3rd July 2006, 7:48 PM
Leave it to me to wonder stuff like this. GBA comes out, I ask "does it support SGB color pallettes?" and "yeah I know it doesn't have the infrared port, but could it basically use a converting protocol to use the link cable for that same feature?". PS3 comes out, I wonder if it'll support multitap gaming on PS1 and 2 games. XBox 360 is out, I wonder about Steel Battallion's ridiculously oversized controller. That thing's expensive, too much for my blood, but if they intend on making it FULLY backwards compatible, it is something they need to consider eventually.
So here's my question for the Wii. Seems that the console is going to support everything that the Gamecube did, except the Gameboy Player. I can accept that well enough (very few additional features were ever added to GBA games for that, in fact I believe Rumble is the only thing I can think of). However, my question is support for the OTHER thing, the broadband/modem adapter. No, it won't have those, but it has wifi. Will it be possible, after using the Wii's main menu to connect to the nearest wifi connection (in this case, it'll need to be one connected to a local network with either other Wiis, other Gamecubes, or a PC with tunneling software, for example my own router) for the system to basically allow Gamecube games that support the broadband adapter to "see" the wifi connection as though it is the broadband connection and thus still be able to network Mario Kart Double Dash together with other systems for "mad crazy banana shell action"?
So here's my question for the Wii. Seems that the console is going to support everything that the Gamecube did, except the Gameboy Player. I can accept that well enough (very few additional features were ever added to GBA games for that, in fact I believe Rumble is the only thing I can think of). However, my question is support for the OTHER thing, the broadband/modem adapter. No, it won't have those, but it has wifi. Will it be possible, after using the Wii's main menu to connect to the nearest wifi connection (in this case, it'll need to be one connected to a local network with either other Wiis, other Gamecubes, or a PC with tunneling software, for example my own router) for the system to basically allow Gamecube games that support the broadband adapter to "see" the wifi connection as though it is the broadband connection and thus still be able to network Mario Kart Double Dash together with other systems for "mad crazy banana shell action"?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)