It's time to get your import on. Nintendo puzzle collection and kurn squash have asome gba link support. I did reviews on it and if you need help I'm here for you ☺️
I do find it funny how many of my favorite content creators are telling me to shave my balls. AVGN / Cinemassacre and SomecallmeJohnny are some others! 😁
see, my friends used the tingle tuner to ruin my playthrough of Wind Waker by immediately spending all my rupees trying to troll me with Tingle bombs. That's why I don't talk about the Tingle Tuner.
The only true failure nintendo had was definitely the virtual boy. Even less succesful stuff like the gamecube and the wii U still served a purpose as building blocks for far more succesful systems.
@@tentaclesmodbut u could say the virtual boy was a setup for the 3ds. It was nintendos first system to use stereoscopic 3d. Honestly they make a lot of attempts for ideas before they become main features for their newer consoles.
I remember when i wanted to play Chrystal Chronicles with a few friends but we lacked one GBA so we got a second Gamecube with the Gameboyplayer and a second TV so we could use that as a GBA. It was pretty stupid but it worked lol
the logical conclusion of this was "The Gigaquad", a setup using a Wii, 4 Gamecubes, 4 Link Cables, two televisions, a monitor, and an array of capture cards that was used to record a Let's Play of Four Swords Adventure
When I clicked on this video, I actually wondered if you were going to cover Dakar 2. Since I was the racing guy as a kid, I hooked my friend up when he couldn't make it through the entire rally to unlock the GBA tracks. We would have time trials on the bus ride to school after loading the map to both of our systems... ah, the good old days
We each had one of the three consoles, you guessed right that I had the ps2, my buddy with the gamecube ended up getting Dakar 2 for Christmas from his grandpa and didn't have the heart to tell him he didn't like it. So, he invited me over and we made a weekend of completing the rally
that game was a lot of fun for me and a friend. We sometimes stopped properly doing the races and just tried to go anywhere and everywhere in certain maps. We didn't know what we were looking for, but we'd know when we found it. Mostly just screwing around.
Like how certain types of Pokemon appear in areas of Diamond and Pearl depending on which Gen 3 game you had plugged into the bottom of the DS? I LOVED that stuff!
On the Nintendo Channel for the Wii you used to be able to download demos for your DS, and your Wii would send it wirelessly to the DS via download play.
@@ZekeGraal i wouldn't reallt consider a 4% encounter rate all that good (at least in gengars case although iirc this was the only way in the franchise to catch one in the wild) the palpark stuff was cool... In hgss cause of no daily transfer limit.
It is legitimately the only reason I bought PSO as a kid, and man, that game stuck with me. Still the only MMO I ever really cared about, real excited for PSO2 finally reaching us.
+ChandSlam I don't usually start quests until late game on whatever difficulty I'm playing... As far as I remember you can start any time and doing quests are helpful in general in that game as it can lead to some interesting weapons. I don't remember if its actual story progress or just quest progress that unlocks more quests though. I do know that some quests take place in areas you won't have unlocked yet if you're still in the very early game.
@@ArtisChronicles Not to mention, PSO has quest lines within those quests. If you go one route, you can't take the other, unless you do that on a different difficulty.
My sister and I actually had a similar cable that was compatible with single pak and we had a gba and gba sp. Problem : We didn't know we had it. We probably missed good things 🙁
Your weird recording setup for this video reminds me of the horror stories of people attempting to record a Four Sword Adventures Let's Play... with 5 GameCubes, 4 Game Boy Players, and 5 TVs.
i'm always happy to hear someone talk about Billy Hatcher! i grew up playing that game's multiplayer mode for HOURS with my friends, and when i got older i played the story mode. the camera is pretty rough but i actually love the controls. not many games like that anymore. awesome video!
Normal Brain: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles in Single Player Galaxy Brain: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players all using GBAs Universe Brain: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players all using GameBoy Players and their own separate TVs
Me: stuffs 5 trimmed down gamecubes into one gamecube with 5 AV outs and 4 gameboy players stacked on top of eachother and controller ports on every side except the bottom
One of my favorite memories is actually playing crystal chronicles and Zelda four swords with my two other friends! The GBA link was such a weird and funky idea, and I LOVED it! Great video!
I got a buddy of mine who hated RPGs to somehow play FFCC with me. It was awesome, I wish there was more to that game thou. I always loved the idea of RPG couch co-op
"I never played Animal Crossing on the gamecube, I wonder how much it is to get now?" five seconds later "WHAT!" I'm guessing it was quite rare in the PAL regions.
