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Author Topic: Can you connect an iPac to consoles?  (Read 1399 times)

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Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« on: June 06, 2003, 10:39:18 am »
Is there an adapter for the ipac to connect to various consoles? USB to Playstation or Xbox? Or is there some other encoder that can connect to various systems?
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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2003, 11:08:48 am »
The I-Pac works by using joystick or button signals to emulate a coorenspoding keystroke. So unless your console could utilize a keyboard for control (and I'm sure it can't) your out of luck.

Check around this site, there are a number of people that have hacked (modified) control pad innards to work with real controls.
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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2003, 01:31:41 pm »
Quote from: steve_pss on June 06, 2003, 11:08:48 am
The I-Pac works by using joystick or button signals to emulate a coorenspoding keystroke. So unless your console could utilize a keyboard for control (and I'm sure it can't) your out of luck.

Check around this site, there are a number of people that have hacked (modified) control pad innards to work with real controls.

One word: Dreamcast ;D

There is a device that allows you to input PS/2 into your DC ;D

It is cheap too! Whats the dead system now? ;D
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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2003, 02:01:25 pm »
I seem to recall Playstation 2 having a usb port. Anyone with experience doing that?

Also, I heard that the xarcade had some sort of proprietary encoder that could handle output to multi systems.

Has anyone had experience with that?

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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2003, 08:51:58 pm »

I know that the IPac won't work witn an XBox.  Bummer.
Hafta hack an XBox controller...
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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2003, 12:59:47 am »
IPacs output scan codes... right?
You'd need to build a converter. You may be able to get away with a few 74 logic chips to rencode the serial pins. I'm not too sure on the actual communications of modern console controller ports (I miss the days of nes/snes using a 4021 for controler encoding)
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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2003, 12:07:51 pm »
Quote from: anthony691 on June 06, 2003, 01:31:41 pm
Quote from: steve_pss on June 06, 2003, 11:08:48 am
The I-Pac works by using joystick or button signals to emulate a coorenspoding keystroke. So unless your console could utilize a keyboard for control (and I'm sure it can't) your out of luck.
Check around this site, there are a number of people that have hacked (modified) control pad innards to work with real controls.

One word: Dreamcast ;D
There is a device that allows you to input PS/2 into your DC ;D
It is cheap too! Whats the dead system now? ;D

this device would allow an i-pac to be connected? how many simultaneous players. i have a 4-player ipac. could i get 2 players running off this deviece?
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Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
« Reply #7 on: June 08, 2003, 01:41:00 pm »
BTW the post with the link to the XArcade encoder is exactly what I'm talking about. I couldn't find a direct link to that anywhere on their site.

That' pretty much solves my dillemma.
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