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Among other choices... Provision+ DVD Decoder I have it on good authority that it works like a champ, although I personally would never own anything like this that would allow me to circumvent a content protection system. :-)

On-on!

This is what I use with PS2 Linux http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=22&produ cts_id=2519& I can probably type 4 WPM on it; which is why I SSH in on my Zaurus since I can type on that keyboard twice as fast. Seriously though, I bought this controller for when I take my PS2 Linux kit to my friends house. I just need the keyboard to login and start X. Then I can use the analog stick as the mouse. All of the other buttons are programmed to control XMMS. I really need Linux running on a normal computer.

The best way to get a good gamepad for the PC is just to use one of your console gamepads. You just need a USB adapter. I have a couple that support N64 and PSX gamepads, and use those, but they make them for just about everything. Here's a link to a place selling a hojillion varieties, including a 4-controller xbox-to-usb adapter for $20. You just plug it in and windows detects it and uses it like any other multi-axis analog gamepad. You'll need to do some button mapping, but that's it. $20, and use your existing favorite gamepads-- and you're off to the races!

Me and my cohorts at S+F Software are getting a game published via the Goat Store, if they can get the pressing details worked out. It's a addictive four player puzzle game called Inhabitants, also available on Lik-Sang

The nice thing about the DC is that it is quite easy to code for using open tools. The KallistOS library gives you easy access to the hardware. It even has a openGL library that does a decent job for simple 3d stuff, and a badass object oriented 2d library.

You can also buy it in lik-sang:

Official Nintendo Component cable in lik-sang

I didn't continue my search, but I'm sure I could have found more examples.

However, I know that this cable is somewhat hard to find in local stores, but there isn't some Nintendo backed conspiracy against Component cables...

Gamecube CAN support DVDs... just not your standard GC, you have to get the pimped out Panasonic version... Definitely wow factor

Just buy a GP32.

I think what you're searching for is the GamePark GP32. It's completely open. There are native games for the system, but from what I heard most of them aren't worth bothering. The 133MHz ARM9 makes the system good for emulation and its open structure allows for lots of ports (ScummVM, Doom engine, etc).

"Nintendo, don't see fit to even seriously bother with as an accessory."

You mean like this?

I think you meant Nintendo's iQue

I'm a Nintendo advocate so take whatever I say with a grain of salt.

There are 1GB flash cards available but I don't think that just because the technology exists that Nintendo should use it. It would simply be cost prohibitive.

Granted these "new" MC 1019 cards are 8MB which is the same as both the PS2 and Xbox standard cards, 8MB goes a lot farther on the GC. Why? Simply because developers should be used to not having scads of save RAM to use.

There are other reasons of course. The PS2 MC interface has at least one 3D model associated with each game. This model (and it's associated textures and other data) can be animated to even perform secondary animations when the save file is deleted. Talk about your waste of space. I seem to remember "Ridge Racer V" using close to 600k of space which would be bigger than an entire Nintendo MC 59 simply to store configuration data and high scores. Contrast this to several GC games ("Metroid Prime" being a fine example) that use 1 block to store 3 save files. I don't even want to talk about the Xbox "bloat saves" that can't even be copied to a memory card.

FYI, 1 block is 8kB just like the original 15 block PlayStation memory cards. Sony's list price is still $20 for those. Should we all scream foul?

Yes, Nintendo makes money off of memory cards and if you would've brought up the "incompatible" SD Card adapter then you would've had a point. But really, when the prices drop, and they soon will as when the MC 251 came out, it just means that customers will be getting more RAM for their buck. Is this really a bad thing?

It really isn't the same.
There's a huge difference between playing on a plastic / foam / metal / milrith pad and playing on the real machine.
If you're not interested in getting good, just in keeping fit, the home version will do fine. As has been previously mentioned, the game is addictive, and you may find yourself wanting to enter tournaments :)

Are you enjoy?

It really isn't the same.
There's a huge difference between playing on a plastic / foam / metal / milrith pad and playing on the real machine.
If you're not interested in getting good, just in keeping fit, the home version will do fine. As has been previously mentioned, the game is addictive, and you may find yourself wanting to enter tournaments :)

Are you enjoy?

It really isn't the same.
There's a huge difference between playing on a plastic / foam / metal / milrith pad and playing on the real machine.
If you're not interested in getting good, just in keeping fit, the home version will do fine. As has been previously mentioned, the game is addictive, and you may find yourself wanting to enter tournaments :)

Are you enjoy?

I use stepmania with a pc and a solid dance mat, mainly for exercise rather than enjoyment. I try to do 40-50 minutes of pretty fast dancing a day, which used to be enough to knacker me out, but these days I have to hold 5kg weights while dancing to get a decent workout.

I wasn't fat to start with, just unfit, but it is most definitely good exercise if you can get fast enough and do lots of songs one after another. Most of the stories on the internet about people losing weight with DDR seems to be from obese people getting down to normal weight, which I guess doesn't require one to get so good at DDR, nor spend much money on arcades/mats.

