3rd July 2006, 8:25 PM
I wasn't really asking for an online connection (I already have tunneling software, and while it isn't perfect, and almost no one is playing this particular game at any one time, it'll suffice when I want to play online with friends.
The various Gamecube games do seem to care how they communicate though. Mario Kart doesn't support the modem, and if you go PSO you use the in-game system to set up your online connection, depending on what hardware you have in the system.
However, the right "trickery" and you can basically fool a Gamecube game on the Wii into thinking the broadband adapter is in fact plugged into the system and that it is connected to a local area network. I'm hoping Nintendo took the time to implement this little trickery. It should be pretty simple, only taking into account the max transfer speed being lowered (which shouldn't be an issue, since 54MB is still a lot of transfer speed and the game runs fine even on hubs and routers that only have 10MB transfer speeds, it's normal online traffic that's the issue).
The various Gamecube games do seem to care how they communicate though. Mario Kart doesn't support the modem, and if you go PSO you use the in-game system to set up your online connection, depending on what hardware you have in the system.
However, the right "trickery" and you can basically fool a Gamecube game on the Wii into thinking the broadband adapter is in fact plugged into the system and that it is connected to a local area network. I'm hoping Nintendo took the time to implement this little trickery. It should be pretty simple, only taking into account the max transfer speed being lowered (which shouldn't be an issue, since 54MB is still a lot of transfer speed and the game runs fine even on hubs and routers that only have 10MB transfer speeds, it's normal online traffic that's the issue).
"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)