This is excellent news, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was an excellent four player game and my friends and I were deeply disappointed with the shortcomings of the recent remaster released for various platforms.
I think literally anything would be better than reading this news. I’m glad this non-problem has been solved so that people can emulate GBA games, just incredible. (I understand that this adds features that were missing and to that end I would say as an -avid- gamer I couldn’t care any less about those features than I do now, which is already very little.)
> But before we could connect to another emulator, we needed to understand how the connection actually works. GameCube games will actually encrypt the GBA binary that is sent to the various games, and the way it does this actually posed a bit of a problem for Dolphin early on. The encryption process took place on the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) under a special microcode that we refer to as the GBA microcode. Now this may sound weird, as most people consider the GameCube/Wii's Digital Signal Processor (DSP) specifically for audio emulation, but sometimes it could be used for other tasks. In this case, it is used to encode the executable sent to the GBA as a weak form of obfuscation.
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It means the difficultly in playing Four Swords Adventure authentically has been greatly reduced. Now it only requires a laptop per player. Great news
woah!