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How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023

www.ign.com How Four Friends Built a ‘Hypercube’ to Play Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Together in 2023 - IGN

For one group of four friends, their love of Crystal Chronicles’ was inseparable from their experience playing together as teenagers. So when the 2020 remaster failed to recapture their youthful experience in full, they started a project that would let them play the original game in all its glory, t...

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www.ign.com /articles/how-four-friends-built-a-hypercube-to-play-final-fantasy-crystal-chronicles-together-in-2023

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It's a shame that the remake of this game removed some of the best aspects of it.
- Its more than a shame, it ruined the replay value completely AND I can't play it with my kids to get them into it without buying a switch for each.
  
  Yeah I tried to play it with my girlfriend on the same switch, swearing it was multi-player but, no.

... wait, the Gamecubes are just used for GBA I/O? Sheesh.

Wow that’s quite the achievement. I wonder if the emulation community has an easier way of running this without all the adapters.
- Visual Boy Advance supports netplay IIRC
- Dolphin now includes mGBA as a sort of controller. The wiki has a note about network settings but is otherwise full-steam-ahead.

This is cool. I wanted to do a much simpler setup to capture video from my switch to stream. So I could stream from Moonlight or my Steam Deck.
But haven’t really dug into how to map steam input while playing remotely into a device that can send the signals to the switch.
Great work on their part.

Incredible effort. As the great scholar Cave Johnson said, "science isn't about why, it's about why not?"

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