http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...p;item=8162642207&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT Won it for $2. Never really saw this before. Anyone has a prior experience?
It's an Xband... If you played games in 1994 you had to have seen/heard of it. They were everywhere, when they were first released I remember going to a fair where Xband randomly had a promotional booth.
I've only had a few experiences with them, AFAIK, only a handful of games support it. I can only remember playing SNES Mortal Kombat II.
yeah, the famous xband. A pretty cool hardware on the collection side (though it's not really rare, just cool). their prices on ebay are pathetcily low, i remember an auction where 3 sealed xbands where sold for 5.99 us with only one bid! never used it and don't know wich game uses it either. Anyone could do a list or something? and hey, im pretty sure you can't but i can still ask: can you still use it? how does it works? with servers or something?
I guess it should make use of a server or something. I only bought it to complete the gadgets on my Genesis with 32X and front loading cd.
It's a modem, you call people you want to play or call a public forum to find new people. I've never seen it done but that's the principle. Only used them instore (2 kiosks dialed up to eachother) I believe it also costed money so theres little to no chance that you can use the device.
A-ha! But have you people seen the Atari 2600 Modem? I shit you not. http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/9260/gameline.html I found this through classicgaming some years ago.
Speaking of NES, a company came out with a cartridge which is like a 32x, where it adds more hardware features to the console. I remember reading about it in a mag dating back to 1991. I don't know if it was ever released.
By chance do you remember the name Aladdin Deck Enhancer? That was released in 1991 and didn't actually enhance anything, all it did was give Codemasters/Camerica publicity and let them produce cartridges cheaper.
Oh, an acoustic coupler. Retro chic! And on a slightly related topic, does anyone have any SSTV equipment for old computers? SSTV (slow-scan TV) allowed you to send pictures (pretty slowly) through shortwave radio. I have some magazines from the mid-80s which seemed to talk about them a lot, and they often used stuff like Spectrums and BBC Micros for sending/receiving them.
Those pieces of shit don't work on a toploader nes. Tried it and they didn't work so I sold my aladdin deck enhancer.
Aladdins and the games for them are damn rare! Kinda like that thing for Atari 2600 umm I forget its name
Retro: I think you mean the Starpath Supercharger? Never heard of that, but I did find a most interesting read here.
