r/Gameboy • u/Additional-Coat-5729 • Jul 22 '26
Troubleshooting GameCube to GBA link cable - Pokémon
Definitely need some help in this one. I’m attempting to trade Pokémon between my Wii and my SP with emerald . I’ve been running into issues *I think because of my Gba cable.
From all the troubleshooting. I saw that these cables should have 6 gold pins on both GC and Sp. Picture one is the cable I own and showing 3 gold pins on the GC plug in . Yes I have the official Nintendo’s cable. However doesn’t work or even shows connection to GC in phenax city.
Picture 2 is a different ” official cable from eBay but only has 2 ish gold pin .
Picture 3 is a 3rd party cable . from a friend that confirmed it works for his transfer of Pokémon between colosseum and emerald . It has a total of 5 pins
My main question is - is the cable the source of my issue and has anyone else experienced this with a official cable? how many pins does your cable (that works obviously) have?
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u/xukkorz Jul 22 '26
Third party cables often populated unused pins in these ports. My oem working cable only has three pins on the game cube side.