Gaming My idea for the GC-GBA connectivity

[SS5 Gogeta]

I think the GC-GBA connectivity has great potential. But after seeing E3 and the past GC games. I think Nintendo is going in the wrong direction with this feature. Instead of using this to its full potential to attract more developers and people, they're using this as a gimmick to try to get people to spend more money. And I feel that this is starting to turn people off of Nintendo.

My idea for this is to have the games be compatible with more than just one game each time. They don't have to spend too much time on making them interact too much with each other but make them compatible for connectivity. Like this for example, I think everyone knows that Fire Emblem is gonna be released for GBA. Say if a person wanted to have the very strongest weapon, they could enter a cheatcode but they wouldn't get anything even half as strong as if they connected their GBA with Super Smash Bros. Melee. The GBA game would go into the data and see if that person has played as Marth or Roy long enough to reward him the weapon. Or if they beat the event battle "Fire Emblem Pride," than they could unlock even more powerful things.
So you see, the GC-GBA connectivity can be useful and not just a gimmick.

Sorry for such a long post (good read though)

[Epitome]

I agree, Gogeta, that would be nice if you could do that kind of stuff with the connection but it would be alot more work and make things even harder for Nintendo. One thing is that they might have to make more GBA games compatible with GC games and that would make it so that they would have to take longer times to put the games out. People want to play the games probably as well, and dont want to cheat to get the strongest weapon. In my opinion, I think doing that would spoil the game because it would make it to easy. Those are just my thoughts though.

[SS5 Gogeta]

Yeah, they could create certain rules to limit the cheating either by having to beat it a few times or collecting all the items.

But think about the possibilities, some day, Sega could release a GBA cartridge with professional voice acting in it and now you could play Skies of Arcadia with voice acting and with macro keys.
Use your imagination. Or think about this, not only Metroid:Zero Mission can hook up with just Metroid Prime 2. It could hook up with Metroid Prime as well to unlock a bonus boss fight with Metroid Prime in 2d.

Nintendo is not going online but they're focusing on this connectivity so I want it to be REALLY good. If any of you come up with any ideas you can just post them here.

[Epitome]

Actually, I get what your saying. That would be kind of cool once you think about it. But they should also put some effort into going online too, but since they are working on this, why not make it awesome.

[SS5 Gogeta]

And the best part is that this connectivity will only keep getting better and better. It can make 3rd party games play best on the gamecube and mediocore games seem more fun

[Epitome]

Whoa, thats pretty awesome. I wonder if they would do that or not. Hmph, maybe but I dont think because they concentrate on games more than anything, I think.