Whether it is any better than just going out running is debatable; I guess it depends on your personality whether you will find an hours DDR more boring than 40 minutes running, and whether you have enough money to get a decent mat. I've moved on to alternating between DDR and running; running for endurance training, DDR for quick intense sprint type bursts and a better upper body workout (with the weights).

All right, first off, I would like to say that I have lost weight by playing DDR - not much, mind you, but some. Enough for me. (I do other things too, but primarily DDR.) As far as equipment goes, it sounds like what you are looking for is very similar to my own setup. I use an open-source DDR emulator called Stepmania that runs under Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. (Note, I run it under Windows, personally, and cannot vouch for how well the other versions work.) I use a pair of pads that I bought off eBay for about $40 (similar to these), which I like a lot better than the really thin ones that tend to be more common. Finally, I have an adapter to hook the Playstation gamepads to my PC through USB. As for songs, there are several places around the Net to find them...I'm sure someone else will mention them, but just know that it's illegal to have them unless you own a copy of them (which sometimes means having a machine). As such, I'll leave that as an exercise for you to find, if you so wish.

After deciphering your post, I have to agree. These kind of controllers were actually fairly common about ten years ago, but only on consoles. I have a Capcom Fighter Power Stick here that I'm sure would be awesome if I could somehow use it on the PC. Fortunately, I just found this. It seems pretty inexpensive for what it does - I think I'm going to give it a shot.

here

Now, whats the deal with the antenna to mars?

Also note that the z-trigger isn't on the back of this and it's probably heavier to hold.. all stuff that interests me anyway :)

Despite all this negativity i applaud Nintendo for re-inventing their old hardware in smaller, neater designs... now can we just have a built in screen and call it a proper portable N64 please :) (j/k, the future is the GBA 2, or whatever they call it, with low power processor).

The similarities go even deeper, my friend!

Remember that Apple have both the consumer and professional range in both portables and desktops? The iBook vs. the PowerBook, and the iMac vs. the PowerMac (educational desktop not originally intended to have a full place in line up).

Let's take this way of thinking back to Nintendo's camp. They have the GameBoy Advance SP vs. the Nintendo DS, and the GameCube vs... Hang on a minute, there is a hole in their line-up! Does that mean we are going to get a re-released SNES, or an all singing über-console? Or does the iQue already fit the spot of consumer model here? Consumer machine beginning with an i? Coincidence? I think not!

(Brought to you via the sacrificing of two mod points well spent...)

You need a proprietary set of earphones on the GBA SP

With a cheap adapter, which is also sold by third parties, the GBA SP works with any pair of lightweight headphones with a common 1/8" diameter miniplug. If you're ordering anything from, say, Lik Sang, you can add a headphone adapter to your order for just $2.99.

>> There's only so many buttons you can put on a
>> controller
> You just aint trying hard enough.

Well.. Someone are... :)

More mockups

Another from the first place

mockups from Lik-sang

Not to mention the fact that this "development kit" was designed for use with a Nintendo product which, by law, Nintendo owns all rights to, including the ability to deny and/or approve of who can develop for it.
WHAT law? They have rights to all the standard libraries, sure, but if someone were to write code for the machine from the ground up, make carts, and sell them, Nintendo couldn't do a damn thing (provided that there was no use of Nintendo seals on packaging, etc.). See all the public-domain ROMs for reference, or Feet of Fury for the Dreamcast.

Which is easly defeated with an even older VCR (put that old beta machine to use!) or by a 24.95 device.

Are there any such videos available on the net? I've seen the Ikaruga Appreciate DVD, but as much as I like Ikaruga, $50 is a little high for a few run-throughs.

At least, that's how I hacked my Xbox v1.1. Plus, I took out the motherboard and used a conductive pen to jumper the write enable pads.

There are already some third-party addon memory cards. While I'm not sure about the exact hardware format used (SanDisk Memory), there are USB memory cards that can be used to transfer game saves easily amongst compatible devices.

Essentially a bare-bones ( not even Naomi ) Dreamcast config. Not surprising, considering that several Neo-Geo games were released on Dreamcast hence they already have experience with the platform.

Don't throw away your Dreamcasts just yet :)

Essentially a bare-bones ( not even Naomi ) Dreamcast config. Not surprising, considering that several Neo-Geo games were released on Dreamcast hence they already have experience with the platform.

Don't throw away your Dreamcasts just yet :)

The upcoming Playstation Portable (PSP) 1.8GB HD hasn't been mentioned as a contender. It's rewritable, decent size and surely they've reduced power consuption to a minimum, and with lots of production this winter, they should becoming cheap.

Guess what? It can read SD cards! You can get an adapter at Lik-Sang

Lik-sang.com sells (along with many other places) a converter that allows you to use your dual shock controllers with your x-box...My friend is a ps2 madden 2004 fiend and he whoops me when he plugs in his dual shock. I'm either going to switch to the dual shock or the logitech wireless controller soon; and this is coming from someone with the new "s" controllers and a couple asian market controllers that are smaller than the standard controller.

