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How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

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2y ago

How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

www.ign.com /articles/how-four-friends-built-a-hypercube-to-play-final-fantasy-crystal-chronicles-together-in-2023

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It's a shame that the remake of this game removed some of the best aspects of it.
- Its more than a shame, it ruined the replay value completely AND I can't play it with my kids to get them into it without buying a switch for each.
  
  Yeah I tried to play it with my girlfriend on the same switch, swearing it was multi-player but, no.
... wait, the Gamecubes are just used for GBA I/O? Sheesh.
- I remain flabbergasted there's no simpler way to get ten buttons of input and 240p of output on a generic 32-bit ARM device with a zillion official and unofficial add-ons. Especially when you look at the unholy chain of adapters necessary for input.
  Especially once you swap the console playing the game for an early-model Wii, which has been hacked to hell and back, and has Gamecube, Bluetooth, and technically USB inputs.
Wow that’s quite the achievement. I wonder if the emulation community has an easier way of running this without all the adapters.
- Dolphin now includes mGBA as a sort of controller. The wiki has a note about network settings but is otherwise full-steam-ahead.
- Visual Boy Advance supports netplay IIRC
Incredible effort. As the great scholar Cave Johnson said, "science isn't about why, it's about why not?"
This is cool. I wanted to do a much simpler setup to capture video from my switch to stream. So I could stream from Moonlight or my Steam Deck.
But haven’t really dug into how to map steam input while playing remotely into a device that can send the signals to the switch.
Great work on their part.

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