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  1. Posted · Edited by rockfistus

    Most peripherals end up with few uses, and just to even the thread out here area few on the Xbox...

     

    Steel Battalion Controller - ok there was never any mention or promise of any further use of this fine fine beast, but what a wasted opurtunity. It was just always supposed to be a small niche market.

     

    Any Xbox gun - very few gun compatible games ever made.

     

    Xbox Flight stick - but no real flight sims made on Xbox renders this totally useless.

     

    Xbox also has 4 USB ports but they have been so underused it's unreal. (Not helped by MS's policy of no mouse or keyboard use in the early years)

     

    The hard drive should also have been used better. Although custom soundtrack and live content do make good use of it. I just wish the games could have used it to give a better gaming experience.

     

    Now I know most of these are 3rd party peripherals, but they are still underused.

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    Yeah, I dig lightgun games but they were never really supported more than 3 games on each system. I guess pheripherals are just doomed to fail no matter what. I almost bought that Guncon for my PS2 when it came out, I'm glad I didn't waste the money.

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    Lets start with an idea that didn't work last gen so they must have figured it was a personal relations problem and decided to use the same idea over again.  Of course I'm talking about the game boy to game cube link cable.  When this first came out it seemed like an interesting enough idea.  But few games used it and even fewer games did anything important with it.  The big problem here was you often needed to own both the GBA and game cube versions of the games to get any of the generally paltry extras unlocked.  And most of the time you actually had to beat both games to get anything, which lets face it that's easier said than done.  If you beat metroid prime and fusion you could connect them to swap suites, oh yeah!  Lets not forget you could unlock the first metroid, which Nintendo then released as its own game any way. 

     

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    Something your not taking into account is that Nintendo is busy building all of these cool things and making a few games that support them....but the 3rd parties aren't. Nintendo is making offbeat stuff like that constantly but your laying all the blame on them for lack of use when they're just putting cool stuff like the GBA/Gamecube link cable out there...and none of the 3rd parties take advantage. At least they try, that's all I'm saying. If they build a feature like that, you can't expect them to dedicate all of their time to making 20 games that support it.... They are a little busy working on the next Zelda, Mario, GBA games/Gamecube games/DS Games/Whatever and still managing to release at least a couple games that support the special hardware.

     

    Don't bash them for giving 3rd parties opportunities that they ignore. And there's no reason why the 3rd parties should feel like they have to use it either....but it would be nice to see it get used more.

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    I'm "rocko" just so ya guys know. So far I've been getting my ass kicked online :)

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    BUt having fun right! Thats all that matters to me, I don't mind if I have a losing record as long as its fun. I hate ethose SOBs that just want a winning record and log off if they are going to lose..... :x

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    Agreed, I always finish out the circuit whether I'm losing or not. People that drop out should be given a penalty of some sort. Of course someone's battery might run out or need to quit for some other reason but there should still be a penalty.

     

    But other than that it's fun. I really wish they would have included Battlemode on wi-fi.

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    Back when I was playing the 2600 in the 80's, I was full of wishful thinking of games like GTA existing one day.....and now we got it and people bitch. Well I understand the bitching because todays developers seem to think that just because we can make games in 3d that everything should be 3d.....

     

    2d and 3d, blocky and hi-res, those are just different styles of art as far as I'm concerned, no one type is better than the other.

     

    Same for the music and sound, I like my beepy music and in a game like GTA I like the studio music.

     

    Know what I mean?

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    I love my Genesis and Super Nintendo....those systems were the peak of console gaming. Both of them damnit. (I love my NES, 7800 and Gamecube too)

     

    Whatever the Genesis didn't have...the Super did. Whatever the SNES didn't have the genesis did. Super Mario World is a damn masterpiece, it bores me nowadays but I'll never forget how killer it was when it came out. Same for Sonic....I remember everyone wanted a Genesis after Sonic came out.

     

    One thing I'll never understand though is why the original Shinobi arcade game was never ported to the Genesis.......Damn you Sega! But Strider rocked! And you can't get that on the SNES surprisingly.

     

    :P

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    Does this mean no electronic work/soldering is required? Can I just cross some wires and have 2 buttons working (at my own discretion)?

