Current plan: IR sensor hardwire>arduino to decode and encode>gsm breakout board. As far as I've read you can control the ir sensor via hombrew, so i should be able to send it some data that it would normally try to transmit, gather it from whichever pin it goes to, feed it to the arduino and decode the binary to whichever command I'm trying to send then send that to the appropriate pin on the gsm board. Then do the same in reverse for receiving messages. Other options include figuring out how exactly the gamecard slot works and using that to send and recieve data. Not aware of any other serial data methods I could use. Does anyone have any resources on the IR? Also apologies if this is the most braindead idea you've ever read if it's not even possible