Thread: Did you use the Wireless Adapter?

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?

You're just jumping to conclusions dude

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.

Originally Posted by Arc Blader

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.

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.

I don't believe I ever got one of those with my FR

Originally Posted by Rakarei

I don't believe I ever got one of those with my FR

You probably bought the player's choice version, then. The Wireless Adapter didn't come packed with those.

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.

My sister had FireRed and I had LeafGreen, so we used it all the time.

Everytime, when I was trading Pokémon between my LeafGreen and my "friend's" FireRed... so probably less than five times?