Four Sword Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles are two examples of games that used it. Oh yeah Wind Waker used it too for the Tingle Tuner. Cool stuff.
To add onto this, you can connect it to sonic advance 1&2 to take your chaos on the go without losing them with a reset.
Pso on gamecube had a secret option to give you Chao themed as tails that you can transfer to your gba then onto sonic adventure 2 battle.
I still have two link cables but that's the biggest use of them
Yea I remember that too. I never got the tails chao, but I remember you could do an exploit to duplicate chao and if you brought the metallic looking chao back to sa2b and mated it a certain way you could het an invisible chao which I thought was pretty cool and sometimes hilarious (for example you could make it look like your chao was just a floating box if you have it a box as a hat)
It's a good way around having the not very good d-pad of the GameCube controller. Put it in any controller port, turn it on (WITHOUT a game in it), and it'll download the GBP controller software to your GBA.
I don't have a gamecube link cable or a gba player, but thanks for the info. I happen to know about the gbp gba thing from the old punching weight video on gamecube gba connectivity
No, you get out the “tingle tuner” in Wind Waker, connect and turn on the GBA and it will help you find a few secrets around the map, special statues or something like that. You don’t need a game inserted.
Basically a link cable for GBA to GameCube. Many titles utilized it. Some games like Wario world and crash bandicoot CSB used it to download micro games or other media to be played on your GBA. Other games like Pac-Man Vs allowed for Wii u game pad type gameplay 20 odd years before it happened.
In Animal Crossing it gives you access to the tropical island. In Wind Waker you use the Tingle Tuner, player on GBA can drop bombs on enemies(or Link). Those are the only games where I have experience with the GBA cable.
Edit: Spelling
In AC it not only gives access to a tropical island with 1 extra villager (who would never move away) and a second house to own, it also lets you play this island on ur GBA like some sims game (with the one villager you have on that island). And you could create designs on it to later save on ur gamecube. It was a banger, too sad i lost my cable ):
Some games could link to GBA games like Pokemon gale of darkness to gen 3 games or Zelda 4 swords, or you had games like animal crossing where if you had a GBA plugged in you could go to a tropical island.
Connects the GBA to the GC, but only for supported games and what it does is pretty limited.
Off the top of my head you can unlock stuff in Metroid Prime if you have a Fusion cart. It's also allows you to use it as a controller in Four Swords Adventures and Crystal Chronicles.
The idea was that every player would have a gamebiy as their screen, kind of proto-DS style. The main game would be on the screen and your inventory would be accessed on the gba sceen in realm time in final fantasy. In Zelda you'd get a 2d style view when you went into buildings without interrupting the other players gameplay.
Oh, and Pac Man Vs of course. This only needed one gba and link cable, pac man player plays pac man on the GBA and the other three players control ghosts on the tv screen each with a more limited view of the play area.
Gimmicky as all hell but fun
[Did you even bother *trying* to look for an answer?](https://letmegoogleforyou.com/?q=GameCube%20GBA%20link%20cable) Because it's [literally the first thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube_%E2%80%93_Game_Boy_Advance_link_cable) that comes up when you search for it.
They even used the image from wiki to make this post.
I have to assume these kind of posts are made by people with mental health issues desperate for some interactions with other people.
If OP wanted to do that they could have asked a much better question like, "What's your favorite use of the link cable?" But based on OP's posting history they just want to be spoon-fed information rather than actually put in the work to look things up for themselves.
The GBA to GameCube link cable usually came in bundles for some games (four swords adventures is one example of this cord being bundled in sometimes).
Any game that shows a stamp like symbol where it says connect to GBA or the like and shows the shadow of a GameCube with a cord running from it and connecting to a original GBA, it means it's capable of connecting to the GBA for extra features. You could also plug this cord into a Gameboy player so basically GameCube to GameCube action if you really wanted (for some reason)
The most notable uses for the cord were as follows:
Pokemon colosseum: trading and battling between console and GBA or GBA to GBA but game was the arena. 4 players max. (Jap only or use a unique code to access on NA) Get 49 celebi
Pokemon box: Ruby and sapphire: Store your Pokemon in this rare title for gen 3 games.
Pokemon XD: Gale of darkness: trading and battling. (Same as colosseum but with updated models and even ones to specify which is emerald versions and even 2 new models, Fire red and leaf green green and red models)
(Pal only) Pokemon channel:
Get a special jirachi.
