GameCube to PC Comms Link?

[HomelandReloaded]

Does anyone know if the GameCube has ever been connected to a PC via the second serial port or the parallel port in the way it has been done for the Dreamcast and older consoles?

[AC_Orange]

I guess since broadband connection to the PC was possible early on, no one bothered with a slower interface. It would be interesting to see if anyone attempted it

[_Nold_]

You can also use the Viper GC Extreme USB as an interface to the cube!

[HomelandReloaded]

Thanks for your responses. I was thinking of maybe getting access to the GameCube memory while it is running a game, for example, or possibly even controlling the console somehow from an external system.

[infact]

Use an USBGecko.

[Dragoon]

Or if you have a BBA you can try gcnrd, wouldn't advice you buying a BBA for that, since I never got gcnrd working on my cube.
And if you where to use a usb gecko, you can use wiird.
@_Nold_ did you by any change get gcnrd to work? If you did/do can you please share it with me?

[analrapist]

BTW, did anybody try to build a coder cable just with an FTDI ?
EXI bus is king of SPI-like, so It should work with an FTDI (maximum speed on SPI @26Mhz :/).

[emu_kidid]

Its called a USB gecko

[analrapist]

USBGecko is an FPGA which uses the same protocol as FTDI (and it cost 30$ :]).
I'm just wondering if anybody tried to build his own coder cable.

[liquitt]

you have the worst nickname ever.