In Europe it released quite late in the GameCube's lifecycle. IIRC they originally didn't think the sales would justify the cost of translating it to multiple European languages, by that time a lot of retailers had stopped stocking GameCube stuff so it wouldn't have been that widely available. Buying late GameCube games was HARD, I remember having a really tough time trying to get hold of a copy of Resident Evil 4 at release. Kinda funny now considering that game's on more platforms than Skyrim.
In the Australian release from Oct. 2003, some of the e-Reader feats still exist and that certain designs, music and NES games may have been cut down more.
So my favorite moment with link cables was a moment when we had four link cables but only three Gameboys so we used a second GameCube with its game boy player as a Gameboy for the Link cable our TV had the ability to display a second input in the corner in a small screen so we played Crystal Chronicles and four swords with this
Nintendo went a step further. They hid the patch on FireRed and LeafGreen. You only needed the button combination to access it, which is B+Select and then follow the instructions.
One of the main reasons for Wario's Woods not being available was its size, obviously as you said, but not necessarily only that. Wario's Woods was the most intensive use of the MMC3 ASIC memory mapper, and I can safely bet that chip was what made WW so hard to work with. The game is already 256k, and beside that you need to accurately emulate an MMU for an emulator, in 2001, on a GBA.
This channel feels so much different from others. In a good way. I KNOW I will learn something new, compared to other ‘information’ channels. Great work, keep it up.
The Tingle Tuner in wind waker actually means a lot to me. When me and my little brother were younger he struggled with playing the Wind Waker because he found it to hard to play. One day I received a copy of four swords on the gamecube that came bundled with the GBA Link Cable, from that day forward while I played Wind Waker my little brother would play with me using the Tingle Tuner and we would play together for hours on end like that, just wandering around and having a blast together. To this day this is still one of my favorite gaming memories and I would not trade it for anything.
Punching Weight videos are so rewatchable. Entertaining, informative, funny, snappy editing. I would watch an hourlong SSFF about the DK bongos. Or memory cards. ...and then again every couple of months later.
I remember Mad Catz made a GBA GameCube link cable that had a place for you to plug a GBA SP charger into. That's the one I used; it let me get as much play time as I wanted without needing to worry about my battery dying.
Man.. I love Billy Hatcher so damn much. Any mention of it in any video is such a blessing, and I’m glad it was showcased here. I’m still hoping for a sequel knowing it’ll never happen, but it’s such a great game and IP that deserves better treatment.
The GameCube version of SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman was originally also going to have a link cable feature that would work both with and without the GBA game of the same name. If you had the GBA game inserted when the link cable was connected to the GameCube, then you would have been able to play a 3D version of the special jellyfishing mini-game that ended up only making it to the handheld counterpart on your TV. If you had the link cable fully connected, but didn't have a copy of the handheld game inserted in the GBA, then you could have used your Game Boy Advance as a radar for when you went treasure hunting. Unfortunately, though, due to the very rough production cycle that the console version of ROTFD (which was also being developed for the Playstation 2) went through, the link cable feature was scrapped, though voice clips on how the functionality would have worked are still hiding in the GameCube version's disc files.
I have very fond memories of manning the Tingle Tuner while my big brother played Wind Waker. Awesome video, I always loved the link cable. I feel like not enough people talked about Four Swords Adventures, and I definitely got my use out of the GBA chao garden. Also I am so fucked up right now. My original GBA SP's screen broke, but you could hear from the sound that the game still ran and all the inputs worked, but since it was "broken" my brother threw it across the street and into a concrete wall, causing it to REALLY break. If I had known I could use the GBA Player I could've still used it!!!!!!
Using the link cable with my GameBoy Player is actually how I used the Tingle Tuner in WindWaker while playing it on my Wii. I then connected the GameCube up to a portable DVD Player's video input (which was plugged in) since it was the easiest way I had to get 2 screens so I could actually see the GameCube output. I however do not have friends to play with so I would just use it as a nice mini map and to buy health when I started to get low in some areas.
I do remember the windwaker gba add-on. Played at my friends house and he let me have the gba. I naturally kept bombing him while he was sailing. He got mad, and I started using the timed bombs to be a little more inconspicuous. After a bit, he went in the town and you kept hearing bombs in the distance. Good times
All really cool things. I have pretty much all of these games but didn’t know like any of this stuff. I know what I’ll be trying when I get home from work!
You can also play Pokémon Sapphire or Ruby by connecting GBA with Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby with GBA-Gamecube Cable with Gamecube with Pokémon Box game. So you can play Pokémon game on tv screen without GB Player. Easiest way to get Pokémon Box was atleast in europe with Pokémon Colosseum Bundle that had Pokémon Colosseum with Pokémon Box bundled in same game case.
When me and my brother 1st got gamecube and few games we 1st got was Sonic Adventure 2, I wondered what that GBA feature was for. But at least now I know. Plus one of these days I need to get the original GBA even though I already own the GBA SP. Awesome video and love Punching Weights. Also someday for a future video, you should cover Action Replay Add on for Sega Saturn.
