For Josh: Play VBA multiplayer over a Lan.

[Stark]

This is making me so pissed. I have been trying to post this for like 2 days and it won't post. AHHHH!!!!!!!

Play VBA multiplayer over a Lan.

That's right guys. I haven't tested it myself but ppl have shown me this.

http://vbalink.wz.cz/

[polobunny]

Hahaha, and I remmeber hearing people telling me I was stupid and that we would NEVER see GBA over LAN because it was like supposed to have a link transfer at 2Gb/s or whatever.
Suckers, i'm gonna test that.
Thanks Josh.

[Josh]

I want to know if anyone has tested this. I haven't been able to get on another computer on my LAN to be able to test it.

[Ryu]

I have 3 comps together for lan games, I'll test it out.

[polobunny]

I'll test it at school with a few friends. I don't have 4 computers running fine atm.

[Ryu]

Worked for me with jackie chan rom

[polobunny]

Worked for me with Zelda 4S. Ah, lot of fun. I had to fiddle with the settings a bit to find the best timeout number (i think that's the name) because it was always giving me some connection problem message. Buy after trying various numbers, i managed to make it work and play. It works fine, but you'll need a cpu better than 600mhz to play it good. I noticed the LAN version was a memory hog compared to the single player version.

[Ryu]

That would depend on what OS you have, but yes I would say 1Ghz is fine.
Also I found that when using this great emulator for lan gaming, you have to make sure that the hosts IP is ping is high, otherwise it's laggy as hell.

[polobunny]

Make sure the ping is high?
Wouldn't it be laggier with a high ping?

[Ryu]

lmao@Ryu typo
Man when I was posting that I was arguing with my GF.
Anyway yes lmao, a high ping would mean that it would be laggy, low ping means fast.

/me shoots himself in the head.

[Josh]

Well I don't think you have to worry about a very high ping on a LAN. I mean its not like I'm sending data across the continental US or the Atlantic Ocean. It's just to the room right next to me.

[polobunny]

It depends on the server load.
It also depends on the network hardware. (Hub/Switch)
I know we got a damn old switch in my class, it makes our ping shitty when we ping the class next to us....

[Ryu]

LOL, I remember them!
The greath days of 98 networking
Anyway, this Emu works over net/lan, so no need for me to reply to this anymore