What is the pinout of the GameShark Pro’s SharkLink cable?

Solution 1:

You needed a 25 Pin Male to 25 Pin Female printer lead back in the day, but most PCs don't have that port anymore. Easiest way to go about it is dust off the old XP machine as the software won't run on the newer OS. Here's the Manual if anyone needs it, good luck finding the software if you don't already have it though

http://www.mindspring.com/~glaciuscool/gspro/doc/gspro.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20110426190730/http://gscentral.org/tools.html

Solution 2:

I found this site while trying to get an image of the connector. I'm not sure if you are going to find someone who knows the direct pin-outs but I also recall that this device used a standard parallel cable to connect to a PC. I bought one of these GameSharks when it fist came out and I seem to recall that my families printer cable worked just fine with the device.

I don't know how to create an adapter because the pin-outs would be specific to the softwares communications implementation. If you only have a serial port on your PC, then you will obviously need some form of converter. Being that this device seemed to be a bit "cheap", I would personally assume that a standard AT converter would work, which you can get for a really reasonable price. The converter may not work, but if I was in your position, I'd be confident enough that it might work that I'd spend the $4 or $5 to get one of these converters and hope for the best.