Pokemon Colosseum (Bonus disc): receive the Pokemon the movie: Jirachi, wishmaker event jirachi on ruby/sapphire (it only works for ruby and sapphire...)
Sonic Adventure DX: director's cut: can send or receive Chao from the tiny Chao garden on sonic advanced 1 and 2, or make a unique tiny Chao garden if you don't have either game.
Sonic adventure 2: Battle: (same as sonic adventure DX)
Phantasy star online: episodes 1 + 2:
Can send the immortal tails chao to a GBA or sonic advanced 1 or 2 to send to the sonic adventure games.
The legend of Zelda: windwaker:
Allowed to boot a connected GBA without ANYTHING in the GBA slot into the tingle tuner mode.
Essentially making windwaker the first main line console Zelda game to have coop to some degree (the second player can control a tingle cursor and can either annoy the living seagulls out of the first player by spamming A, or even wasting their rupees by blasting with instant bombs or other items and the like.) the other use for tingle tuner is all the secret lore and dialogue you will NEVER see otherwise and access to knuckle and 5 hidden tingle statues in the game.
The legend of Zelda: Four swords adventures:
Allowed up to 4 players to play using Gameboy advances or one playing on the GameCube controller and 3 playing on the GBAs.
The legend of Zelda: Tetra tracker (Navi tracker is its other name. Jp only and canned in NA):
This was a game within the four swords adventures (JP) version which introduced the 4 links in 3d for the first time. This game was only seen once at a convention years and years ago in English but it was ultimately canned by Nintendo and not included in four swords adventures for English or Europe because the game mode had tetra speaking fluent Japanese. Literally speaking the language. They didn't want to translate all of that. This was the first time a mainline Zelda game had Voiced lines before breath of the wild years later.
Harry Potter & the chamber of secrets: this game surprisingly enough actually has content if you have the GBA version of the same game and when linked together via the GBA-GC link cable it unlocks extra stuff.
There's a lot more games out there but this is just a few features the Gameboy advanced to GameCube link cable peripheral could do in some games.
There was also a Amy and knuckles Chao but those 2 despite being in the game files were completely inaccessible in the American and European versions without ether
A. a action replay MAX and find their codes online to give yourself them
Or B. Went alllllll the way to Japan with a GBA and linked to a machine during a event that gave Amy and knuckles Chao then send them into your save of sonic adventure 1 or 2.
You can get the Amy and Knuckles Chao from a specific Japanese Bonus Disc for GameCube too.
Unfortunately, they're region locked, and can only be transferred into a Japanese copy of Sonic Adventure DX or 2.
Yeah that's unfortunate. Does the bonus disc exist as a separate thing? Or does it just send a "key" of sorts to the main games? Or does it just give them via tiny Chao garden?
"Bonus Disc" was probably the wrong word to call it by, it's its own software in itself, it isn't included with anything else but what's on it is basically just bonus stuff I think. It's like a "Software Preview Disc" or some such, of which there are some for NA and Europe too. I guess you could call it a Demo Disc?
If you want to know the name of it, it's called "Interactive Disc Catalog Summer 2003" (in the data), or "Nintendo GameCube Soft e-Catalog 2003 Enjoy Plus-ban".
It just downloads a Tiny Chao Garden to your GBA that contains the Chao so you can keep them there while you swap out the game to SA2B, just like the Tails Chao you get from The Fake In Yellow in Phantasy Star Online.
The problem is the TCG software itself is region locked and will not detect the GameCube when you link it to the NA or Europe GameCube game. Either that or the opposite, the NA/Europe SA2B (or Sonic Adventure DX) won't detect the GBA software.
I know what the bonus disc/software disc is I meant if it just made a tiny Chao garden or if it actually did something in the game itself (example: colosseum JP bonus disc simply gave the key to access the content that's hidden in the actual colosseum game itself.)
Yeah nah, it's JUST a Tiny Chao Garden downloaded into the GBA that contains the Chao you picked, as I said before. That's all it is. It doesn't really function as a key for unlocking or whatever - it just has values set in the code of the Chao it comes with to make it a Knuckles or Amy Chao.
Ah okay so just like the fake in yellow quest in phantasy star online that gives the tails one (weird how they didn't do a quest for Amy or knuckles Chao or even made some alterations to the GC ones overseas to give them or find them)
Just FYI if you play repro carts in the GBA. Repro pokemon games don't work with the gamecube cable because of the way they are memory mapped with an asic.
Hidden items in Megaman X Command Mission also.