I was half moved into my moms house and stuck there with nothing to do. So I actually resorted to paying gba games on my GameCube with a gba as a controller since I had no game cube controllers with me. Ever since then I've been extremely thankful for that feature
Sort of related, but the WiiWare game "Maboshi's Arcade" had something kinda like this with the DS. Not only was it a crazy unique game in its own right, but you could download one of the three games at a time to your DS (3DS works too) to take with you on the go. You'll miss out on the interactivity the three games had onscreen, but it was still a pretty neat feature, nonetheless.
That GBA Nights music is my everything. I highly recommend looking up Pokecapn - the guy who did THE Sonic '06 Let's Play - because one of the last RUclips LPs he did was of Four Swords Adventures. He and his buddies had the base game running on a Wii. They also had four GameCubes with Game Boy Players working as their GBAs. And they recorded ALL OF IT. I think they called it the HyperQuad.
I think it's also worth noting that the Tingle Tuner is an integral part of Wind Waker speedruns, as it's used for the zombie hover and some other crucial glitches On another note, I never owned a GBA link cable growing up (and neither did any of my friends for some reason), but I did have a GameCube GBA Link Cable, so we would trade pokemon by transferring them through Pokemon Colosseum; I remember that a single trade could take like 20 minutes since there were 3 or so transfers that had to be done lol
You can use Tiny Chao garden without a cartridge. This results in instead of sending your Chao to the garden normally, it creates a clone. With this, you can copy your CHao to other save files.
Great video as always, though I had to pause it and go find that GBA NiGHTS music on its own and just bask in the chill for a bit. I did come back and finish the video after tho. :)
I mean it makes sense that a game wouldn’t let you play a demo of itself as most people would think “why would you need the demo for a game you already own?”
I was digging through my pile of old cables and other video game stuff for an eternety, looking for an old GBA-GBA link cable to complete the Pokedex, couldn't find it. What I did find very early in my search was the GBA-GCN cable. Only after giving up on my search did I even think about trying to use that cable, since it has two GBA ports. Of course it works. I spent so much time, was browsing ebay for a cable for an eternety, even bought one from a loval game store, only for that cable to be broken, gave up, and THEN did I realize how amazing the GCN cable is.
I freaking loved the GBA Connectivity on the GameCube, my mom got me Sonic Advance because of this, after me playing weeks of the Tiny Chao Garden in SA2B without saving function. Also Wind Waker got even better with that thing connected to it, and not just those games but also Wario Ware Mega Games and The Sims Busting Out! Oh and don't forget the GBA works as complete functional controller for the GameBoy Player as well. Those were the days... yes... truely one of the many aspects that made me enjoy the GC and GBA so much.
Yo, I loved this thing! I used it all the time! The island was one of my favorite parts of Animal Crossing. I always used the Tingle Tuner when I wanted to play Wind Waker and I had a friend over. And the tiny chao garden (not even including the Sonic Advanced benefits) let you clone your chao and bring them from SA1 to SA2! Such an awesome peripheral.
You can use the GBA player disc and link cables to run this bonus content from one system to another. This is amazing for the best link cable use, PAC Man VS, where the pac player can get a full TV screen!
18:13 there are at least 37 of these 35 kiosk demo disc The Preview Disc you discussed A demo disc with some third party games P.S even though I don't get why and how it is supposed to work volumes 14-16 were compatible with the link cable with Pokemon ruby and sapphire so you can get a shiny zigzagoon and patch the berry glitch I say I don't know how it works cause it was a kiosk demo disc
There's a video on youtube of four guys playing Four Swords Adventures with five TVs, five Gamecubes, and four link cables. Each GC has a GBA Player attached. If you search "legend of zelda four swords five tvs" it should be the first result. Really cool that those guys were able to put that together. It's worth seeing.
When I would hang out with my best friend in middle school, we'd play four swords and other gba connected games using 1 gamecube connected to the "big" ~24inch crt with a regular gba and my gamecube/gba player setup with the little flip top attachable screen. Legitimately played Crystal Chronicles, 4 swords, Wind Waker Tingle Tuner, and even E-Reader games like this. We played hundreds of hours of Melee on that small fliptop attachable display, always on Hyrule Temple of course.
Man, I know it's an possibly expensive proposition, but I'd love to see a Punching Weight on the PC Engine Arcade Card. Feels like the exact type of stuff you guys are into on this show.
Honestly I would love to see someone like you do a video about Legend of the Dragoon for PS1. It's one of the most underrated games most people have never heard of
There was a game called Amazing Island, you created monsters by drawing on skeletons that would compete in various minigames. The minigames themselves were just okay, but the real draw was the ability to create your own monsters. The game had GBA link support, and you could transfer your monsters into a Pokemon-style card game. You could even transfer the monsters to two GBAs and battle each other through a link cable!
