Comments on: Speculating over the Original Intentions Behind the Gamecube’s Hi-Speed Port

By: Ashlynnxs

Ashlynnxs — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:49:16 +0000

well done, guy

By: Chris K.

Chris K. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:10:17 +0000

The online adapter did fit right in there if I remember. Haven’t used it for while. Only really used it for homebrew development actually. A great little machine for that!

By: Press The Buttons

Press The Buttons — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:04:06 +0000

Hi, Speed Port…

Nintendo consoles are notorious for featuring add-on ports that never have anything, well, added on outside of Japan. The Nintendo Entertainment System had a port for an unreleased disk drive, the Super NES featured a similar slot that collected dust,…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:28:24 +0000

Hey Badazz, thanks for the comment.

Can you add a bit more information about this ‘high speed peripheral’ as I’m unfamiliar with it. As far as I know the Gameboy Player is the only peripheral to utilize the port.

The LAN/Online games utilized the Serial Ports underneath the Hi-speed port (left - broadband adaptor, right - dial up adaptor).

By: Badazz

Badazz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:51:32 +0000

There were a few uses for the highspeed port. There was a high speed peripheral that could plug into this port. There were a couple games that utilized the online feature. They were the Phantasy Star Online games. Other than that, the only other game that I can think of that used it was Mario Kart, and it only used it for LAN connection of consoles.