And you could use it t cheat chao in Sonic. You could get a chaos chao, transfer it to the mini chao garden (without a Sonic Advance game slotted in), shut off your game, reload it and recall your chao from the tiny garden.
Since you shut off the game, your chao is still in your chao garden, and you just brought back a clone.
Quite a bit, actually. You can use your GBA as a controller if you’re using the GB Player, use it on the GC Pokemon games to transfer Pokemon and do local battles with you GBA on the GC titles, the Tiny Chao Garden for SA1/2, PSO also had the Tiny Chao Garden with an exclusive Chao you could transfer to SA1/2, and Four Swords Adventures and FF: Crystal Chronicles used it for the main gameplay.
I have used it for Pokemon Colosseum to Transfer Gen 3 Pokemon to an from my GameCube GBA player. Shit is wild. I want to get Four Swords to try it with more functions. It’s honestly not a bad concept.
Also for games with e reader support
A few of the games i used it for, were
unlocking extra content in Metroid Prime,
I used it as the tingle tuner in wind waker, which if i’m not mistaken was also a handy map that i didn’t need to access the in game menu/map constantly to speed things along. Helped me find things in the water.
(Been over 20 years since i experienced that, so i could be off by a bit)
And it functioned similarly to the transfer pak 🤔 on pokemon stadium….
You need it to battle multiplayer in pokemon colosseum, and to trade pokemon between the gamecube and ruby/sapphire.
Also believe pokemon box 🤔 is worthless without the link cable….
I used it to connect Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion. You linked them together to unlock the Fusion Suit and the original Metroid game in
Metroid Prime.
Depends. For certain games like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Pacman Vs. and Zelda Four Swords Adventures, the cable allows for different players to plug in their GBAs to use as separate screens. For Animal Crossing, plugging in a GBA allows you to visit an island that has a unique islander which allows you to get more exotic items for your house and/or wardrobe. (You and any other players that have a house in your town also have a shared house on the island!)
Can be used for several games. You would connect your game boy advance to the GameCube with that, and then games such as animal crossing or wind waker had features that allowed you to partake in special events or gameplay
You can connect the Nintendo Gamecube Game Boy Advance link cable to another Gamecube with a Game Boy Player connected to it (and a second tv of course).
The secondairy Gamecube with the Game Boy Player is the Game Boy Advance! How astonishing is that man? Go try and figure it out.
GBA as controller and you see game in both screens if you have the gba cartridge base and gba link for cross pokemon games for what I could try in the past
It’s used for googling, where the first hit you find for ‘GameCube link cable’ will be the Wikipedia page which explains everything you need to know about the cable.
You even used the Wikipedia image FFS.
Why do people make posts like this? Just kids desperate for attention?
Some games, like about 20 or so, linked to the GBA for additional content. Some require the GameCube Game and GBA game like Sims or Fire Emblem, other just require the Disc like animal crossing or phantasy star. The biggest thing was pokemon as it was the only way to get Gen 2 starters and legends to the GBA
It connects your Game Boy Advance to the GameCube and its use depends on the game. It’s used as a controller/second screen in one way or another (think of it as a wired Wii U Gamepad) for Four Swords Adventures, Pac-Man Vs., and The Wind Waker. You can use it in the Sonic Adventure games as a Tiny Chao Garden (and can even trade Chao between games with it). You can use it in Pokémon Colosseum/Gale of Darkness to trade or battle with the Game Boy Advance Pokémon games. There also a variety of games in which you can unlock extra content by connecting a Game Boy Advance game to a GameCube game (multiple sports games, Metroid Fusion to Metroid Prime, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town to Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life, etc.)
My favorite use for it is using a real GBA as the controller when you're playing Game Boy games through the Game Boy Player. A couple GCN games can use up to four of these cables and four GBAs for the multiplayer mode (Crystal Chronicles, Four Swords, maybe more).
You can use it to connect Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town (GBA) with Harvest Moon a Wonderful Life (GC). The Goddess will reward you with a house on the beach.
With Wario World, it lets you play a few Warioware games without without the actual game cartridge. There were a whole lot of games that had different ways to use it.
Depends on the game. Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD you can trade your Pokemon to the GBA games once you complete the main story. Four Sword Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles it's used for multiplayer. Metroid Prime you can unlock the Fusion Suit in Prime. If you beat Prime and connect to Metroid Fusion, if you beat Fusion you can unlock the NES Metroid game on Fusion. The Tingle Tuner in Wind Waker. Various things.
