Posted by Paleface on January 04, 2025 at 16:55:41 EST.
What cable is this sparkly purple "SL1638" thing? Thought it was a Nyko(?) NGPC link cable but can't quite find a match for it.
I for some reason thought this sparkly purple 5-pin NGP(C?) link cable I've had in the cupboard for years was a Nyko thing, but I can't find a photo that quite looks like it, and the only matches I've found for the "SL1638" code on both sides of both plugs of this one are a) an uncertain forum listing for a Madcow Sun Light https://www.neo-geo.com/forums/index.php?threads/neop-product-codes-required.85374/ (also lists a Madcow Link Cable but with a different code, "Madcow Link Cable LC-806," and I couldn't find anything about that), which may have got it from the listing b) here https://www.vidgame.net/SNK/NGPC.html for "3rd party worm light" (that one DOES kinda look like a Sun Light?) (Nyko made a "POWER WORM LIGHT" for NGPC but it has a very different plug housing and also an attached battery pack.)
IGN mentions Nyko's POWERLINK (they call it "Power Link") NGPC cable was "bright purple" https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/01/15/power-link , but the only NGPC purple link cable mentioning Power Link or anything like it that I can find is this one https://www.gamevortex.com/gamevortex/hard_rev.php/237/power-link-ngpc.html , and the plastic housing around the plugs is different, and the write-up below the blurry photos showing a purple cable calls it "blue."
I've found photos of a purple Nyko POWERLINK cable for GBC with multicolored plugs https://www.reddit.com/r/AnaloguePocket/comments/18brctf/i_wonder_if_this_24_year_old_powerlink_gameboy/ .
Oh yeah and this blue Nyko NGPC POWERLINK System Link Cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/226159408090 -- again, different plug housings.
So what is this one? Nyko? Madcow? Something else?
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