Am I right in thinking.....

...that this is a joystick interface to plug saturn pads into a PC?

http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n10110259

 

think so although you will need M/B with ISA slot...
by the way geez that is expensive...

I got mine for like 1500-1700 yen few months back... :?

 

That's PCI, the pins are much smaller and the card is shorter than usual ISA cards. 5,000 yen equals what? $50?

 

5000 yen is 48.6121 USD


http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Always use this for converting money it's perfect :-D

 

hmm.. I thought that card came out before PCI???

 

The PCI version of that card sells for a lot of money. I pick up new ISA cards for about five hundred yen, but the PCI one sells rarely for less than Y6k. It's pretty obvious that the ISA one is useless, who among us still games on a system with an ISA slot? No one but freaks, that's who.

 

I guess this explains why I found "Sega Enterprises Ltd." in the list of PCI vendor ID's... that got me wondering.

 

Check this out, found info on it:

http://translate.google.com/transla...rch?q=if-sega2&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off

or if you prefer Japanese:

http://www.iodata.jp/products/game/ifsg2pci.htm

 

............

well if anyones interested, and you prob wont be, I can dig out from a huge box old cards an original nVidia NV1(I think thats it name) 3D graphic's card, basicaly the one that is totaly useless and only runs about 2 games. My friend got one when they were brand new, paid like £300 for it or something, came complete with Panzer Dargoon and Virtua Fighter Remix, the odd thing is, the games will ONLY run with this graphics card....also has ports on the back of the card for sega saturn pads. It came bundled with a saturn-esq pad, but it was cheaply made.........I'll try and get it off him and get some scans of it if anyones interested.....

Just found it on the net.....it was thw NV1, and it used quads insted of triangles to render the graphics.....not too much on this but will try and get the card and put it in my old PC, the cards PCI

 

Re: ............

That wasnt unusual back in the early days of gfx cards...

 

Tell me about it! Back in the day, my dad's bleeding edge Pentium 133 cost 5K! :smt042

 

Hmm, sure I'd like to see the gfx card... never had one come in our shop!

 

Behold, this is AntiPasta speaking!

I got one of those Edge 3D cards free from a classmate :smt033
It has the Saturn ports on a daughterboard that hooks into the Edge 3D. I have no games though.

 

antipasta is a wiseguy? lol

 

well the game(s) was virtua fighter remix if i remember right.

 

http://nice.kaze.com/news025.html

few pics down the page...

http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos_news/00/04/IMG0004549_1.jpg

 

Think the games that came with the cards were...

Panzer Dragoon
Virtua Fighter Remix
Nascar Racing

 

Odd, my card looks different - the chips have different prints on them and there is no daugtherboard *on* the card (I think that's the wavetable for the sound portion, this thing is also a sound card and modem)

 

I've got one of those lying around here somewhere (Legit, do you still want the thing??). It was a Diamond Edge 3D card, based on the nVidia NV1 chipset, and had a small daughterboard that attached to it with the Saturn ports. I couldn't really manage to get the thing working on my system - not that I expected it to. If anyone knows of any hacks or drivers to use the thing in Windows XP, let me know - running freeware shmups and MAME games with a Saturn controller would be awesome.

 

I got this NV1 card too...it came with Virtua Fighting and Panzer Dragoon.



PD