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The ultimate GBA accessory..
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:00 pm
by Grendel
..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 ?
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 6:50 pm
by STRESSTEST
And the everyday use is?
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:02 pm
by Krom
You would be the first to claim a $30,000 dollar game console?
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:15 pm
by Mr. Perfect
I think this picture about sums it up.
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:39 pm
by roid
did i miss something krom? it's only $199US max
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:52 pm
by Avder
What is that on the bottom? A lego-wheels thingie? o_O
Re: The ultimate GBA accessory..
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 11:07 pm
by Krom
[Grendel] wrote:...makes a neat dashboard device.
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:04 am
by BUBBALOU
STRESSTEST wrote:And the everyday use is?
That you can still be cheap and not buy a real PC!, I guess
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:43 am
by Grendel
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
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 12:19 pm
by JMEaT
No thanks!!
*goes back to playing FFTA*
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:50 am
by roid
why not just use a PDA?
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:35 pm
by Krom
Because thats no fun.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 1:55 am
by Tricord
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
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:25 am
by Sage
so what, do you have to type with an on screen keyboard?
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:03 am
by Admiral LSD
No, you write the code on a PC and (I assume) download it to the flash ROM on the card. :rolleyes:
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:09 am
by Kyouryuu
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?
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 3:19 pm
by fliptw
id just like to make the gba into an mp3 player.
that would be neat.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 4:46 pm
by Battlebot
note the music button which is an mp3 player
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 6:18 pm
by Grendel
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:45 pm
by Kyouryuu
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:15 am
by Kyouryuu
You might also find this amusing:
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?si ... 86&tid=207
Overclocking a GBA to play SNES games
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:43 am
by roid
hey that is even cooler, good find kyouryuu (arg it's easier to spell SOL)