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Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« on: July 08, 2003, 02:51:14 pm »
London Drugs has Gravis Gamepad Pros on sale for $9.99 starting today.  :o

Unknown if they are USB or gameport.  ???
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2003, 02:55:48 pm »
Those damn Canadians and their flapping heads always looking for a deal. Eh, hosers?  :D

(j/k j/k j/k just messing with yall)
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2003, 03:08:00 pm »
Quote from: AlanS17 on July 08, 2003, 02:55:48 pm
Those damn Canadians and their flapping heads always looking for a deal. Eh, hosers?  :D

(j/k j/k j/k just messing with yall)

Take Off, Eh?!   ;)  ::)
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2003, 06:40:14 pm »
They are the 10 Button USB Model.   Watch out though.  On one of mine the heat seal on the package was so hot that the black tie around the  cable was actually melted into the cable.  Was replaced right away by LD.


Good deal Ehhh!

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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2003, 07:03:23 pm »
Yeap, they're USB, flew down there on break and bought 2...   ;D

Even comes with 2 disney games to keep my kids outta my hair for a bit...   ;)
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2003, 10:06:03 pm »
Those are bad pads to hack. The directionals ghost once you hack them. I wasted several of them before I figured that out.

That isn't just my experience either. I read somewhere (this board maybe, a long time ago), that someone apparently emailed them about it, and it is a known issue with those pads. They work fine as pads, but once you wire up those directionals with wires and microswitches they get wacky on you.
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2003, 10:13:22 pm »
Quote from: paigeoliver on July 09, 2003, 10:06:03 pm
Those are bad pads to hack. The directionals ghost once you hack them. I wasted several of them before I figured that out.

That isn't just my experience either. I read somewhere (this board maybe, a long time ago), that someone apparently emailed them about it, and it is a known issue with those pads. They work fine as pads, but once you wire up those directionals with wires and microswitches they get wacky on you.


Same thing happened to me when I tried to hack one of these about a year ago.  I just thought I messed something up, but after going over the wiring again & again, I couldn't get rid of the goofy directionals...  
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2003, 12:21:04 am »
Hmm...
Perhaps this has been fixed.
I have one hacked to one of my mame sticks right now & haven't experienced any problems yet.
I was actually planning on building another stick with my spare GPP.
I guess time will tell.
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Re:Attn Canadians: Potential Pad Hack Victim
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2003, 01:03:29 am »
Anyone else tried to hack their recent purchase yet? :-)

Just wondering if I should go and buy 1 for my bartop.. (just bought an all in one MB for $5.99 on eBay, has 4 USB, but no keyboard/mouse..perfect for my purposes!:-)



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