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Something very simple and handy that I thought people that desperately search for those gameboy micro adapters could use.

WHY?
Link a micro to a MIDI-sync device or sync to gameboy color (GBC) and advance, using one cable.

HOW?
I found all the necessary information here.
If I can 'borrow' the images from the link above, here are the pins. On top are the cables and below the link ports.

The cables I used were these

Cut one of the four cables from the micro and half of the GBC and grab your multimeter.
Locate the cables that correspond to the pins. For the ones I used it was:

micro        number        GBC
white        1        green
yellow        2        yellow
black        3        blue
brown        4        orange
blue        5        red
red        6        white

Connect the cables properly, cover with heat-shrink tubes and you're done.

Connect one end to the GBC cable of your midi-sync device of preference, the other to your micro and you are in sync.

ENJOY!

and thanks to http://www.mksmks.de/technical/gbmtocube.htm

TEST RESULTS

DOES:
1. Using this cable and LSDJMC2 or Gijs' MCG, I had in perfect sync: a nanoloop 2.3 in the micro, an ES-1 and a KP2, at least for the ~20 minutes I measured each. Varying the bpm did not lead to bad sync.
2. it can send master clock from nanoloop 2.3 in a micro to nanoloop 1.5 in a GBA SP, but not the reverse

DOESN'T:
1. nl 2.2 in micro struggles with keeping the bpm from the midi-sync devises, so, not recommended
2. nl 2.3 in micro doesn't work with nl 1.x and nanovoice in DMGs through a direct link, using DMG-14
3. nl 2.3 in micro doesn't receive clock from nl 1.x and nanovoice in GBA SPs
4. nl 2.3 in micro doesn't send clock to nl 1.x (except 1.5) in GBA SP

NOT TESTED (let me know if you try any or if you already know):
1. sync with GBA, GBC and pocket
2. sync to LSDJ (soon)
3. ??

edit: fixed broken image sources

Last edited by the mist toggles (Aug 18, 2011 12:25 pm)

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Rice Lake, WI

Good info here, my micro is happy now smile

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IL, US

thats that 4 ended micro cable i was telling you about, dise
still need enough micros around at one time to see if the 5-way gb micro sync via 2 cables works

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lolusa

that 4 ended cable made me all

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IL, US

me too, thats why i bought it the moment i saw it..still need to more gb micros though

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NorthTtrrrway

the four-ended cable has a switch. Does anyone know what it is for? (trying to avoid opening it up tongue)

Last edited by the mist toggles (May 7, 2010 4:30 am)

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IL, US

havent discovered the purpose of that switch yet myeself

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ovenrake wrote:

that 4 ended cable made me all

lol @ iJustine

thanx TMT!

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the mist toggles wrote:

the four-ended cable has a switch. Does anyone know what it is for? (trying to avoid opening it up tongue)

switches it between gba mode and 8bit mode I'd guess. I used to have a 4 way link cable with gbc style plugs and it had a switch that would allow it to be used with gba's running gba games.

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TmTgr wrote:
the mist toggles wrote:

the four-ended cable has a switch. Does anyone know what it is for? (trying to avoid opening it up tongue)

switches it between gba mode and 8bit mode I'd guess. I used to have a 4 way link cable with gbc style plugs and it had a switch that would allow it to be used with gba's running gba games.

except its a GB micro cable, GB micros ONLY play gba games, beyond the fact that you can sync a gba to a DMG using official nintendo cables which would seem to imply that there is little to no difference in the way the units send/receive link

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e.s.c. wrote:

GB micros ONLY play gba games

Oh I didn't know that. D:

e.s.c. wrote:

beyond the fact that you can sync a gba to a DMG using official nintendo cables which would seem to imply that there is little to no difference in the way the units send/receive link

There is a difference, because you can't use gba cables with old games or old cables with gba games.

edit: this http://www.hardwarebook.info/Game_Boy_Link

Last edited by TmTgr (May 8, 2010 12:52 pm)

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the mist toggles wrote:

NOT TESTED:
2. sync to LSDJ (soon)

Any info on that yet?

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San Francisco
ovenrake wrote:

that 4 ended cable made me all

id fuck it. /me shrugs

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Interesting thread.

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Ciudad de méxico, MX

can this gba micro cables can be used to make an usb charger?

Last edited by Analog (Sep 30, 2011 5:58 am)

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motone wrote:
the mist toggles wrote:

NOT TESTED:
2. sync to LSDJ (soon)

Any info on that yet?

A quick audio sample that i've made in 30 minutes


DMG LSDJ synced with nanoloop 2.5 on a gba micro works!


it goes like this:


DMG         pin           pin      GBA micro
SO            2              3                      SI
SI              3              2                     SO
SC            5              5                     SC
GND         6              6                   GND


so far so good,... it start and stop using the DMG on nano mode, and also changes the tempo; and setting the nl 2.5 in slave mode, over de >> in the second menu and press B+A

Using the links that you guys gave here and here

ps:no need of 5v cables and all that jazz.

EDIT: is working awesome. 6 ticks  based grooves like lsdj manual suggests. if you stop the DMG you need to do the whole slave thing on the micro.

thanks Tmt for this thread!

Last edited by Analog (Oct 15, 2011 4:55 am)