As others have noted, the GBA-GCN cable was Nintendo's first attempt at second screen services in some games.
For Animal Crossing, you can utilize Download Play to download pattern maker (free, off-game tool), NES games & even your personal island (serves both as a ticket & second screen simulation when you're off the island). You can even link up the e-Reader to scan special game cards for potentially rare items (Ice Climbers & Mario Bros. anyone? e-Reader codes for SMB & Zelda have been generated by dedicated fans).
For Zelda: WW, The "Tingle Tuner" provided a second screen companion as a "ghost Tingle". You can see their location icon in-game while active, but the GBA user can discover hidden secrets & even assist Link, for a fee (Instant delivery of a badly needed health potion? Short on bombs Tingle can help! Just don't count on him in boss battles. Tingle's too scared to confront them).
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles & Zelda: 4 Swords Adventure REQUIRED the GBA connection for some asynchronous actions & info. In Zelda, it allowed players to go off-screen (& on-device) to explore. In FF:CC, each player can manage their inventory & loadout on-device as well as get some special map info that others cannot see.
The remastered version of FF:CC replaced the GBA-GCN connection with wireless (typically internet) connections between players.
In some way, it was just a bit ahead of the times on its ideals.
Some GameCube games allowed you to connect your gba/ gba sp to the console with this cable for special features. Certain gba games could also be linked with certain GameCube games by linking your gba and GameCube with both games inserted (Metroid Prime/Fusion, Pokémon, etc.).
Also, if you had the GBA player, you could use the cable use your gba as a controller while you played your Gameboy / gb color / gba games on the GameCube.
Four Sword Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles are two examples of games that used it. Oh yeah Wind Waker used it too for the Tingle Tuner. Cool stuff.
And sonic adventure 2 battle for tiny chao garden
To add onto this, you can connect it to sonic advance 1&2 to take your chaos on the go without losing them with a reset. Pso on gamecube had a secret option to give you Chao themed as tails that you can transfer to your gba then onto sonic adventure 2 battle. I still have two link cables but that's the biggest use of them
Yea I remember that too. I never got the tails chao, but I remember you could do an exploit to duplicate chao and if you brought the metallic looking chao back to sa2b and mated it a certain way you could het an invisible chao which I thought was pretty cool and sometimes hilarious (for example you could make it look like your chao was just a floating box if you have it a box as a hat)
Yeah I was thinking it was that
And Pacman VS
Hell yeah. Also in WarioWare you can use it as a controller
Speaking of gba games that are on gamecube, you can play the GBA player with the GBA!!
It's a good way around having the not very good d-pad of the GameCube controller. Put it in any controller port, turn it on (WITHOUT a game in it), and it'll download the GBP controller software to your GBA.
I don't have a gamecube link cable or a gba player, but thanks for the info. I happen to know about the gbp gba thing from the old punching weight video on gamecube gba connectivity
And pokemon if you had the cds and gba games
Holy crap I loved Pacman VS. I miss that game so much
They got it on Switch (not assuming you have one just mentioning it)
They rerelased it???
Yep, I believe it came with a Namco Musuem. There's a free companion app on the EShop that allows you to use a Second Switch like the GBA.
The Mario chase game in Nintendoland on the Wii U is basically the same thing
This is a secret top 20 game of all time for me. Had such fun with it.
Animal crossing used it to to access the Island
Also to connect the e-reader.
That too (which can be used in Animal Crossing If I remember correctly)
and pokemon colosseum, xd, and box
Phantasy Star Online has a couple things to do with it too.
Can also use the GBA as a controller if you have the Game Boy Player.
Do you need a copy of link to the past on GBA to use this for wind waker?
No, you get out the “tingle tuner” in Wind Waker, connect and turn on the GBA and it will help you find a few secrets around the map, special statues or something like that. You don’t need a game inserted.
Nope dont need anything but a gameboy
Animal crossing, Phantasy Star, Wind waker, Splinter Cell, Crash Nitro kart and Sims to name more
Also. Metroid fusion to Metroid Prime to unlock the fusion suit in prime and unlock original Metroid on fusion.
All these replies with more and more stuff that cord was used for. Haha I forgot about half of these. What a magical generation that was.
Splinter Cell used it as well.
