gamecube broadband adapter

[lookfun78]

Any one ever use this. I never knew there was one till I looked at game stop web site today. Is it worth it since it's 0.99 or is it just crap? If it's worth it any good games for this use?

[SPAZ-12]

I have one, but I've never used it. Two of my friends have them as well; they used to play Phantasy Star Online when the servers were still up, the only online game for the Gamecube.

I hope to get a second one sometime, because I hear that you can link Gamecubes to play eight-player Mario Kart. I don't know of any other games that use the thing, plus you'd need a second Gamecube, tv, adapter, etc. to use it, so it's probably not that useful to you. Though, at $1, why wouldn't you buy it?

[buzz_n64]

Did you manage to pick one up? I checked out the site right now, and it says Currently Not Available Online. Not at any stores around me either. Great deal, but too late.

[Dr. Dib]

The broadband adaptor could be used by a few games. PSO could use it to play online as you may have guessed. Mario Kart Double Dash, Kirby's Air Ride, and 1080: Avalanche could use it to play LAN games. With Warp Pipe you could use it to technically play those games online. I'd probably pick it up for 99 cents for that reason alone.

[ubersaurus]

That thing is worth it for Mario Kart alone. It can't be too hard to find a friend who also has a gamecube and that game if you already have the player numbers to start with (and if these adapters are only a buck each) ;p

[Logicdustbin]

allegedly you can stream 'back-up' games to the gamecube with the bb adapter.

also, I think you can still play PSO on the GC with the hacked sever, I think you need an action replay to change the setting for the game tho...

[Jorpho]

allegedly you can stream 'back-up' games to the gamecube with the bb adapter.That was also my understanding. But I thought this adapter was horribly rare and expensive generally. Is it really only 99 cents now?

[ProgrammingAce]

If i'm not mistaken, you need a setup disc to go along with the adapter...

[SPAZ-12]

I think it's still expensive most places, when you can find it. I was pretty happy when I found mine on eBay for $2 (plus $15 shipping from Brazil).

[MarioMania]

I found one at Gamecrazy for like under $5..I have one for sale, I don't really need it

[nensondubois]

I bough one since you can it to hack Gamecube games if you have PSO.

[lazyhoboguy]

If i'm not mistaken, you need a setup disc to go along with the adapter...

I own a broadband adapter. You do not need a starup disc. You must be thinking of the gameboy player which uses a startup disc. The Broadband adapter can be used still to play phantasy star online on community run servers. Also, LAN GC games can be tunneled online with various programs. There are only 3 LAN GC games which Dr.Dib listed already in this thread. I have used Xlink Kai (A LAN tunneling program) to play Mario Kart: Double Dash online. The problem is that GC games are designed so that if you tunnel them long distances the frame rate drops horribly and makes them unplayable. If you live in the same state or something the games are playable though. I recorded videos of both before.

Here is the slow motion frame rate example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAgX5Wy3_Cs

and here is an example of when it works when it was tunneled only 60 miles. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al8mY-7NBbY

[Icarus Moonsight]

I think he meant you need a set-up disk to run backups through the BB adapter. Now I have something to look up.

I bought some right after the Wii launched. They're still in the package... I wouldn't think these are as HTF as the DC BB adapter. I've been hunting one of them for a long while now.

[Kiddo]

I have had a Gamecube BBA for a very long time now, and having it is part of why I haven't ditched my Gamecube yet - the PSO games can't be played using wht Wii since the Wii has no port for the BBA.
At the time I went to find it, BBAs were difficult to obtain and I was lucky to see one in a retail store.

I also remember the exploit used to play backup games - it could be done using the initial releases of Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1 and 2 hooked up to a computer with the appropriate PC-side applications. Streaming backup games using this method was rather laggy, though, so games which streamed a lot of data constantly were difficult to play.

[Jorpho]

I also remember the exploit used to play backup games - it could be done using the initial releases of Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1 and 2 hooked up to a computer with the appropriate PC-side applications. Streaming backup games using this method was rather laggy, though, so games which streamed a lot of data constantly were difficult to play.Last I heard, they'd figured out a way to unlock some faster, higher-bandwidth streaming mode.