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GCNET Is A GameCube Network Adapter That Fits In Your Console's Memory Card Slot | Time Extension
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I... Dont know why this exists.
Ive been aware of a few ethernet projects for gamecube and none of them makes sense to me.
All of them use a custom chip/interface and require special code in software.
On top of that, none of them have merged the code into libogc (the open source gamecube homebrew library i help maintain ).
If i were to make a project like this, i'd use a mcu ( pi zero? ) together with a ethernet controller. The mcu would expose the same interface the official bba would, so even games could use it out of the box.
I even made a pcb design for extrems so he had the pcb pinouts just like the official bba to work sonething out of.
But hey, what do i know, right?
Exactly. Thats why i made the pcb design for the connector, everything is measured out and the pinout is written out too.
It also is connected to the exi bus, which is shared with the memory cards...
Makes no sense tbh
Oh, those would have to be on the same bus, wouldn't they? That's why that one memory card slot SD card adapter works, I was curious about that. I got both but I do prefer the serial port one where you can snap the cover back on.
Yes, the serial port, bba and memory card all share the exi bus, so from a software standpoint they can all be communicated with via the same bus interface ( but hardware commands/communication is hardware specific ofc ) For more info :
https://hitmen.c02.at/files/yagcd/yagcd/chap10.html and https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Hardware/External_Interface
Ooh, thank you.