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Title: Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: mahuti 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?

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: 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.

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: 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

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: mahuti 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?

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: Nervous 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...

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: Hoe 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)

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: jakejake28 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?

Title: Re:Can you connect an iPac to consoles?
Post by: mahuti 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.