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The Nintendo GameCube Broadband Adapter (commonly known as the GameCube BBA) is a broadband modem for the Nintendo GameCube. It was produced by Conexant and made in the Philippines.
Online and LAN play The adapter is currently used for play over the internet in only four titles, three of which were developed by Sega: Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II, Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II Plus, and Phantasy Star Online Episode III C.A.R.D. Revolution. The fourth is Homeland, (developed by ChunSoft). The Broadband adapter also allows LAN play with games such as Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Kirby Air Ride, 1080° Avalanche, and Crash Tag Team Racing •. Warp Pipe and XLink Kai have created tunneling software that allows these games to be played over the Internet. Shortages A few months after the release of the adapter, shortages occurred, causing the product to become somewhat rare and resulting in high prices on eBay. Nintendo continues to make the adapter available through their online store, but its almost impossible to buy it at a local retailer since retailers won't order more from Nintendo. As of August 2006, there are adapters available on eBay at the MSRP Possibilities for Running Unsigned Code Soon after PSO I&II was released for GameCube, it was discovered that a PC could be made to simulate the conditions of the server that the game would connect to when connecting to the internet. This information started off as a method of tunneling the online service. It was then discovered that when simulating this server, unsigned code could be streamed back to the GameCube, or information could be streamed back, creating the possibility for piracy. However this was also implemented to allow online gameplay with games that were not even dreamed of being online by developers.* Early dumps of GameCube games were created using this technique. From there methods of running the games off of a computer through a GameCube were created. Nintendo and Sega responded by releasing the 'plus' version of the game. | ||||||||
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