The History of the GameCube Broadband Adapter - The Promise Of What Could Have Been

[@jamesroviezzo7924]

I remember me and my friends did the online GameCube for kirby air ride we had to bring are GameCube over each other house it’s was so stupid hooking up 4 GameCubes at once

[@ArchadesGames]

Lol nice!!

[@jordychinchin]

Very cool video essay! Had no idea there was a Japan-exclusive online Gamecube game that supported 32 players. PSO on GC is a very special game to me and I vividly remember getting to play it online for a short while. Wishing I held onto my broadband & modem adapters ( my brothers and I had both) and my original PSO disc

[@ArchadesGames]

I only got to play the GC version through private servers, but I was glad I got to play Blue Burst for a while on official Sega servers! I had both for a while as well but ended up parting with the Modem Adapter since it was pretty useless.

[@jordychinchin]

@@ArchadesGames Ephinea is also a great alternative for playing PSOBB online in 2023! Funny enough, with the adapters it was actually the opposite for my brother and I. We couldn't get PSO GC to connect with the broadband adapter BUT were able to get it to work with the modem adapter. The big issue with that though was since we were essentially using a dial up connection it meant we would get kicked off every time our house phone would receive a phone call and our mom's friend would constantly call kicking us off all the time during the day 😂

[@SMWiz]

Excellent review of the history of this device.

[@ArchadesGames]

Thanks for watching Wiz!

[@oCHANCEo]

Halo 2 in the intro! That game changed online multiplayer forever! Those ranks were life!

[@ArchadesGames]

It was the only logical choice to represent Gen 6 online gaming for me!

[@Valery0p5]

I didn't think nintendont had that functionality, and I thought emulating it was a PITA 😅 good to know that's not true! Thanks for the informative video! I wish there was an easier way to enjoy the DS online functionalities nowadays, with WEP encryption for physical consoles and only MelonDS actually working on netplay for local multiplayer games, which often had most of the functionalities...

[@ufoguy]

The idea of " The history of" is great! I have 0 knowledge about Gamecube and Xbox so I would love to see videos about the history of those :) P.S - the first few min of the video blew me up with info! Stock market on the NES rocks :D

[@ArchadesGames]

History vids were supposed to be a bigger part of this channel. Things got in the way...

[@Azkhalon]

Awesome video! I’ve never played a GameCube before. It was a console I skipped completely somehow. But I just bought one the other day after hearing great things about the console. So when I saw this video pop up for me, I had to watch it. Thanks for sharing a history about this console. I was wondering what those slots were for on the bottom of my GameCube!

[@ArchadesGames]

Welcome to the Cube! There are sooo many great games for it that you are going to have a blast with. As for ports if you are still cutious, Serial Port 1 is for the Modem/Broadband Adapter. Serial Port 2 never had a consumer use and was removed in later models. It is used now for homebrew storage. And the High Speed Port is for the Gameboy Player.

[@Azkhalon]

@@ArchadesGames thanks for the info! Yeah, I've been hearing about the amazing games for it. Planning to start my collection soon!

[@ArchadesGames]

Rogue Squadron 2 is a must as my recommendation 😂

[@noobking111]

The real tragedy to me is nintendo picked the worst console to back out of online on. A shame considering they were one of the first to do online with the nes ans snes. Yet the GC backed out when it really gained gamer insight. Could you emagine if mkdd, mario party, or any other nintendo games had it? Such a missed opportunity

[@ArchadesGames]

Right, it sucks to think they could have jumped in full force...

[@riddikGTdu68]

Really good this video 👍, as I was disappointed when Mario Kart GameCube had no online, but good xbox was there with an online at the top for the time😉

[@ArchadesGames]

Yeah, Xbox was the best for online at the time, even with a paid subscription.

[@leonardpayne8795]

What about GameCube Modem Adapter?

[@ArchadesGames]

What about it exactly?

[@leonardpayne8795]

@@ArchadesGames I bought it on eBay a long time ago.