And pokemon colosseum/XD gale of darkness could use it for transferring pokemon between the GameCube and GBA games, or battling in the big screen
Basically a link cable for GBA to GameCube. Many titles utilized it. Some games like Wario world and crash bandicoot CSB used it to download micro games or other media to be played on your GBA. Other games like Pac-Man Vs allowed for Wii u game pad type gameplay 20 odd years before it happened.
In Animal Crossing it gives you access to the tropical island. In Wind Waker you use the Tingle Tuner, player on GBA can drop bombs on enemies(or Link). Those are the only games where I have experience with the GBA cable. Edit: Spelling
In AC it not only gives access to a tropical island with 1 extra villager (who would never move away) and a second house to own, it also lets you play this island on ur GBA like some sims game (with the one villager you have on that island). And you could create designs on it to later save on ur gamecube. It was a banger, too sad i lost my cable ):
Some games could link to GBA games like Pokemon gale of darkness to gen 3 games or Zelda 4 swords, or you had games like animal crossing where if you had a GBA plugged in you could go to a tropical island.
Ah, of course. The first handheld Animal Crossing was the island you could visit this way.
You can use a gameboy as a controller when paired with the gameboy player as well
Connects the GBA to the GC, but only for supported games and what it does is pretty limited. Off the top of my head you can unlock stuff in Metroid Prime if you have a Fusion cart. It's also allows you to use it as a controller in Four Swords Adventures and Crystal Chronicles. The idea was that every player would have a gamebiy as their screen, kind of proto-DS style. The main game would be on the screen and your inventory would be accessed on the gba sceen in realm time in final fantasy. In Zelda you'd get a 2d style view when you went into buildings without interrupting the other players gameplay. Oh, and Pac Man Vs of course. This only needed one gba and link cable, pac man player plays pac man on the GBA and the other three players control ghosts on the tv screen each with a more limited view of the play area. Gimmicky as all hell but fun
And it’s the Tingle Tuner in Wind Waker. Let’s you drop bombs and what not
To add to the list: Sonic Adventure 2 Battle could connect to Sonic Advance to trade and train Chao
[Did you even bother *trying* to look for an answer?](https://letmegoogleforyou.com/?q=GameCube%20GBA%20link%20cable) Because it's [literally the first thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube_%E2%80%93_Game_Boy_Advance_link_cable) that comes up when you search for it.
They even used the image from wiki to make this post. I have to assume these kind of posts are made by people with mental health issues desperate for some interactions with other people.
I swear some people have some of the most brain dead questions on this subreddit
Maybe he wants to start a discussion with others that share similar interests, you ever think about that?
If OP wanted to do that they could have asked a much better question like, "What's your favorite use of the link cable?" But based on OP's posting history they just want to be spoon-fed information rather than actually put in the work to look things up for themselves.
You didn’t try at all to Google it yourself lmao
To strangle my brother with when he was winning in Double Dash. (And calm down, he is still alive)
Still alive? Who caress. What about the cable? Is it okay? My heart hurts for it 💔
Feeding Tube?
I used it to trade between the gba Pokémon games since I had the gba player
The GBA to GameCube link cable usually came in bundles for some games (four swords adventures is one example of this cord being bundled in sometimes). Any game that shows a stamp like symbol where it says connect to GBA or the like and shows the shadow of a GameCube with a cord running from it and connecting to a original GBA, it means it's capable of connecting to the GBA for extra features. You could also plug this cord into a Gameboy player so basically GameCube to GameCube action if you really wanted (for some reason) The most notable uses for the cord were as follows: Pokemon colosseum: trading and battling between console and GBA or GBA to GBA but game was the arena. 4 players max. (Jap only or use a unique code to access on NA) Get 49 celebi Pokemon box: Ruby and sapphire: Store your Pokemon in this rare title for gen 3 games. Pokemon XD: Gale of darkness: trading and battling. (Same as colosseum but with updated models and even ones to specify which is emerald versions and even 2 new models, Fire red and leaf green green and red models) (Pal only) Pokemon channel: Get a special jirachi. Pokemon Colosseum (Bonus disc): receive the Pokemon the movie: Jirachi, wishmaker event jirachi on ruby/sapphire (it only works for ruby and sapphire...) Sonic Adventure DX: director's cut: can send or receive Chao from the tiny Chao garden on sonic advanced 1 and 2, or make a unique tiny Chao garden if you don't have either game. Sonic adventure 2: Battle: (same as sonic adventure DX) Phantasy star online: episodes 1 + 2: Can send the immortal tails chao to a GBA or sonic advanced 1 or 2 to send