Adaptec GameBridge?-- usb console to pc monitor video

[MameMaster!]

.....has anyone tried this gadget out yet? It seems like a great gadget for connecting consoles to an arcade cab easily as it will work with all of 'em...and it's about the size of a credit card!

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=AVC-1410

Here are the specs---

Play Games in Real Time
With GameBridge there is no lag time. Click the controller and the fast response gets you out of the tightest spots with the enhanced graphical resolution of your computer monitor.

Record Your Best Moves and Highest Scores
Take snapshots of high scores or levels or record videos of great maneuvers, and save them to your hard disk or external drives, CDs, or DVDs.

Share Your Favorite Moments
Prove your prowess by emailing snapshots and recordings to friends, posting them on the Web, and replaying them any time.

Turn Your Computer Into a TV
GameBridge TV also provides a very affordable way to add an extra TV or to gain the benefits of a Personal Video Recorder (PVR). Schedule recordings. Take snapshots of any scene. The integrated remote control lets you select from up to 125 channels. Even preview a channel before you choose it.

Your Complete Gaming and TV Solution
GameBridge TV includes everything you need, even cables and the remote. It all fits easily into the included carrying case, so you can easily take GameBridge TV anywhere you take your computer.

Convert Home Videos to VCD/DVD
Convert your VHS videos and create long lasting VCD/DVD archives of your precious moments.

[freddykreuger666]

so this lets u connect any games console to ur pc right + lets u watch tv
cos this good find
thanks for sharing

[horseboy]

I don't think that there is any way that this thing could help you map the game controls to your arcade controls. This simply lets you view the game on the monitor. It's cool, but you would still have to figure a way to switch your controls between consoles and your pc.

[MameMaster!]

personally I use the XArcade PCB and Adapters to use my cabs arcade controls ...so for me this would work.

But as you figured out...this will only play the video and have no effect over your controls....

[rohan]

That PVR on computer option could be very useful for getting some mame artwork off of some console arcade recreations.  I know this sounds a little over the top, but this could be used to record the spaceship on the PS2 midway treasures game that has Kozmik Kroozr's spaceship more or less accurately implemented in 2D.  If we could record it's behavior, maybe Aaron could write artwork support for an animated *.gif or something similar...Just brainstormin' here, but it could work.
I know there are at least a few others that would be useful as well.

[MameMaster!]

That PVR on computer option could be very useful for getting some mame artwork off of some console arcade recreations.  I know this sounds a little over the top, but this could be used to record the spaceship on the PS2 midway treasures game that has Kozmik Kroozr's spaceship more or less accurately implemented in 2D.  If we could record it's behavior, maybe Aaron could write artwork support for an animated *.gif or something similar...Just brainstormin' here, but it could work.
I know there are at least a few others that would be useful as well.

wow...I never even considered that....that's a cool idea.

[rohan]

Well if you get a GameBridge, I'll let you borrow the pertinent games.

[Lilwolf]

this might be perfect for me.  I used to use my computer / screen as a TV using sagetv + creativelabs digital vcr.  But I recently moved to a DirectTV+DVR but still wanted to use my computers monitor as a TV (since its bigger then the rest of my TV's). 

Well, it sucks when trying to use a SageTV since there is a 3 - 5 second delay between live and what your watching.  Not a big deal normally, until you want to press a menu button on the remote/dvr and it doesn't show up on your screen for 5 seconds... and when trying to stop fastforwarding through a commercial, youhave to rewind a few seconds.

I was going to go with another solution (huppaugge 150mce + gotv on no harddrive record mode (forgot the name).  But that was still a 1/2 - second delay.    This looks faster then that.  And almost the same price.

kinda cool

[Hiub1]

Product pages like that one kind of piss me off. There is no picture where it shows you the connectors, and the "technical" section is just the same crap they wrote in the main page stuck in a table... The actual box itself looks like a decent product, but I want to know what kind of inputs it has. I am guessing that it should use the component out for modern consoles like the PS2 which can do 1080i?