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Family Computer => Famicom / Disk System => Topic started by: ulera on October 17, 2012, 12:02:55 am

Title: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: ulera on October 17, 2012, 12:02:55 am
After learning about the existence of the Pokemon Yellow homebrew I had a thought... would it be possible to make a "link cable" that plugged into two famicoms extension ports that would serve the same function as a gameboy link cable? Obvious Chinese Yellow doesn't support it, but hypothetically if someone were to make another pokemon Famicom game from scratch would that be possible to do?

(Alternatively I guess if someone made a homebrew game for the famicom disk system trading could work by selection a pokemon from a menu to be traded and loading that data into the ram, inserting another copy of the game, selecting a pokemon that would replace the RAM data and then putting the original game back in)
Title: Re: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: 80sFREAK on October 17, 2012, 12:59:21 am
Anything is possible. The matter is motivation and time.
Title: Re: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: ulera on October 17, 2012, 01:07:43 am
But the famicom extension port is capable of transmitting game data?
Title: Re: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: 80sFREAK on October 17, 2012, 01:35:47 am
Do you have Family Basic keyboard?
Title: Re: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: ulera on October 17, 2012, 06:18:37 am
No, but I see your point.
Title: Re: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: Russam5354 on March 02, 2014, 12:19:54 pm
I found this thread while post-digging. I'm interested in this kind of stuff. Maybe someday someone on the forums could start a FC Pokémon and Data Link Cable project. Unfortunately, I can't ATM.
Title: Re: Hypothetical Pokemon homebrew feature
Post by: L___E___T on March 02, 2014, 12:20:53 pm
This is a mammoth task, I wouldn't hold you r breath squire.