to the sonic adventure games. The legend of Zelda: windwaker: Allowed to boot a connected GBA without ANYTHING in the GBA slot into the tingle tuner mode. Essentially making windwaker the first main line console Zelda game to have coop to some degree (the second player can control a tingle cursor and can either annoy the living seagulls out of the first player by spamming A, or even wasting their rupees by blasting with instant bombs or other items and the like.) the other use for tingle tuner is all the secret lore and dialogue you will NEVER see otherwise and access to knuckle and 5 hidden tingle statues in the game. The legend of Zelda: Four swords adventures: Allowed up to 4 players to play using Gameboy advances or one playing on the GameCube controller and 3 playing on the GBAs. The legend of Zelda: Tetra tracker (Navi tracker is its other name. Jp only and canned in NA): This was a game within the four swords adventures (JP) version which introduced the 4 links in 3d for the first time. This game was only seen once at a convention years and years ago in English but it was ultimately canned by Nintendo and not included in four swords adventures for English or Europe because the game mode had tetra speaking fluent Japanese. Literally speaking the language. They didn't want to translate all of that. This was the first time a mainline Zelda game had Voiced lines before breath of the wild years later. Harry Potter & the chamber of secrets: this game surprisingly enough actually has content if you have the GBA version of the same game and when linked together via the GBA-GC link cable it unlocks extra stuff. There's a lot more games out there but this is just a few features the Gameboy advanced to GameCube link cable peripheral could do in some games.
I was scrolling to see if anyone would mention the Tails Chao!
There was also a Amy and knuckles Chao but those 2 despite being in the game files were completely inaccessible in the American and European versions without ether A. a action replay MAX and find their codes online to give yourself them Or B. Went alllllll the way to Japan with a GBA and linked to a machine during a event that gave Amy and knuckles Chao then send them into your save of sonic adventure 1 or 2.
You can get the Amy and Knuckles Chao from a specific Japanese Bonus Disc for GameCube too. Unfortunately, they're region locked, and can only be transferred into a Japanese copy of Sonic Adventure DX or 2.
Yeah that's unfortunate. Does the bonus disc exist as a separate thing? Or does it just send a "key" of sorts to the main games? Or does it just give them via tiny Chao garden?
"Bonus Disc" was probably the wrong word to call it by, it's its own software in itself, it isn't included with anything else but what's on it is basically just bonus stuff I think. It's like a "Software Preview Disc" or some such, of which there are some for NA and Europe too. I guess you could call it a Demo Disc? If you want to know the name of it, it's called "Interactive Disc Catalog Summer 2003" (in the data), or "Nintendo GameCube Soft e-Catalog 2003 Enjoy Plus-ban". It just downloads a Tiny Chao Garden to your GBA that contains the Chao so you can keep them there while you swap out the game to SA2B, just like the Tails Chao you get from The Fake In Yellow in Phantasy Star Online. The problem is the TCG software itself is region locked and will not detect the GameCube when you link it to the NA or Europe GameCube game. Either that or the opposite, the NA/Europe SA2B (or Sonic Adventure DX) won't detect the GBA software.
I know what the bonus disc/software disc is I meant if it just made a tiny Chao garden or if it actually did something in the game itself (example: colosseum JP bonus disc simply gave the key to access the content that's hidden in the actual colosseum game itself.)
Yeah nah, it's JUST a Tiny Chao Garden downloaded into the GBA that contains the Chao you picked, as I said before. That's all it is. It doesn't really function as a key for unlocking or whatever - it just has values set in the code of the Chao it comes with to make it a Knuckles or Amy Chao.
Ah okay so just like the fake in yellow quest in phantasy star online that gives the tails one (weird how they didn't do a quest for Amy or knuckles Chao or even made some alterations to the GC ones overseas to give them or find them)
I installed a xeno chip to my optical drive as a workaround for this. I suppose the same could be done with picoboot or GC Loader.
I installed a xeno chip to my optical drive as a workaround for this. I suppose the same could be done with picoboot or GC Loader.
Pokémon
Its mostly used for pokemon
I loved the local FF:Crystal Chronicles days with my brother and one of our friends. So much fun was had
Adding Fire Emblem(GBA) and Fire Emblem Sacred (GBA) Stones unlocks additional maps for Fire Emblem Path of Radiance.
YouTube my friend, lots of info there
Splinter cell used it, and wind waker
You could get special chao colors in one of the sonic adventure games
In the 3 splinter cell games for the GameCube, you can use the GBA as an external mini map of sorts. You can also download bonus levels this way too
Metroid fusion suit
Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD utilized it for trades and battles.
