Yes, people are still playing GameCube online - believe it or not, there are dozens of us. Maybe even a hundred! The only problem is that the more distance there is between players, the more the game will look like a slo-mo scene from The Matrix (see above for a recent race between someone in the US and someone in Chile). It doesn’t help that, even if you have everything necessary to go online, setting things up can be a pain in the ass. So, in the interest of getting more people to join the GameCube online community and hopefully make the games a bit more playable for everyone, here’s the simplest connection method (that uses a real GameCube) I’ve seen yet. What you need:

• A GameCube, duh
• A GameCube Broadband Adapter (NOT the cheaper Modem Adapter, sorry)
• A Raspberry Pi, any model with an Ethernet port will do
• A Micro-SD card with at least 4GB
• Two Ethernet cables, one for the GameCube Broadband Adapter and one for the Pi
• If you don’t have easy access to your router, might want to get an Ethernet hub. Alternatively, you could use a Wi-Fi USB adapter (or the Raspberry Pi 3′s built-in Wi-Fi), but that will probably add some lag/slo-mo to your games. Stick with Ethernet, trust me.

STEP 1: Preparing the Raspberry Pi

1.1. Go to https://github.com/toolboc/psx-pi-smbshare/releases/ and download the latest release (the file ending in tar.gz). Extract the .img file inside.

1.2. Go to http://etcher.io and download Etcher for Windows, if you have Windows, or Etcher for The Other Things, if you have The Other Things. Install it.

1.3. Open Etcher, click “select image”, and select the .img file we extracted up there. If you insert your Micro-SD card into your computer now, Etcher will probably recognize it automatically, but if not, click “Select a drive” and pick your SD card. Then click “Flash!” (ahh-ah) and let the program do its thing.