Communicating through a GBA's link port

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Originally Posted by Spencer E.

If I can get a serial connection from the GBA to the RC could I not do potentially the exact same thing as hooking a laptop up to the RC? The GBA's link port acts almost exactly like a serial port, just arranged differently. I'd rather have to carry a GBA in my pocket out to the field rather than a laptop . Plus, how could would people think it would be if you programmed your autonomous through a Game Boy .

Oh and Astronouth, looking at the IFI programming port pinout it seems as though they do use CTS and RTS in their communication. Do these two pins have to go CTS-CTS and RTS-RTS or does it have to be CTS-RTS and RTS-CTS just like it has to be Tx-Rx and Rx-Tx?

I am NOT familiar with GBA programming, but I would think it is possible, if the serial port of a GBA is what you say.

You would not be able to compile code on the GBA, but if you wrote some type of script that would be saved in EEPROM on the RC then it is possible you could use the GBA as a terminal to modify the script.

If you wanted to do something like that I would recommend creating the script and the PC editor, and then porting an editor to GBA.