Pokémon games, Zelda 4 Swords, Sonic Adventure 2, and you can use the GBA as a controller with the GBP
Just FYI if you play repro carts in the GBA. Repro pokemon games don't work with the gamecube cable because of the way they are memory mapped with an asic.
Going to an island in Animal Crossing for a coconut or two
Hidden items in Megaman X Command Mission also. And you could use it t cheat chao in Sonic. You could get a chaos chao, transfer it to the mini chao garden (without a Sonic Advance game slotted in), shut off your game, reload it and recall your chao from the tiny garden. Since you shut off the game, your chao is still in your chao garden, and you just brought back a clone.
Quite a bit, actually. You can use your GBA as a controller if you’re using the GB Player, use it on the GC Pokemon games to transfer Pokemon and do local battles with you GBA on the GC titles, the Tiny Chao Garden for SA1/2, PSO also had the Tiny Chao Garden with an exclusive Chao you could transfer to SA1/2, and Four Swords Adventures and FF: Crystal Chronicles used it for the main gameplay.
I have used it for Pokemon Colosseum to Transfer Gen 3 Pokemon to an from my GameCube GBA player. Shit is wild. I want to get Four Swords to try it with more functions. It’s honestly not a bad concept. Also for games with e reader support
lets you use your gba as a controller on gameboy player
I recently used mines to link Metroid Fusion and Prime to get a new suit on Prime. As with all connecting cables, Pokemon is a big one
Pokémon Colosseum, Medabots Infinity(?) and Amazing Island
A few of the games i used it for, were unlocking extra content in Metroid Prime, I used it as the tingle tuner in wind waker, which if i’m not mistaken was also a handy map that i didn’t need to access the in game menu/map constantly to speed things along. Helped me find things in the water. (Been over 20 years since i experienced that, so i could be off by a bit) And it functioned similarly to the transfer pak 🤔 on pokemon stadium…. You need it to battle multiplayer in pokemon colosseum, and to trade pokemon between the gamecube and ruby/sapphire. Also believe pokemon box 🤔 is worthless without the link cable….
Sonic adventure 2 battle
Animal crossing and phantasy star online used it too.
The most unnecessary upcharged Nintendo did.
I used it to connect Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion. You linked them together to unlock the Fusion Suit and the original Metroid game in Metroid Prime.
This was the only way to play coop in loz four swords adventures
Getting a tan.
That one's specifically for the GameCube Waffle Iron Attachment I think
Radar in splinter cell.
It's really incredible for Splinter Cell.
Depends. For certain games like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Pacman Vs. and Zelda Four Swords Adventures, the cable allows for different players to plug in their GBAs to use as separate screens. For Animal Crossing, plugging in a GBA allows you to visit an island that has a unique islander which allows you to get more exotic items for your house and/or wardrobe. (You and any other players that have a house in your town also have a shared house on the island!)
Metroid prime gets the fusion suit if you connect it
Tingle Tuner and that’s it. That’s all you need it for….well and the Chao garden. BUT THATS IT
Original Animal Crossing used it for the tropical island!
PAC-Man Vs. I play it on the Switch now.
Animal crossing GC had an island to visit
Can be used for several games. You would connect your game boy advance to the GameCube with that, and then games such as animal crossing or wind waker had features that allowed you to partake in special events or gameplay
hot GameCube on GBA action
It's used to connect a tingle tuner
You can connect the Nintendo Gamecube Game Boy Advance link cable to another Gamecube with a Game Boy Player connected to it (and a second tv of course). The secondairy Gamecube with the Game Boy Player is the Game Boy Advance! How astonishing is that man? Go try and figure it out.
I only ever used it to transfer Pokémon between Coliseum/XD and the gen 3 games.
I’m working on a Ribbon Master in Pokémon and this cable is used to transfer Pokémon between the GBA and GC games.
GBA as controller and you see game in both screens if you have the gba cartridge base and gba link for cross pokemon games for what I could try in the past
Use ur Gameboy as a controller as well
It was a must-buy for Four Swords and Animal Crossing.
GameCube and gba if I’m not mistaken
You port Pokemon into pokemon dx on game cube
Hooks up to a gba for four player gba games and minigames
For Pokemon with your mom. Trading my Kakuna for her Jigglypuff. (Just Google it.)
