{"id":376,"date":"2008-06-08T21:04:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T02:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/376"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T23:58:52","slug":"pokemon-cable-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/376","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon: Cable Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m posting this several days late: again I’ve spent a week out of town, and that means Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>. I actually didn’t do much with the game this time, but I did make another trade attempt.<\/p>\n

The last time I tried to trade pok\u00e9mon between two GBAs, I had problems. To trade, you go (in the game) to the Cable Club, an area found in every Pok\u00e9mon Center. If you’re connected to another gameboy via gamelink cable, the Cable Club receptionist tells you to wait for the other party to join; if you’re not, she sends you away. So it’s easy to tell who the system thinks is and is not connected. The Cable Club was consistently accepting one side and rejecting the other. Furthermore, when I unplugged the cable and plugged it back in the other way around, it switched which one it accepted and which one it rejected. I concluded that there was something wrong with the cable.<\/p>\n

Well, now I’ve tried it with a different cable, and I’m usually seeing the same symptoms. Tantalizingly, the bad end occasionally manages to recognize the connection, but never for long enough to actually execute a trade, as if there’s a loose connection. Or maybe it’s just the wrong sort of cable for this game: some docs I’ve found online<\/a> suggest that I have to hack around the middle socket (which wasn’t even present on the first cable, but whatever). I’m not completely sure if that’s what I actually need here, though. Like all other gameboy hardware documentation I’ve found online, it assumes more knowledge than I have. But what the heck, I’ll dig out the multimeter and soldering iron and give it a try. The worst that can happen is that I’ll lose a cable that was useless to me anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m posting this several days late: again I’ve spent a week out of town, and that means Pok\u00e9mon. I actually didn’t do much with the game this time, but I did make another trade attempt. The last time I tried to trade pok\u00e9mon between two GBAs, I had problems. To trade, you go (in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[47,142],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-rpg","tag-hardware-2","tag-pokemon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}