I did not own a GBA Link cable til 2018, I was really late to that party. But, it was totally worth transferring all of my GBA Pokemon from Sapphire to Gale of Darkness. 12 Year old me still wishes he used that cable much earlier.
I had a gba and cable , as well as windwaker. It was fun and I used it to do some grotto that had vines in it and one with a fire arrow puzzle. Would have been really fun with a friend , but that never happened.
I have a Gameboy Advance with a TV out mod. I used to plug it My Commodore 1701 composite monitor, and used to have that set up directly beneath my old CRT HD (pre-HDMI HD). I used to play Windwaker on the HD TV (480p of course), and have the GBA displayed on the bottom Commodore monitor. It was great!
I'm not sure if it was mentioned in another video but Mega Man X Command Mission also has GBA link cable support. It'll help locate hidden items called Treasure Tokens, which can be used to get figurines of the various characters.
billy hatcher was a great game. i bought it just for the cards you get from the save file in pso ep3 card revolution and ended up enjoying it quite a bit.
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Stop Skeletons From Fighting. question whens the next Quake ports for Quake 2 n64 and Quake 3 arena
It's time to get your import on. Nintendo puzzle collection and kurn squash have asome gba link support. I did reviews on it and if you need help I'm here for you ☺️
I do find it funny how many of my favorite content creators are telling me to shave my balls. AVGN / Cinemassacre and SomecallmeJohnny are some others! 😁
It's actually really easy to replace your VMU batteries, but yeah, there's not much of a reason to buy new ones these days.
I ended up in one of your videos haha wow. That really surprised me when it came up!
Glad to hear you were able to unlock the minigame with ease, thanks for the shoutout my dude!
Come down to Seattle, we’ll play some Wheelis!!
Whoah... Crossover of the century 👀
How wholesome of 2 gamers to unite just to unlock some things in a rayman game...
see, my friends used the tingle tuner to ruin my playthrough of Wind Waker by immediately spending all my rupees trying to troll me with Tingle bombs.
That's why I don't talk about the Tingle Tuner.
I'm guilty of doing essentially this with one of my friends.
It's probably why we're not friends anymore.
I did this. It was an accident though, I didn't realize it used up rupees.
Loool
having done exactly this back in the day, lmfao, shit was high-larious.
The first rule of fight club.... err sorry. Misread that
"No one fails better than nintendo"
That's a good line.
Great video, thanks.
Agreed, very good and thoughtful.
You can’t succeed without trying. And Nintendo tries a lot of things, experiments a lot, so they keep succeeding at innovating.
The only true failure nintendo had was definitely the virtual boy. Even less succesful stuff like the gamecube and the wii U still served a purpose as building blocks for far more succesful systems.
@@tentaclesmodbut u could say the virtual boy was a setup for the 3ds. It was nintendos first system to use stereoscopic 3d. Honestly they make a lot of attempts for ideas before they become main features for their newer consoles.
Derek getting so genuinely enthused over the most obscure and/or trivial tidbits in games is why this is one of my favorite channels.
I remember when i wanted to play Chrystal Chronicles with a few friends but we lacked one GBA so we got a second Gamecube with the Gameboyplayer and a second TV so we could use that as a GBA. It was pretty stupid but it worked lol
So was that like getting the madcatz controller, or was it better?
@@mikekazz5353 apart from it being way too convoluted, it was great! You didn't need to look on this tiny screen and could use a Gamecube controller.
the logical conclusion of this was "The Gigaquad", a setup using a Wii, 4 Gamecubes, 4 Link Cables, two televisions, a monitor, and an array of capture cards that was used to record a Let's Play of Four Swords Adventure
* lacks GBA *
* has a spare GCN and TV lying around *
Makes sense
uh.... how do you plug in the link cable tho?
*Didn’t You Know?* The tingle tuner was actually a great way to cheat on the flight control mini game
The original P2W.
The manscaped ads are my favorite bc of all the ways everyone tries to not say ""pubic hair"
Great video!
"The SWAMP is REAL!"
I really didn’t need to know how well Derek’s swamp thing was maintained.
GET OUT OF MY SWAMP!
I didn't realize there was such a large market for pube trimming
WHAT ARE YA DOING IN MY SWAMP?!
Shrek swamp best swamp. Fairy creatures know where the party is at
Came for Derek, stayed for the ball shaving ad... wait, no.
@ChandSlam lol ditto
When I clicked on this video, I actually wondered if you were going to cover Dakar 2.
