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Xport 2 Turns Game Boy Advance Into Embedded Microcontroller

Posted by simoniker on from the jargon-to-the-flargon dept.

Thanks to Gizmodo for its article discussing the Xport 2.0 unofficial cartridge add-on for the Game Boy Advance, which allows users to turn their GBA "into a user-programmable embedded microcontroller for directing robots, capturing images or video, or operating anything else you can interface to its user-programmable I/O." There's more information on the official Charmed Labs site.

18 comments

  1. It's just a matter of time... by pat_trick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Until someone ports linux to it. :)

  2. Great! by JFMulder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now I can turn my Gameboy Advance into a GameCube controller!!!

    Oh, wait...

  3. Games? by b00m3rang · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't this make more sense under the Developers section? Aside from the hardware, which is essentially a display, processor, and I/O, this has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of gaming.

    1. Re:Games? by kai5263499 · · Score: 1

      "nothing to do with any kind of gaming."

      What? How can you be so blind to the mobile gaming arena? In which case the GBA is king (hey, even nokia tried to upset them with their bastard phone flop last year).

      For those of us who don't tend to stay in one place for very long, mobile gaming is the only thing we've got.

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      -Wes
  4. That's nice by Mr.Dippy · · Score: 0

    It would have been more impressive if they made this out of old N-Gage parts and ear wax.

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    -Dipster
    1. Re:That's nice by empaler · · Score: 1

      Gay, in the meaning of merry or happy can be very polite.

    2. Re:That's nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is a troll, of course, but how exactly does misspelling a word like gay (used pejoratively) make it more polite? You're still calling the person a homosexual, and in fact you're not even changing the pronunciation, so why does adding an h to the word somehow magically make calling someone gay acceptable? No, really, I want to know.

  5. I don't mean the GBA, I mean the microcontroller by b00m3rang · · Score: 1

    It's about as relevant as posting, "Honeywell has released a new embedded system to monitor A/C cooling tower status" in the Games area.

  6. I've just had a vision: by empaler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hook it up to a radiocontroller for a model car, load a driving game onto it, battle your friends.

    Yes. That would be fun.

  7. Flamebait? by empaler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would've expected Troll, but not Flamebait.
    Ah, what the hell do they know.

  8. A free game-boy programming book by pat_trick · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's a free GBA Programming Book available in .pdf format online at http://www.jharbour.com/ that's worth taking a look at if you're intersted in GBA Programming in general. I'm tempted to try out this kit to see how it fares...$150 is a bit steep of a price for me right now though.

  9. I Figured It Out by spudwiser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Using your Game Boy to control a lego mindstorms kit. This is the peak of civilization, from a toy point of view.

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    .cig - what you do after winning a good flame war
  10. PDA by j.bellone · · Score: 1

    So why can't I use it as a cheap PDA? Throw in a nice small little hard-drive in there, and I have a portable device that can pass through customs... err... I mean that can hold all those episodes of Mr Rogers.

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    I'm f#$king magic!
  11. Re:I don't mean the GBA, I mean the microcontrolle by DaFlusha · · Score: 1

    Well, I love programming embedded systems stuff related to games. I don't follow the Development section, because I don't care about 99% of stuff posted there. But I follow games stuff; if they post things about game engines here, then anything game-dev-related belongs here, too.