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  1. Re:shooting themselves in the foot by Fjord · · Score: 1 · on Xbox 2 - The Price of Compatibility?

    I usually keep my PS1 mem card in slot 1 and PS2 mem card in slot 2. Most PS2 games will actually check the second slot for a memory card, but I have a few PS1 games that require the memory card to be in the left slot.

    Forget about it with a multitap. That just screws everything up.

    Speaking of PS2 stuff, check these out. PS2 controllers working on a PC, fairly badass.

  2. You can dance under Linux, too by Pegasus · · Score: 3, Informative · on RedOctane Pushes DDR For Weight Loss Market

    See PyDDR. Prebuilt for most of the popular distributions, requires some work to get it working from scratch. Hook your pad (or two) to your PC with the help of a $15 adapter and you're ready to go. Song collections can be found all over the net.

  3. Huh. by KyolFrilander · · Score: 3, Interesting · on RedOctane Pushes DDR For Weight Loss Market
    Funny, I started doing the same thing just recently after I found out how much it made my pasty overweight geek ass sweat while playing it at a friend's house. Too soon to tell if I'll lose any weight, but eh, it's fun, it's relatively easy, and it does get the heart rate up, if nothing else. If the $99 RedOctane DDR pads are too spendy for you, Buy N Shop or Level Six both sell knockoffs for half the price, and they're identical, from reviews.

    More information at Stepmania - even more if they ever get their board back from ddrmaniax.

  4. USB-PSX converters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Converting a PSX Controller for PC Use

    I have a PS to USB adaptor from Level Six Once you get one of these things, is there a good program to map keyboard keys to each button or something? I can't change what my buttons are for in MAME and my street fighter buttons are screwed up.

  5. Re: Frozen Bubble by muirhead · · Score: 3, Informative · on Arcade Stick For Soul Calibur II Announced
    ...load up linux[playstation2-linux.com] and play frozen bubble[frozen-bubble.org].

    I agree it's a great looking accessory, but $200 for playstation linux is outrageous.
    Stick with your PC and use a PS2 to USB adapter. It'll be cheaper, easier and, (if you happen to swing both ways,) you can also use the joystick to play Windows games.

  6. Re:Need Joysticks by SirDaShadow · · Score: 1 · on Tulip to Relaunch C64

    Try a ps2->usb adapter, they work pretty well with basically all emulators and PC games. LevelSix.com

  7. Re:If only by Dimensio · · Score: 2 · on MAME Ported to (Chipped) Xbox

    I've always believed that the Sony Playstation/Playstaion 2 had the most comfortable and versatile controller available (though that's just my opinion). When the standard gamepad controller doesn't work (I cannot use it in fighting games), I have durable arcade-layout style joystick from ASCII (Unfortunately I'm not sure that the model is available anymore). That's why I got PSX->PC and PSX/PS2->GameCube controller adapters, and if I had an XBox I would certainly get a PSX/PS2->XBox controller adapter.

  8. Re:hard to make? by Gizzmonic · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Serial Cables Illegal Due to DMCA?
    Yes, you can make your own. You just have to order a Dreamcast serial cable (used for networking games like Virtual On 2 and Ferrari F355 Challenge) and splice it together with a regular serial cable. You can get the DC serial cable from level six or Lik-Sang.

    I myself ordered a "DC Coder's Cable" from Lik-Sang a few months ago, and had it shipped via airmail (USPS). It arrived without a problem. Anyway, the fact that SEGA would nail people for this is very strange, especially since the DC is all but dead and the serial cables are (mostly) used for legitimate purposes, by Dreamcast homebrew hackers.

    I wonder if this thing was misidentified by customs as one of Lik-Sang's "Gameboy Advance Backup and Development system. Nintendo has always been more sensitive to piracy, and the GameBoy Advance seems like a big enough market to crack the whip on.

  9. Re:Dreamcast by Camhorn · · Score: 1 · on Dreamcast Postmortem

    I agree with everyone saying that the DC controller sucks in comparison with Sony's. Which is why I got this product. It works pretty well, except that the DC uses a much smaller deadzone that DualShock wants, so there is occassional drifting.