So I bought a Ps1 controller on a trading site called listia for about 100 credits which happens to be less than a cent or something, about 6 months ago, i bid on it because it was intriguing, the controller looked like that of an original release ps1 controller without analog sticks, but it had a phone line coming from it and an rj45 connector at the end, the back of it reads SCPH-1080 and its sony brand. what do you guys think?
awesome considering i like got it for basicly nothing but the question is what do i do with it? i thought the yaroze was the only dev kit? and didnt it use standardized cords?
No, not an early dev kit controller. Wrong plug and wrong model number. Just a hotel kiosk controller.
I don't know about getting the rest of the unit but this is what a quick search turned up. Taken from another forum:
The device you see pictured there doesn't play the game. It's simply an interface for the controller and the video signal. The system had a bank of game systems in a server room. When a customer purchased time, it would remotely connect to one of the systems and display it on the local TV. In short, the box there was one end of a really long controller extension cable and a really long video cable (when you break the system down to its simplest form). Without a connection to the systems in the server room that box is useless. http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4006418.html Again though, not a dev controller. Some unscrupulous types sometimes advertise them as such on eBay and the like because not a lot of people know what these are and if they are advertised as "dev controller" rather than "hotel version" they'll get more bids and sell for a higher price.
Damn you're right - the early PS controllers had DB connectors! I have been looking at N64/GC dev stuff recently and IIRC they used RJ connectors. doh! My mistake1 ^_^
Wow...never knew such a PS1 controller even exists! Thanks for the info...another day, another new info gained from reading assembler
