For years, progress in the emulation scene stagnated when in came to Game Boy Advance to GameCube connectivity; a feature used in some games. This is because the task is no easy one as it requires thorough understanding of the two systems. However, with its 0.9 release, popular GBA emulator mGBA emulator brings support for connecting to Dolphin as well as some fixes on Dolphin's end of the GBA <-> GCN protocol to improve stability when connecting with any supported GBA emulator (not just mGBA).

The official Dolphin Emulator YouTube channel released a new video today testing the feature on several games, concluding that connectivity is better than ever:

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However, a new article on the Dolphin Emulator website notes that there are certain issues with some games like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. These issues can be attributed to the latency with the current protocol. That said, the Dolphin Emulator team says that they have a plan to address those issues by integrating the emulators more closely and include mGBA features in the process like save states and netplay.

You can check the Dolphin Emulator article in the source link below for more details about this feature and for a compatibility list.

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[Craftyawesome]

I would love to play Four Swords with four players. Like, pile everything together with internet connectivity and a zipped download pack of files and be like 'here, friends, you shall now join me in reliving the glory days of Zelda multiplayer' and then I'm playing with a full group for the first time since the original release.

You might be interested in this pr https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/9600

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

[Deleted member 534570]

Praise be. It finally happened.

 

[Deleted member 194275]

question i have a real gba cable and Gamecube to PC controller adapter can we connect a real gameboy to the emulator?

Not that way. If you have devices such as gbxcart rw, or you play gb on a flashcard you can move your saves to a PC and go on from there

 

[Aheago]

Wasn't this already possible with Visualboyadvance?

So because it’s already possible somewhere else, that means no one else can do it too?

 

[XDel]

Finally a convenient way to play Four Swords!
This is fantastic News, I think I'll have my nieces over soon!

 

[MikaDubbz]

This is awesome.

So hear me out, the Wii can connect with a DS (and by extension, 3DS). If we were to put mGBA on our DS (if there even is a mGBA emulator for the DS which I'm seeing may not be the case...) and had it connect to a Wii running a modified Nintendont, could we theoretically get this setup running on a Wii/vWii and DS/3DS? Cuz that would be amazing.

 

[Deleted User]

Nice! Now if they would only add better sound quality and cheat code support to the 3DS port of mGBA...

 

[raxadian]

Will be a great feature for stuff like the pokemon games

You could already hack any third Gen Pokemon in both Gamecube games. But this is great to those who have played Third Gen games on emulation without cheating and want those games on the Gamecube games.

Nice! Now if they would only add better sound quality and cheat code support to the 3DS port of mGBA...

Funny enough the Vita version got updated very recently.

And GBA games tend to work better on the 3DS using the native 3DS hardware aka being exported to Virtual Console. Is not 100% compatible and some games have problems but so far like 90% of games work well.

 

[Gunstorm]

May be possible to use mGba and nintendont to play four sword adventure?

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

So which game benefits the most from this feature?

 

[Vila_]

yay I will finally be able to complete the golden tingle statue sidequest on ww

 

[Diego788]

hell yeah! finally I'll be able to play Pokémon Colosseum with my favorite Pokémon by connecting it to my favorite GBA emu

 

[RichardTheKing]

Holy sh - AWESOME!

Now I can finally trade between Colosseum/XD and Emerald!

 

[WeedZ]

Sweet, I've been looking for a way to emulate four swords with multiplayer.

 

[FanNintendo]

YES! About time I was trying to play Pac-Man vs. I needed a gba connection which I'm on vWii

 

[Thejax]

Anybody have a working list of every gba kink cable supported game?

 

[spkatsi]

I had just the setup:
x1 GameCube
x1 Zelda Four Swords Adventures
x4 GBA consoles (Green through custom shell, Blue, Purple and pinky Red)
x4 GBA-to-GC cables, all official
was "only" missing x3 Friends who will play this.

Can't say how happy I am with this. Any community to schedule a full playthrough?

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Does this work with the mobile version of mgba(does mgba even have a mobile version?)

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does mgba even have a mobile version?)

No, it doesn't, i confused it with another emulator

 

[Garro]

I remember there was a fork of VisualBoy Advance that allowed for Link Cable capabilities with Dolphin (VBA-M iirc). It's nice that we're getting some diversity for that feature though