The camera is used as part of a game - to call it just a peripheral isn't entirely accurate - are the bongos used in Donkey Konga a games controller, peripheral or musical instrument?

The camera appeals to many different kinds of people as its a bit different, entertaining and something new at the same time.

Try Lik-Sang. They sell both the backlight and no backlight versions of the GP32.

Nintendo has broadband (Ethernet) adapters for sale here at their online store. They don't have them listed as backordered like some of their other items so they should be in stock.

For anyone who is thinking that the GC is useless running Linux without a hard drive, I would like to point out the SD flash RAM adapter and Mini DVD-R discs. While these aren't necessarily supported by the project at the moment, it's not too big of a stretch to imagine that they may be.

...like odd memory card replacements? CompactFlash adapter? IDE adapter? SCSI RAID adapter?...

Or maybe even an SD Card adapter.

The Gamecube can access SD memory cards. You could probably cram some programs onto that.

Well, Nintendo released (just in Japan, though) an adapter so that you can use SD Memory Cards instead of regular memory cards, for specially designed games. (Animal Crossing 2.) You can also use SD Memory Cards on your computer. In theory, these Linux guys could figure out how to get read-write access to this cards. (Or hell, just read.) Once you do that, you'd have a relatively easy way to transfer programs onto your Gamecube.

Although getting Linux itself up and running still sounds tedious and painful.

1. Get GC ASCII Keybord
2. Get Component cable
3. Profit!

1. Get GC ASCII Keybord
2. Get Component cable
3. Profit!

Initially, I bought a pair of these for Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and Playstation emulation. They're an inexpensive ($5/ea) playstation 1 controller clone (but in pretty translucent blue, which matched my cabinet nicely) but with much better action/feedback than the original playstation controllers. These worked great for the console emulators, and some MAME games, but there really is no substitute for a joystick and a handful of arcade buttons.

Recently, I decided to add a Nintendo 64 emulator to the cabinet also, but I was unable to find any USB controller that was close enough to the slightly-odd n64 controller to be usable. I settled on getting a pair of N64 to USB adapters.

At this time, there are basically just 2 available if you're bad at soldering, like me. The Adaptoid($30/ea), which is compatible with just about every n64 controller, and supports such niceties as rumblepads and memory packs, and the Lik Sang one ($12/ea), which features no rumble pad or memory pack support, and only works with the original black, gray, and yellow controllers. I went with the cheap ones :)

This gamepad is probably my favorite. It's a little harder to use than the standard PS2 Dual Shock controller, but the retro value more than makes up for it.

Along with the PS2 -> USB adaptor and a NES PC (although I had built mine before I ever heard of this gent), it's almost like having a real NES, and every game ever made to play on it. =D

Disclaimer: I do actually own all of these products. Not shilling.

PS Joy Converter

That and a Playstation Dual Shock controller will do you real well (also works with ddr pads... woot for stepmania!)

Real life tennis, that is.

Left handed people actually have an advantage in that sport.

Back to the topic at hand [pardon the pun]

The Left Hand doesn't carry video game controllers.

But, Lik-Sang carrys a left-handed PS2 controller

Imagine what 2 minutes of Googling for 'left handed playstation' could do for you

Lik sang apparently has a box that will allow you to use any kind of controller on the xbox. Magic Box It's not for everything, but it is interesting.

Each console has a single Wireless Controller if only because even having 3 chargers is a big deal in a cabinet. However, if your cabinet has a free drawer you could probably get 6-7 chargers in a 32 inch TV cabinet drawer. I don't have a whole lot of room for even chargers so having friends over to be able to use the extra 3 slots on my consoles is a big deal, so I just pull the cords outa the closet for the time being, and the ensuing spiderweb traps all from passing through the living room.

If chargers were smaller, or perhaps even controllers smaller this wouldn't be such a big deal. But having to put the whole controller into a charging station is a passive waste of space, as opposed to the active waste of space of cords (wrap up controller, store in cabinet/desk/etc etc.)

It really depends on your situation.

The Dreamcast BBA is hard to find lately and is usually at least $100. Unless you are a big dreamcast fanatic, it is probably not worth it. Not many games support it. If you only want it for homebrew, the coders cable (special serial cable) is available for about $20 I believe. You can upload games through that and even emulate an iso image as a cd in the drive over serial cable. It is slow but great for development. Otherwise just burn cds. As always, lots of great stuff available at lik-sang. I got an adaptor from them that lets you plug in a ps/2 keyboard, or a ps1/sega saturn controller along with a coders cable and an extension cord for the controller.

I also think most traditional RPGs and Strategy games don't really require more than one hand.

How is this better than a universal, memory card-based media player like the one I just found at: http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=50&produ cts_id=3983&