Since I was the racing guy as a kid, I hooked my friend up when he couldn't make it through the entire rally to unlock the GBA tracks. We would have time trials on the bus ride to school after loading the map to both of our systems... ah, the good old days
You were a racing guy with a GC? Nah, you had to have a PS2 if you were a racing guy. Right?
We each had one of the three consoles, you guessed right that I had the ps2, my buddy with the gamecube ended up getting Dakar 2 for Christmas from his grandpa and didn't have the heart to tell him he didn't like it. So, he invited me over and we made a weekend of completing the rally
that game was a lot of fun for me and a friend. We sometimes stopped properly doing the races and just tried to go anywhere and everywhere in certain maps. We didn't know what we were looking for, but we'd know when we found it. Mostly just screwing around.
One of the best GBA-GC connectivity features - maps in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory on the GBA screen
I am disappointed that the Wii and DS didn't have this level of interactivity.
But you could look into the NDS and GBA interactivity!
Like how certain types of Pokemon appear in areas of Diamond and Pearl depending on which Gen 3 game you had plugged into the bottom of the DS? I LOVED that stuff!
On the Nintendo Channel for the Wii you used to be able to download demos for your DS, and your Wii would send it wirelessly to the DS via download play.
@@ZekeGraal i wouldn't reallt consider a 4% encounter rate all that good (at least in gengars case although iirc this was the only way in the franchise to catch one in the wild) the palpark stuff was cool... In hgss cause of no daily transfer limit.
For a second my 2 brain cells thought nintendo desk cube
Kirby Canvas Curse would unlock different characters, depending on what game was in the GBA slot.
damn, that PSO to Sonic transfer is like Stop n Swap if it worked lol
It is legitimately the only reason I bought PSO as a kid, and man, that game stuck with me. Still the only MMO I ever really cared about, real excited for PSO2 finally reaching us.
+ChandSlam I don't usually start quests until late game on whatever difficulty I'm playing... As far as I remember you can start any time and doing quests are helpful in general in that game as it can lead to some interesting weapons. I don't remember if its actual story progress or just quest progress that unlocks more quests though. I do know that some quests take place in areas you won't have unlocked yet if you're still in the very early game.
@@ArtisChronicles Not to mention, PSO has quest lines within those quests. If you go one route, you can't take the other, unless you do that on a different difficulty.
"hey man where do you keep your games?"
"in that bag next to my pube trimmer"
For once, blowing in cartridges might actually be necessary
My sister and I actually had a similar cable that was compatible with single pak and we had a gba and gba sp.
Problem : We didn't know we had it.
We probably missed good things 🙁
That Rayman two-player mini game looks super creative. I want to try it!
I love how you changed your channel from being an AVGN homage channel to its own, unique thing. Damn good content. Keep it up.
Woah! I just noticed that the concept of GBA's "Animal Island" is very similar to the new Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Switch!
Yeppp
Your weird recording setup for this video reminds me of the horror stories of people attempting to record a Four Sword Adventures Let's Play... with 5 GameCubes, 4 Game Boy Players, and 5 TVs.
i'm always happy to hear someone talk about Billy Hatcher! i grew up playing that game's multiplayer mode for HOURS with my friends, and when i got older i played the story mode. the camera is pretty rough but i actually love the controls. not many games like that anymore. awesome video!
Normal Brain: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles in Single Player
Galaxy Brain: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players all using GBAs
Universe Brain: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles with four players all using GameBoy Players and their own separate TVs
Ahh, the legendary Giga-Quade. Some people used that set up to LP Four swords. It was pretty fun to watch.
Ascended: LARPing FF characters in the local park.
Cosmic transcendance brain: One person multiboxing one game of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles playing all four characters on four separate TVs
Me: stuffs 5 trimmed down gamecubes into one gamecube with 5 AV outs and 4 gameboy players stacked on top of eachother and controller ports on every side except the bottom
Honestly i dont know why they don't use the universe brain setup (but with longer cables) for pro play like a multiplayer speedrun but not speed
I always wanted to shave my butt, nice to know you're right behind me on that.
my hair never grew back after I shaved it in 2015, magical clippers I think not!!!!
Underrated joke
@@anoncanon1100 sounds good to me
One of my favorite memories is actually playing crystal chronicles and Zelda four swords with my two other friends! The GBA link was such a weird and funky idea, and I LOVED it! Great video!
I got a buddy of mine who hated RPGs to somehow play FFCC with me. It was awesome, I wish there was more to that game thou. I always loved the idea of RPG couch co-op
"I never played Animal Crossing on the gamecube, I wonder how much it is to get now?" five seconds later "WHAT!"
I'm guessing it was quite rare in the PAL regions.
In Europe it released quite late in the GameCube's lifecycle. IIRC they originally didn't think the sales would justify the cost of translating it to multiple European languages, by that time a lot of retailers had stopped stocking GameCube stuff so it wouldn't have been that widely available.
