Did you use the Wireless Adapter?

Did you use the Wireless Adapter?

  • No, never.

    Votes: 55 47.4%

  • I used it once or twice, until the novelty wore off.

    Votes: 35 30.2%

  • Yes, I used it all the time.

    Votes: 26 22.4%
  • Total voters
    116
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It seems like nobody remembers the Wireless Adapter that came with every copy of FRLG. Which leads me to suspect that it ranks as one of the most unused/unloved peripherals ever. Does anyone else share this opinion, or am I jumping to conclusions here?
 
Only once. I had a newer "Players Choice" copy which lacked the adapter, so I borrowed a friends only to make 1 trade. It was cool, but more expensive (and complicated) then the link cable, so I just stuck with the cable.
 
Simply put, the Wireless Adapter was an alternative to the link cable, which most people had already owned prior to the release of FireRed and LeafGreen. As it was incompatible with Ruby and Sapphire, and two were required to trade or battle while only one copy of the link cable was needed, I didn't use it very often.

It was a fun extra nonetheless, and worked fine if you lacked a link cable.
 
My take: The Wireless Adapter was hampered by the fact that it didn't work with Ruby and Sapphire, the fact that it was released during the later part of the GBA's lifespan, and by the fact that the DS quickly made wireless peripherals redundant. As for me, I have seldom used the wireless adapter, as I rarely got to see my friends outside of school when the Adapter was first released. Maybe I'd be more appreciative of it if I had more chances to use it.
 
I never got one :)
(And yes, I have gen3 games, RS and FR (And ShinyGold and Perla, but I'm not allowed to talk about them).)
 
No, I got my leafgreen secondhand (turned out to be a fake later), so I didn't have that wireless thing with it.
 
My LeafGreen didn't come with it, so... no. Although I do remember wanting one when I saw its uses in LeafGreen and Emerald.
 
Arc Blader said:
My take: The Wireless Adapter was hampered by the fact that it didn't work with Ruby and Sapphire, the fact that it was released during the later part of the GBA's lifespan, and by the fact that the DS quickly made wireless peripherals redundant. As for me, I have seldom used the wireless adapter, as I rarely got to see my friends outside of school when the Adapter was first released. Maybe I'd be more appreciative of it if I had more chances to use it.
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Not only did it not work with R/S, but due to the way it was designed, support for the adapter had to be programmed into the game itself for it to work, as it was not backwards compatable. Only around 20-30 GBA games had support for it, so most people just used link cables. Because of that, the wireless adapter was not very popular.

Nintendo later used the Wireless Adapter as an idea for the wireless link built into the DS.

Also, did you know that there was a wireless adapter made for the Game Boy Micro?
 
I remember two of my friends from long ago using a pair of them; they got a communication error or something and immediately gave up on them and said screw it.
Haven't seen one since.
 
Yeah. I found the box. It doesn't matter, I don't own a GBA, I just used the DS GBA slot, so I wouldn't have been able to use it anyway.
 
Everytime, when I was trading Pokémon between my LeafGreen and my "friend's" FireRed... so probably less than five times?
 
For some reason, my copies of FR/LG never came with the Wireless Adapter. I learned how to deal with not being able to take advantage of the wireless features that way.
 
The Wireless Adapter was a bigger deal in Japan, where there were more Mystery Gift events. More importantly, the real-life Pokémon Centers scattered over the country amplified the adapter's signal, making them popular hubs for essentially random battles and trades. Lastly, there was a service called "Joyspot" in Pokémon Centers and various retail stores, where players would battle special NPCs in the Union Room and then be ranked according to their overall score.

Last but not least, it would appear from unused text in FRLG and Emerald that Game Freak had many more plans for Mystery Gift, which ended up not being used. The Altering Cave was one such feature, but there were also the battle rooms (in Seven Island and Sootopolis City) meant for trainer data downloaded via Mystery Gift. Also of note is that players were apparently supposed to receive items upon Mystery Gift communication, much like in the Generation II feature with the same name.
 
wait wait wait. it CAME with FR/LG? me and my cousin got both version(me FR her LG) and NEITHER CAME WITH ONE!

OOC:not mad at u ppl, mad at nintendo.

EDIT:eek:ops, dont have to put ooc
 
Landog22 said:
wait wait wait. it CAME with FR/LG? me and my cousin got both version(me FR her LG) and NEITHER CAME WITH ONE!
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As said earlier in the thread, Wireless Adapters did not come with the player's choice editions of the games. Did you buy those?
 
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