The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures, a four-player Zelda connectivity adventure, combines gameplay on both the GameCube and Game Boy Advance for a mix of competitive and cooperative multiplayer fun. By hooking up GBAs to the GameCube, the action will move from the television screen (when players are on the overworld map), to the GBA screen (when entering houses and caves). Players work together to brave 24 challenges in eight levels in Hyrule Adventure (1-4 players, multiplayer only with GBAs) or compete in 10 frantic multiplayer versus battles (2-4 players, GBAs required). Takes place in similar environments as the SNES classic Link to the Past, but features updated character sprites, new special effects, and overall improved graphics. The Japanese version included an additional mode, known as Navi Trackers.

Game Boy Advance <-> GameCube Connectivity
This title supports GameBoy Advance connection, which can be used via joybus emulation. This requires VBA-M (r947 or newer) and a dump of GBA BIOS.

Setup VBA-M first - settings differ per version, these are instructions for 2.0.0-beta2 (tested working with Dolphin 5.0):
 * 1) Launch VBA-M
 * 2) Emulation => Uncheck "Pause when inactive"
 * 3) Options => Game Boy Advance => Configure => Boot ROM => Browse => Select GBA BIOS file
 * 4) Options => Game Boy Advance => Check "Use BIOS file"
 * 5) Options => Link => Type => GameCube
 * 6) Options => Link => Check "Local mode"
 * 7) Options => Link => Check "Link at boot"
 * 8) Close VBA-M to save settings

Using VBA-M with Dolphin
 * 1) Launch Dolphin and set Dolphin controllers to GBA
 * 2) Start Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
 * 3) Open VBA-M
 * 4) File => Open => Select GBA BIOS file
 * 5) When it boots up (after BIOS screen) it should show a screen saying "Look at the TV screen !" - if you see this, it works
 * 6) Repeat last two steps to add more players

Troubleshooting
 * 1) Unblock Dolphin and VBA-M in your firewall
 * 2) Remember your controller settings are setup in VBA-M. VBA-M will treat each player as "Player 1", so make sure you setup different controller configurations for each. You could make a copy of the VBA-M directory to have multiple configs.
 * 3) VBA-M 2.0.0-beta2 requires window focus for keyboard input. Use a joypad for other players or possibly try older versions of VBA-M. Alternatively you could setup to connect across multiple computers over LAN

Navi Tracker Audio Issues
VBA-M does not correctly handle the audio from the Navi Trackers mode. This is not a fault of Dolphin, as a modified version of mGBA does not share the issues and works properly.

Problems
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Multiple GBAs
HLE audio can only support 1 GBA as of the New-Zelda-HLE rewrite. Use DSP-LLE (with a DSP ripped from a Wii/GC) in order to play with multiple players. Fixed by

HLE Navi's Trackers Hang (JP version)
When using HLE audio emulation the game will hang when trying to use Navi's Trackers mode /w a GBA. Navi Trackers requires DSP-LLE (with a DSP ripped from console) in order to function properly. Fixed by

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HD Textures
|The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures HD

16:9 Widescreen Gecko Code
The Built-in Widescreen Hack does nothing in this game. The following Gecko codes work as a replacement.

NA
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EU
$16:9 Widescreen F6000001 80008180 ED8B5024 ED4B0024 D2000000 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C27000 C2627000 ED5302B2 ED8B5024 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 ED494024 ED090024 D2000000 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C27000 C1E27000 ED0F0232 ED494024 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000

JP
F6000001 80008180 ED8B5024 ED4B0024 D2000000 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C27000 C2627000 ED5302B2 ED8B5024 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000 F6000001 80008180 ED494024 ED090024 D2000000 00000004 3DC03FAA 61CEAAAB 91C27000 C1E27000 ED0F0232 ED494024 60000000 00000000 E0000000 80008000