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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Without GBAs?

Posted by simoniker on from the ummyeah dept.

arxmage writes "A group of my students went to extremes to play the GameCube ARPG Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles in multiplayer mode with wireless controllers, and without using a Game Boy Advance [as a Gamers Europe review explains, the multiplayer mode 'requires each player to have a Game Boy Advance and a GameCube link cable'.] You basically get a GameCube with FF:CC in it, then get 4 more GCs with attached GameBoy Players. Link each of these 4 GCs (using GBA link cables) to the main GC, and plug each of these 4 GCs into its own small tv. The small TVs act as each player's 'GBA screen' and the main TV is where everyone plays. Finally, plug a WaveBird into each of these 4 GameCubes and you're good to go." The resulting cable mess is a joy to behold.

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  1. Re:Thats awesome by FortissimoWily · · Score: 3, Informative

    I didn't realize that you could trick Crystal Chronicles into thinking the GB Player was a GBA.
    There's no trickery involved - the GB Player *IS* a GBA. It's just in a casing that attatches to a GC. ;P

  2. Re:Defeating The Purpose by MBCook · · Score: 2, Informative
    An interesting idea, but I don't think it works that way in FF:CC. I think all that it shows in FF:CC is the player's map (at least that's what the screenshots seem to indicate). If you know much about the game, you know all the players must be in the same place because there is poisin gas around that eats at your health unless you are near a special bucket that someone in the party has to carry around. Because of all this, the maps are all the same, for all intents and purposes.

    Now you could do some cool things in sports games like let you choose your plays in a football game without everyone else seeing. The GBA GC connection is the Dreamcast's VMU in many ways. Only the screen on the GBA is VASTLY better than the VMU, but what do you expect since they were designed for different purposes origionally.

    I'm not sure how you would use it to encourage co-operation above what would be needed in the first place to play a four player game.

    PS: Doesn't that first paragraph sound almost like a troll trying to make up some rediculous explanation of the game that's obviously wrong? But it's close to that. Odd. :)

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  3. Re:Defeating The Purpose by silentbobdp · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. Each map shows different things. One shows treasure, one shows enemies, and I forget what the other two are (it has been a good month since the last time I got with anyone to play this game).

    And yes, I am aware of the gas. The maps aren't used to keep the players together. They're used to foster different goals.

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  4. Re:old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It boggles my mind that this is news to someone. Not because it isn't cool, but because I've been doing this kind of stuff all along. I'm used to coming to this page and finding out that someone copied a Gamecube game, or put Unix on the little bugger. This right here is some shit everyone should have taken for granted already.

    "Hey, Slashdot! This just in! The Game Boy Player does the exact same things a GBA does, just like it's supposed to!"

    Did everyone know that a Game Boy Advance can be used as the controller for a Game Boy Player? I once used a Wavebird to control a Game Boy Player-enabled Gamecube, which was controlling another Game Boy Player-enabled Gamecube, which was controlling another Game Boy Player-enabled Gamecube, which was playing Mariokart Super Circuit, and the control was flawless. Daisy-chain thirty systems in this manner, and tell us what sort of control lag occurs. That'll be news.

    Or here's some trivia: A PS2 A/V cable will work with a Gamecube, but it produces a black & white picture. Shove that down your technical feat hole.

  5. Re:Old News by Weirdofreak · · Score: 2, Informative

    Somebody on the GameFAQs boards had the very same idea. Since then, he's been telling everybody who asks about whether or not you can play with 'Cube controllers about this. There are quite a few of those people, unfortunately.

    The Two GBAs/Two controllers glitch was also posted there, and almost immediately discredited when nobody except the poster could get it to work.