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Tune Your Car with a Gameboy Advance

Posted by Zonk on from the first-you-have-to-know-how-to-tune-your-car dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A company named Turboxs has created an interface for the Gameboy Advance that plugs into your car. It appears to allow for tuning as well as data logging. The Turboxs Dtec lets you use your Gameboy as a Boost Gauge, Exhaust Gas Temperature Gauge, Air Temperature Gauge and Tachometer. Future plug-n-play sensors will allow everything from Knock Indication to Vehicle Acceleration. Previously this was only available via a laptop or pda, but bringing this to the gameboy may open up performance tuning to the masses without the expensive peripheral hardware."

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  1. Oh, Come on! by Rev+Wally · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a Geo Metro, my car's already a toy!

    --
    LOAD "SIG",8,1
    1. Re:Oh, Come on! by Rethcir · · Score: 2, Funny
      "Faster, Neddy, he's gaining on us!!!" -Maude Flanders

      "I can't! It's a GEO!!!" -Ned Flanders

  2. Oh Great by TheOnlyJuztyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now what if those little kids sitting in the back with their gameboys aren't as innocent as they seem...? Coming to a stop at a red ligh--TURBO INJECTOR TO FULL!!!

  3. The only thing it could do... by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Funny

    The only thing it could do, with a name like Gameboy Advance, is tune the ignition advance...

  4. Racing your own car by _iris · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's now almost obligatory for someone to make a racing game for the GBA in which you drive your own car and/or race a in-game car against someone driving your real life car.

    1. Re:Racing your own car by 00null00 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hey, I've played that game! The graphics are AWESOME but the cars don't respawn.