Buying late GameCube games was HARD, I remember having a really tough time trying to get hold of a copy of Resident Evil 4 at release. Kinda funny now considering that game's on more platforms than Skyrim.
In the Australian release from Oct. 2003, some of the e-Reader feats still exist and that certain designs, music and NES games may have been cut down more.
So my favorite moment with link cables was a moment when we had four link cables but only three Gameboys so we used a second GameCube with its game boy player as a Gameboy for the Link cable our TV had the ability to display a second input in the corner in a small screen so we played Crystal Chronicles and four swords with this
A few Interactive Multi-Game Demo Discs had a download for the Berry Glitch patch for Gen 3.
Nintendo went a step further. They hid the patch on FireRed and LeafGreen. You only needed the button combination to access it, which is B+Select and then follow the instructions.
the PAL version of the Pokémon Channel also does this.
One of the main reasons for Wario's Woods not being available was its size, obviously as you said, but not necessarily only that. Wario's Woods was the most intensive use of the MMC3 ASIC memory mapper, and I can safely bet that chip was what made WW so hard to work with. The game is already 256k, and beside that you need to accurately emulate an MMU for an emulator, in 2001, on a GBA.
This channel feels so much different from others. In a good way.
I KNOW I will learn something new, compared to other ‘information’ channels.
Great work, keep it up.
My experience with vmu batteries is that they will travel back in time to die during the Roosevelt administration. The first one.
The Tingle Tuner in wind waker actually means a lot to me. When me and my little brother were younger he struggled with playing the Wind Waker because he found it to hard to play. One day I received a copy of four swords on the gamecube that came bundled with the GBA Link Cable, from that day forward while I played Wind Waker my little brother would play with me using the Tingle Tuner and we would play together for hours on end like that, just wandering around and having a blast together. To this day this is still one of my favorite gaming memories and I would not trade it for anything.
Derek sounds especially excited in this one, and I love it. You can tell how passionate he is about this stuff!
Punching Weight videos are so rewatchable. Entertaining, informative, funny, snappy editing. I would watch an hourlong SSFF about the DK bongos. Or memory cards. ...and then again every couple of months later.
That crooked lipped smile & extreme side-mouth talking (ex: 0:23) is golden. It's like your trademark.
I remember Mad Catz made a GBA GameCube link cable that had a place for you to plug a GBA SP charger into. That's the one I used; it let me get as much play time as I wanted without needing to worry about my battery dying.
Can we get some Wii and Ds era stuff? Like Wii Speak, or Ds/Wii connectivity?
Man.. I love Billy Hatcher so damn much. Any mention of it in any video is such a blessing, and I’m glad it was showcased here. I’m still hoping for a sequel knowing it’ll never happen, but it’s such a great game and IP that deserves better treatment.
If you can get a hold of it, the japanese exclusive Nintendo Puzzle Collection was also bundled with a link cable!
I had my first experience with NES games on Animal Crossing through the GBA when I was 13.
The GameCube version of SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman was originally also going to have a link cable feature that would work both with and without the GBA game of the same name.
If you had the GBA game inserted when the link cable was connected to the GameCube, then you would have been able to play a 3D version of the special jellyfishing mini-game that ended up only making it to the handheld counterpart on your TV.
If you had the link cable fully connected, but didn't have a copy of the handheld game inserted in the GBA, then you could have used your Game Boy Advance as a radar for when you went treasure hunting.
Unfortunately, though, due to the very rough production cycle that the console version of ROTFD (which was also being developed for the Playstation 2) went through, the link cable feature was scrapped, though voice clips on how the functionality would have worked are still hiding in the GameCube version's disc files.
First time watching you, awesome video you kept it interesting and knowledgeable the whole way through. Thank you!
Hello Derek :) Good to see your new episodes of punching weight love that format :D Also a good video wuhu. So many greeting from Germany ;)
I have very fond memories of manning the Tingle Tuner while my big brother played Wind Waker. Awesome video, I always loved the link cable. I feel like not enough people talked about Four Swords Adventures, and I definitely got my use out of the GBA chao garden.
Also I am so fucked up right now. My original GBA SP's screen broke, but you could hear from the sound that the game still ran and all the inputs worked, but since it was "broken" my brother threw it across the street and into a concrete wall, causing it to REALLY break. If I had known I could use the GBA Player I could've still used it!!!!!!
Using the link cable with my GameBoy Player is actually how I used the Tingle Tuner in WindWaker while playing it on my Wii. I then connected the GameCube up to a portable DVD Player's video input (which was plugged in) since it was the easiest way I had to get 2 screens so I could actually see the GameCube output. I however do not have friends to play with so I would just use it as a nice mini map and to buy health when I started to get low in some areas.