     

    Does anyone specialize in converting SMS pads to 2-button 7800 pads? Please PM me. I can't handle the PainLine anymore, and my wife refuses to play with joysticks at all...

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    Painline :D I've never used those things and I never will.... I used the cords from them to convert my NES pads to work on the 7800.

     

    I'm no electronics expert but it looks to me like it would work if you cross the right wires....considering the SMS already works as a one button controller for the 7800...seems like button 2 just needs to make the connection. I'm not willing to cut up my SMS cord to find out since the NES controller is working for me :)

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    If all of the directions are not working it's probably missing the ground signal. Try tracing it back to the wire and see if there is a connection broken.

     

    Mitch

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    It's definitely all four directions, guess I'll go stare at it for another hour or so :x Thanks :)

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    I don't mind gloomy skies (Thief, anyone?) but I don't like hip-hop and its money-making, whore-banging, cap-busting, f-ck the police, f-ck anyone who looks at you, make as big a nuisance of yourself as you can because that's what makes you "real" culture.

     

    I have to admit, though, I do like GTA.

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    I love everything that you just said there. We need to start a gang. :twisted:

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    In my opinion, Zaxxon DEFINITELY qualifies

     

    I agree. We all know a boss when we see one. Karnov at the end of the first level of Bad Dudes, Ken-Oh in Shinobi....The dudes at the end of each level in Kung Fu Master,

     

    Now the voodoo fucks at the end of Jungle Hunt......I wouldn't call them a boss since all you do is jump over them....they're just part of the game. My point, it's pretty easy to know a boss character when you see one. And Zaxxon definitely does qualify....Isn't it obvious.. You may not have to beat him but it's still the big bad boss character and you know it. ;)

     

    BTW, what does Willy look like in the 2600 double dragon? I haven't suffered through the game to find out.

  18. Posted · Edited by rockfistus

    I didn't have to use a converter for my SMS pads :? They worked fine with the 7800 to begin with. Hmmm :ponder:

     

    Wait maybe I'm an idiot :ponder: Come to think of it I'm not sure if I have any 2 button games..... :mad: And with double dragon on the way please don't tell me I'm gonna have to modify my SMS pads.... Noooooo!

  20. Posted · Edited by rockfistus

    The resistors are actualliy in the board, they look like black strips, which is why you have to break the circuit at those points.

     

    Here is a picture:

     

    http://www.geocities.com/gjp57/nes-7800.htm

     

    You don't have to sand off the resistors, just break the circuits around them.

     

    I also failed the firs time, so I bought one from a fellow AA member. After seeing it in person, I was able to make a second one :)

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    Trust me when I say there was nothing there at all! I broke the rest of the circuits but there just wasn't anything at that top-left portion. :ponder:

     

    On the diagram you posted it's completely obvious as you can see the circuits leading up to that point where the resistors are at, unfortunately not on my pad. I'll dig it out and try to get a picture of it later. Just bought Mario Kart DS so I'm not real worried about it right now :twisted: hehe BTW, it is an original NES pad too, not an off-brand or anything.

  22. Posted

    I tried converting an NES pad and failed....

     

    I think the main reason is because in the directions I followed (The only ones I could find on the net) the diagram of the nes pad showed 2 resistors on the top-left of the NES pad that you are supposed to remove and replace with the Atari resistors. My pad didn't have any resistors up there......is this maybe a difference between UK and American pads?(I'm from the US, and I'm not even sure if the directions were UK or not, just a guess.)

     

    Anyway I went ahead and gave it a shot ignoring the parts about the resistors since they didn't exist and ended up with an unresponsive pad.

     

    Has anyone else run into this?

  24. Posted

    Forgive me if this has already been answered in that other multi-page thread, but I was overcome by laziness halfway into the third page and had to quit.  :D

     

    Has anyone attempted to use the "Flashback" joysticks with a regular 7800? I have to say that I find them to be a 100% improvement over those hated Prolines, and would love to use it with my 7800 when I get it out of storage.

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    Use a Sega Master system controller bro! I use it for all my Atari's and my C64. Don't know what I'd do without it. D-pad and 2-buttons, it's all you need.

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