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Title: what did I just buy? Battlestation II [update: posted for sale/trade]
Post by: sharpfork on May 26, 2012, 12:33:02 pm

I made my first outing looking for retro consoles and picked up a BattleStation II which appears to be new in the box with all the cables.  My first inclination is to take it apart and see what makes it tick.
Is this an item that should be left complete or would it be cool to mod the thing to work on newer consoles too?

I have a box, not the bag: http://www.smstributes.co.uk/gethwinfo.asp?hardwareid=17 (http://www.smstributes.co.uk/gethwinfo.asp?hardwareid=17)

UPDATE: added gallery and scanned users manual
http://imgur.com/a/hk9U6#0 (http://imgur.com/a/hk9U6#0)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19144386/BattlestationII_Instruction_Manual.pdf (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19144386/BattlestationII_Instruction_Manual.pdf)

UPDATE II: now posted for sale or trade- http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120504.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120504.0)

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: Drnick on May 26, 2012, 05:41:26 pm

Nice find :) I would have to see what makes it tick.

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: amendonz on May 26, 2012, 05:54:34 pm

New in box would be worth good cash. Quite sort after in australia I believe.

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: amendonz on May 26, 2012, 06:01:09 pm

Quote

the first
one i was gonna bid, come to find
it went for 215 , just the unit alone
no cables etc or bag if i can
remember correctly, then last
week i won my one which started
at 180 i was the only bidder. came
with bag but two cables for
snes... and of course this one. i
think mine was the
cheapest.180+25 postage. this
one went for 173+33 post. but
ofcourse it came with all
connections so yer

From a aussie site. Aus$ which is pretty close to $us I think

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: danny_galaga on May 27, 2012, 08:39:49 am

Quote from: amendonz on May 26, 2012, 05:54:34 pm

New in box would be worth good cash. Quite sort after in australia I believe.

sought

Damn cool piece of kit though, love to have one for the mega drive (",)

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: Well Fed Games on May 27, 2012, 10:13:12 am

Arcade stick compatible with the old consoles= win.

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: Malenko on May 27, 2012, 10:24:14 am

Quote from: pinballjim on May 26, 2012, 05:53:54 pm

Looks like a slab of awesome to me

I'm with Chad on this one.

Title: Re: what did I just buy? Battlestation II
Post by: sharpfork on May 27, 2012, 03:44:45 pm

I put together an album of everything that was in the box: http://imgur.com/a/hk9U6 (http://imgur.com/a/hk9U6)
I pulled a couple of pics from this thread where a guy put app joysticks in one.

I made a PDF of the manual too: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19144386/BattlestationII_Instruction_Manual.pdf (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/19144386/BattlestationII_Instruction_Manual.pdf)

I'm thinking I'm going to put it up for trade or maybe sale.  I already have the ability to play most of the consoles I do actually play with arcade controls on my cabinets through emulation and that is good enough for me.  There is someone out there who will appreciate this thing much more than I will.