I do remember the windwaker gba add-on. Played at my friends house and he let me have the gba. I naturally kept bombing him while he was sailing. He got mad, and I started using the timed bombs to be a little more inconspicuous. After a bit, he went in the town and you kept hearing bombs in the distance. Good times
Very cool! One of your best videos!
I’m actually surprised this channel doesn’t have more viewers and subscribers this content is fuckin gold!
All really cool things. I have pretty much all of these games but didn’t know like any of this stuff. I know what I’ll be trying when I get home from work!
Yeah! Awesome, you got some use out of Dakar 2. Crazy how much content people never knew about hidden away in all these games. Great vid as always
Love this stuff man, keep up the good work!
Amazing video, man! Great content
Damn, you cut me deep with that rayman 3 diss. Definitely one of my favorite games.
I know, right? That's like if someone told Derek they didn't like Resident Evil 4 after only trying it once.
Loved the video, I'm jealous that you had the chance to get a real tails chaos!
This man is the ONLY youtuber that seems so genuinely interested in what he’s talking about
I need to dig through my box of cables. I know I have one of those link cables.
Wow holy crap. I’m in your video lol for the GameCube online! Well that surprised me!
You can also play Pokémon Sapphire or Ruby by connecting GBA with Pokemon Sapphire/Ruby with GBA-Gamecube Cable with Gamecube with Pokémon Box game. So you can play Pokémon game on tv screen without GB Player. Easiest way to get Pokémon Box was atleast in europe with Pokémon Colosseum Bundle that had Pokémon Colosseum with Pokémon Box bundled in same game case.
I would love to see a PSO video one of these days. As well as the gamecube keyboard.
Well PSO2 is coming to the west next year... finally
Man I had really good times playing with my GameCube GBA Link cable with Pokemon back in the day. This is making me wanna play them again.
Bro ur flipping hilarious I’m over here watching all ur videos dying at work lmao
When me and my brother 1st got gamecube and few games we 1st got was Sonic Adventure 2, I wondered what that GBA feature was for. But at least now I know. Plus one of these days I need to get the original GBA even though I already own the GBA SP. Awesome video and love Punching Weights. Also someday for a future video, you should cover Action Replay Add on for Sega Saturn.
I was half moved into my moms house and stuck there with nothing to do. So I actually resorted to paying gba games on my GameCube with a gba as a controller since I had no game cube controllers with me. Ever since then I've been extremely thankful for that feature
Sort of related, but the WiiWare game "Maboshi's Arcade" had something kinda like this with the DS. Not only was it a crazy unique game in its own right, but you could download one of the three games at a time to your DS (3DS works too) to take with you on the go. You'll miss out on the interactivity the three games had onscreen, but it was still a pretty neat feature, nonetheless.
I remember using the link cable as my friend played windwaker...he was having fun and I sat there bored for days
That GBA Nights music is my everything. I highly recommend looking up Pokecapn - the guy who did THE Sonic '06 Let's Play - because one of the last RUclips LPs he did was of Four Swords Adventures. He and his buddies had the base game running on a Wii. They also had four GameCubes with Game Boy Players working as their GBAs. And they recorded ALL OF IT. I think they called it the HyperQuad.
I think it's also worth noting that the Tingle Tuner is an integral part of Wind Waker speedruns, as it's used for the zombie hover and some other crucial glitches
On another note, I never owned a GBA link cable growing up (and neither did any of my friends for some reason), but I did have a GameCube GBA Link Cable, so we would trade pokemon by transferring them through Pokemon Colosseum; I remember that a single trade could take like 20 minutes since there were 3 or so transfers that had to be done lol
You can use Tiny Chao garden without a cartridge. This results in instead of sending your Chao to the garden normally, it creates a clone. With this, you can copy your CHao to other save files.
Another SSFF video when I really need it? Hell yeah!
I have a FPS master controller that is everything this channel is about! Wish there were enough out there to be popular
Great video as always, though I had to pause it and go find that GBA NiGHTS music on its own and just bask in the chill for a bit. I did come back and finish the video after tho. :)
I mean it makes sense that a game wouldn’t let you play a demo of itself as most people would think “why would you need the demo for a game you already own?”
I was digging through my pile of old cables and other video game stuff for an eternety, looking for an old GBA-GBA link cable to complete the Pokedex, couldn't find it.
What I did find very early in my search was the GBA-GCN cable. Only after giving up on my search did I even think about trying to use that cable, since it has two GBA ports.
Of course it works.
I spent so much time, was browsing ebay for a cable for an eternety, even bought one from a loval game store, only for that cable to be broken, gave up, and THEN did I realize how amazing the GCN cable is.