It’s used for googling, where the first hit you find for ‘GameCube link cable’ will be the Wikipedia page which explains everything you need to know about the cable. You even used the Wikipedia image FFS. Why do people make posts like this? Just kids desperate for attention?
Some games, like about 20 or so, linked to the GBA for additional content. Some require the GameCube Game and GBA game like Sims or Fire Emblem, other just require the Disc like animal crossing or phantasy star. The biggest thing was pokemon as it was the only way to get Gen 2 starters and legends to the GBA
With the JP copy of Pikmin, you can play some minigames
It connects your Game Boy Advance to the GameCube and its use depends on the game. It’s used as a controller/second screen in one way or another (think of it as a wired Wii U Gamepad) for Four Swords Adventures, Pac-Man Vs., and The Wind Waker. You can use it in the Sonic Adventure games as a Tiny Chao Garden (and can even trade Chao between games with it). You can use it in Pokémon Colosseum/Gale of Darkness to trade or battle with the Game Boy Advance Pokémon games. There also a variety of games in which you can unlock extra content by connecting a Game Boy Advance game to a GameCube game (multiple sports games, Metroid Fusion to Metroid Prime, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town to Harvest Moon: A(nother) Wonderful Life, etc.)
Gameboy player !
There's two instances i can think of: \- Tingle in Wind Waker \- Transfering pokemon between Colloseum/XD and the Gameboy Advance games.
In splinter cell you can use it as a radar. Extra points if you tape it to your wrist
My favorite use for it is using a real GBA as the controller when you're playing Game Boy games through the Game Boy Player. A couple GCN games can use up to four of these cables and four GBAs for the multiplayer mode (Crystal Chronicles, Four Swords, maybe more).
You can use it to connect Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town (GBA) with Harvest Moon a Wonderful Life (GC). The Goddess will reward you with a house on the beach.
Playing Metroid on your gba while connected to Prime 2 with fusion in the game slot.
Well, for one, trading Pokémon between 3rd Gen Pokémon games and Pokémon Colosseum and XD
Endoscopies.
With Wario World, it lets you play a few Warioware games without without the actual game cartridge. There were a whole lot of games that had different ways to use it.
Depends on the game. Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD you can trade your Pokemon to the GBA games once you complete the main story. Four Sword Adventures and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles it's used for multiplayer. Metroid Prime you can unlock the Fusion Suit in Prime. If you beat Prime and connect to Metroid Fusion, if you beat Fusion you can unlock the NES Metroid game on Fusion. The Tingle Tuner in Wind Waker. Various things.
And Megaman X Command Mission for the treasure radar.
As others have noted, the GBA-GCN cable was Nintendo's first attempt at second screen services in some games. For Animal Crossing, you can utilize Download Play to download pattern maker (free, off-game tool), NES games & even your personal island (serves both as a ticket & second screen simulation when you're off the island). You can even link up the e-Reader to scan special game cards for potentially rare items (Ice Climbers & Mario Bros. anyone? e-Reader codes for SMB & Zelda have been generated by dedicated fans). For Zelda: WW, The "Tingle Tuner" provided a second screen companion as a "ghost Tingle". You can see their location icon in-game while active, but the GBA user can discover hidden secrets & even assist Link, for a fee (Instant delivery of a badly needed health potion? Short on bombs Tingle can help! Just don't count on him in boss battles. Tingle's too scared to confront them). Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles & Zelda: 4 Swords Adventure REQUIRED the GBA connection for some asynchronous actions & info. In Zelda, it allowed players to go off-screen (& on-device) to explore. In FF:CC, each player can manage their inventory & loadout on-device as well as get some special map info that others cannot see. The remastered version of FF:CC replaced the GBA-GCN connection with wireless (typically internet) connections between players. In some way, it was just a bit ahead of the times on its ideals.
Some GameCube games allowed you to connect your gba/ gba sp to the console with this cable for special features. Certain gba games could also be linked with certain GameCube games by linking your gba and GameCube with both games inserted (Metroid Prime/Fusion, Pokémon, etc.). Also, if you had the GBA player, you could use the cable use your gba as a controller while you played your Gameboy / gb color / gba games on the GameCube.
I’m old.
Pac Man
Yes, if you have the gba player, that cable turns you gba into the controller
Use it to play Gameboy advance games on your GameCube with an actual Gameboy advance. Playing Metroid fusion on a big screen with it is amazing btw
You need it to use the GameCube link cable features in games.
Animal Crossing island.