Nintendo's mystery product revealed!!

[Dark Jaguar]

Here's the question. Will this next system be set up so that the wireless connection works with all old games? One little tricky item to deal with is that the way the data is handled by the GBA's current cables is different than the way the wireless connection is designed. I mean, the data is sent along a cable just back and forth in two player. Add a 3rd though, and that data has to piggyback along with the 2nd player's data to get to player 1. This wireless connection likely depends on a "host" system just synchronising the data. Not sure if I'm being clear here, but as I see it they'd have to kinda do some artificial data passing, by sending the data from 4th player to 3rd, then to 2nd, then along to 1st. I can imagine there'd be some lag involved in that unless it was really optimized. I'm also not sure if that's ACTUALLY needed. It all depends on if the GBA games multiplay was specially designed around this, and it most assuredly was I think, and thus if it didn't work like that, the games wouldn't work...

This is probably why Triton Labs has taken so long making their little wireless adapter, and why the adapter for Pokémon only works with that and later games that support it. Ya see, when I actually take the time to think about why they did these things, I can actually figure something reasonable out :D. Still, I would really like it if Nintendo solved this problem in time for the next system. That would mean it's already solved for when whatever Nintendo considers to be the REAL portable successor is made.