Panasonic 'Q' First Look

austinij writes "National Console Support has purchased and taken apart the Panasonic 'Q', a Nintendo Gamecube/DVD player device in one. Pictures and brief descriptions are included. Lets hope for a review soon! " That just looks so nifty. I've heard of DVD players including PS1 support in the not so distant future too. Apparently its fairly inexpensive to do it now.

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Re:DVD players with PS1 support...

[ImaLamer]

Your sig 0wnz and it's the funniest one I've read ever....

sorry :(

Slashdot Should Use Geolocation Tech

[malus]

perhaps /. should use geolocation to limit the visibility of stories like this one, at certain times, so the damned links don't get slashdotted...

Start in the east, and slowly move west...

Re:Does this mean...

[Knightmare]

wow somebody is on their period, easy tiger...

Here in Indianapolis

[Cyberllama]

This has been nothing but headaches for arcade goers. I'm a college student and I can't tell how irritating it was to get carded at an arcade. The way most arcades were doing it (the ones who use cards not tokens) they'd put out two sets of cards, one programmed to play any game, and one that won't play the over-16 games. Alot of the time I'd just end up trading with some poor under-16 smchuck, take his card and go back up to the counter and complain that I was given a under-16 card. I liked to think of it as "freedom-fighting". :)

Re:DVD players with PS1 support...

[Com2Kid]

Its called a PC. :)

Seriously though, for about the price of the latest greatest consol + some games + controlers + memory cards you can get yourself a decent 1ghz PC. (~$500)

Hell at that price I bought two.

Grab a TV out card from someplace if you must (eew) though there are other better ways to go about it, heh. Those other ways tend to be more expensive though. :(

Anyways, plug it in and run. Heh.

Actualy for MAME as long as you don't want to run the newer, uh, less moraly justifiable games, a 266mhz machine or so is more then enough. Defintly go with Intel for the FPU (AMD's floating point capibilities sucked back then) but shoot, my PII266mhz w/64megs of RAM could run most NeoGeo games at all speed (using NeoRageX for that feat of course. :) ) and any MAME game that wasn't newer then 1995 or so.

A PII266mhz will cost you what in the papers now? $250 or so?

Ah, here is a video card with S-VIDEO out

MX400 Pro-TC64S

Geforce2MX, so you can play some games at 800x600 as well.

Only $75

Heres one up

PowerColor PowerGene Ti GeForce2 (TV Out) 64MB DDR AGP

Only $105.00

The PowerColor nVidia TNT2 Sniper2 (TV Out) 32MB AGP is only $54 but I don't know if it has S-Video or not.

(nor am I sure about the rest of them, but they are newer and therefore much more likely to have it)

All prices from http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant. mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=M&Category_Code=VC (no idea if they are good or not, but they were the first result on my google search. :) )

So, hmm.

~$250 for a computer that can run MAME. Add $20 for a LiteON DVD drive. $270.

+ $100 for a Video Card that can do what you want it too. Add $5 for a splitter cable to get the sound from your computer to your computer, though some TV-OUT products come with one, and you have a grand total of $355 for a TV-OUT MAME machine.

w00t.