I noticed that a card on a broken PC-98 I have said in very small letters in the bottom right: "I.O data IF - SEGA/98" That then jogged my memory and I recognised the two ports on it were Saturn controller ports. I took it out and there is writing on the board saying: IF-SSPAD/98 (copyright sign) I-O data device, INC Its a very sparse board with just two chips and two capacators of some sort. Its C-bus type board. Am I right in thinking its just an adapter for Saturn pads? Pics:
I think its an old Sega PC adapter, released so that those using the Sega PC software (panzer dragoon, sonic R etc) could use saturn pads. I might be wrong.
Exactly what it is, nothing else. It is a part of the IF-SEGA cards made by IO-DATA: some of them are ISA cards, others are PCI cards and one is PC98 card (the one you have). They came with a demo disc of sega saturn converted to pc games and allow you to use your sega saturn pads. They also made a gun interface card that allows you to use the virtua gun on your PC.
Well, not particularly exciting then but cool none the less. Thing was this card seemed to be forcing the PC-98 to keep on ejecting and inserting the CD-drive. Now I've removed this card it doesn't do it anymore...
No, it was a 2 part thing, i used to have one, there was the diamond edge gfx card, which could be used with some of the sega-pc games, and the adaptor like what you have to connect saturn pads up to the PC, im pretty sure i still have mine so will dig them out to compare
