o...srry, miscommunication i guess....anyway, what i do to trade is, get fr and r, get them both to a pokecenter, talk to the direct connect lady thing on fr and the trade center lady on r, then press a until it saves, then wait until r says "your friend isn't ready" it may be the cables, but i doubt it as i used 3 different ones that were compatable for the gameboy advance....and for colleseum, i turn on colleseum, plug my gameboy with fr into the gamecube in the second controller slot using one of those gameboy connecter things, go into the part where i can register, get confused, try going into story mode to find a trade center, look for about 15 minutes, get frustradted and shut off the game. that's how i trade in colleseum. ^^