I freaking loved the GBA Connectivity on the GameCube, my mom got me Sonic Advance because of this, after me playing weeks of the Tiny Chao Garden in SA2B without saving function.
Also Wind Waker got even better with that thing connected to it, and not just those games but also Wario Ware Mega Games and The Sims Busting Out!
Oh and don't forget the GBA works as complete functional controller for the GameBoy Player as well.
Those were the days... yes... truely one of the many aspects that made me enjoy the GC and GBA so much.
The rayman 3 driving minigame looked amazing and completely original. Never really seen a mode like that anywhere else.
Ah man.. I missed punching weight ..good episode .. looks like i need to go Gamecube game shopping
Punching Weight is by far my favorite series!
Yo, I loved this thing! I used it all the time! The island was one of my favorite parts of Animal Crossing. I always used the Tingle Tuner when I wanted to play Wind Waker and I had a friend over. And the tiny chao garden (not even including the Sonic Advanced benefits) let you clone your chao and bring them from SA1 to SA2! Such an awesome peripheral.
pso is probably one of my favorite experiences ever. Playing it with friends on a fan server was fun as hell.
This is great, man. I always wondered what you can do with a gba and a gamecube
You can use the GBA player disc and link cables to run this bonus content from one system to another. This is amazing for the best link cable use, PAC Man VS, where the pac player can get a full TV screen!
I still have this game. So much fun…!
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SSFF: When was the last time you thought about this game?
Me, a Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing player: [laughs]
18:13 there are at least 37 of these
35 kiosk demo disc
The Preview Disc you discussed
A demo disc with some third party games
P.S even though I don't get why and how it is supposed to work volumes 14-16 were compatible with the link cable with Pokemon ruby and sapphire so you can get a shiny zigzagoon and patch the berry glitch I say I don't know how it works cause it was a kiosk demo disc
There's a video on youtube of four guys playing Four Swords Adventures with five TVs, five Gamecubes, and four link cables. Each GC has a GBA Player attached. If you search "legend of zelda four swords five tvs" it should be the first result. Really cool that those guys were able to put that together. It's worth seeing.
I love the link cable goodies. The Mega Man X rpg and Skies of Arxadia had fun ways to gjve you a slight edge in the main game with minigames.
When I would hang out with my best friend in middle school, we'd play four swords and other gba connected games using 1 gamecube connected to the "big" ~24inch crt with a regular gba and my gamecube/gba player setup with the little flip top attachable screen. Legitimately played Crystal Chronicles, 4 swords, Wind Waker Tingle Tuner, and even E-Reader games like this. We played hundreds of hours of Melee on that small fliptop attachable display, always on Hyrule Temple of course.
Man, I know it's an possibly expensive proposition, but I'd love to see a Punching Weight on the PC Engine Arcade Card. Feels like the exact type of stuff you guys are into on this show.
Honestly I would love to see someone like you do a video about Legend of the Dragoon for PS1. It's one of the most underrated games most people have never heard of
There was a game called Amazing Island, you created monsters by drawing on skeletons that would compete in various minigames. The minigames themselves were just okay, but the real draw was the ability to create your own monsters. The game had GBA link support, and you could transfer your monsters into a Pokemon-style card game. You could even transfer the monsters to two GBAs and battle each other through a link cable!
I did not own a GBA Link cable til 2018, I was really late to that party.
But, it was totally worth transferring all of my GBA Pokemon from Sapphire to Gale of Darkness.
12 Year old me still wishes he used that cable much earlier.
You never fail to make fantastic videos big dog, keep it up.
I LOVE your smile, man!
I love how insane all of these old add-ons are. I want to see a keyboard to put inbetween the joycons officially released in the west
I have a first style gba that I specifically use as a gba "controller" with my gba player. It's the best! 👍 good video!
I had a gba and cable , as well as windwaker.
It was fun and I used it to do some grotto that had vines in it and one with a fire arrow puzzle.
Would have been really fun with a friend , but that never happened.
I have a Gameboy Advance with a TV out mod. I used to plug it My Commodore 1701 composite monitor, and used to have that set up directly beneath my old CRT HD (pre-HDMI HD). I used to play Windwaker on the HD TV (480p of course), and have the GBA displayed on the bottom Commodore monitor. It was great!
so glad you mentioned the tingle tuner
I'm not sure if it was mentioned in another video but Mega Man X Command Mission also has GBA link cable support. It'll help locate hidden items called Treasure Tokens, which can be used to get figurines of the various characters.
billy hatcher was a great game. i bought it just for the cards you get from the save file in pso ep3 card revolution and ended up enjoying it quite a bit.
Excellent video as usual.
Man I spent a lot of time in the chao garden. A really deep complex side game that most people overlooked