kit?
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#59903 - Dwedit - Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:19 am

Could something like this dump a GBC bios, or is the bios bankswitch port locked?
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#59924 - FluBBa - Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:59 pm

I tried all 256 combinations on port 0x50 on a GBPocket and found nothing.
Or do you have any better ideas? =)
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