The ultimate GBA accessory..

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:00 pm

..for nerds tho

Check out the Xport 2.0. Heck, I'll get one and try to interface it w/ the OBD-II comp of my car -- makes a neat dashboard device.

Now, anyone w/ the "Nerds" picture handy ?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:50 pm

And the everyday use is?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:02 pm

You would be the first to claim a $30,000 dollar game console?

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:15 pm

I think this picture about sums it up.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:39 pm

did i miss something krom? it's only $199US max

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:52 pm

What is that on the bottom? A lego-wheels thingie? o_O

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:07 pm

[Grendel] wrote:...makes a neat dashboard device.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:04 am

STRESSTEST wrote:And the everyday use is?

That you can still be cheap and not buy a real PC!, I guess

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:43 am

STRESSTEST wrote:And the everyday use is?

Whatever you make out of it

In a nutshell you get a very powerfull embedded system development environment for very cheap. Great for getting kids started w/ programming (robotics) eg. Or, in my case, for hooking it up to your car to monitor the motor

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:19 pm

No thanks!!

*goes back to playing FFTA*

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:50 am

why not just use a PDA?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:35 pm

Because thats no fun.

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:55 am

Reminds me of someone buying a bunch of Xbox consoles for cheap (they were cheaper than the individual hardware pieces they were made of a while back). He would mod them as described on the internet, install Linux and make himself a server cluster using the network ports of the machines.

Or someone else used an Xbox as webserver. Cheaper than any other alternative

Sage · Post by **Sage** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:25 am

so what, do you have to type with an on screen keyboard?

Admiral LSD · Post by **Admiral LSD** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:03 am

No, you write the code on a PC and (I assume) download it to the flash ROM on the card. :rolleyes:

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:09 am

I have heard of a Game Boy Advance web server. There's also been some buzz in the Linux community about getting Linux to run on a GBA. Wouldn't that be painful?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:19 pm

id just like to make the gba into an mp3 player.

that would be neat.

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:46 pm

note the music button which is an mp3 player

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:18 pm

note the price..

roid wrote:why not just use a PDA?

Same reason and you get the FPGA w/ the Xport -- allows you to interface to almost anything w/ little effort.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:45 pm

fliptw wrote:id just like to make the gba into an mp3 player.

that would be neat.

I think they make a "Song Boy" accessory that adds MP3 support to the GBA. It's not officially sanctioned by Nintendo, of course.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:15 am

You might also find this amusing:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 86&tid=207

Overclocking a GBA to play SNES games

roid · Post by **roid** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:43 am

hey that is even cooler, good find kyouryuu (arg it's easier to spell SOL)

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