Planet Virtual Boy

HP Lovethrash wrote:
Well my first X'Eye came without anything, just a 5v power adapter (to quote Dana Carvey on SNL, "WROOONG!!"). So I tracked down a proper adapter and the turbo 6-button official controller. I have to say, Sega made a killer D-pad.

Did they make TLV on Sega CD?

I'll look up reviews of each version and get whichever seems better. Haven't played my SNES in months, since my VB controller mod failed to work right heh. But I will definitely play it, I regret not buying it at my last game store trip. Wasn't TLV the last game made for the SNES?

I actually found a better deal on a 2nd X'eye that was modded for S-video output via a newly installed CXA1645 chip (or whatever the better chip on Genesis boards was). I plan to open it up and give my first one the full treatment once I see exactly how they did the mod.

If I have trouble, I'm gonna email this guy who I bother with my tech problems sometimes ;)

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HP Lovethrash wrote:
Well my first X'Eye came without anything, just a 5v power adapter (to quote Dana Carvey on SNL, "WROOONG!!"). So I tracked down a proper adapter and the turbo 6-button official controller. I have to say, Sega made a killer D-pad.

My experience is limited to the Genesis 3-button, the Game Gear, and the Dreamcast, plus a few minutes of "Nights" on the Saturn "3D Controller" in Toys'r'us many moons ago, but I've never truly enjoyed using a Sega controller. The d-pads are always stiff and imprecise. The buttons are mushy and poorly laid out. I just don't care for the lot. The only things I like (about the Genesis ones, anyway) are the use of standard d-sub connectors, and their devotion to proper backward-compatibility.

---The Dreamcast controllers looks bad, and feels odd to hold, but it plays smoothly. My Genesis 6 button has a great D-pad, I wonder if someone just broke it in really well? My Saturn (version 1?) controller has the softest feeling D-pad ever! You could blow on it and the pad would activate. Sometimes it's annoying to have such a hair trigger feel, but it saves on thumb fatigue (or it would if I ever played Saturn haha).

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Did they make TLV on Sega CD?

AFAIK, no. If anything, they would have released LV2 (specifically "Norse by Norsewest: The Vikings Return") on SegaCD, since it was much larger for reasons I've mentioned, but they seem to have skipped straight to the Saturn for that one.

Another Blizzard game I would recommend based on the SNES version is "Blackthorne" (mechanics similar to the original "Prince of Persia" and "Oddworld" games, and great graphics), but it seems to be 32X-only in the Sega world.

---Ahh yes, I didn't realize they made a sequel but the Saturn one does look really fun too. I just saw that Blackthorne game in my friend's collection the other day, it looks fun but seems to be rather pricey...it may have to wait until I buy Fishbone first.

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I'll look up reviews of each version and get whichever seems better. Haven't played my SNES in months, since my VB controller mod failed to work right heh. But I will definitely play it, I regret not buying it at my last game store trip. Wasn't TLV the last game made for the SNES?

The consensus online seems to be that it was 1998's "Frogger" (in the U.S.).

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I actually found a better deal on a 2nd X'eye that was modded for S-video output via a newly installed CXA1645 chip (or whatever the better chip on Genesis boards was). I plan to open it up and give my first one the full treatment once I see exactly how they did the mod.

The chips (or at least Chinese clones thereof) are only $3 shipped on eBay, and it seems like a pretty straightforward mod. Here's some info about using one on a Genesis III that should help, if you can't find anything x'eye-specific (I found reference to a detailed build thread on nfggames.com, but not the thread itself).

---funny, I think I know what reference you're talking about. I was annoyed when that person didn't post a link -.- ...either way, I think that GamesSX one is what I used. I think my problem is that the S video cable I repurposed from some old VGA to S adapter has only 3 wires inside- I multimeter'd all of them and see that 2 are for luma/chroma, and the last one goes to the grounding around the S video plug. However, it doesn't seem that the bottom 2 pins (which I thought were Y/C grounds) have a wire inside the cable O_o. Maybe that explains it.

Evidently the X'eye's PCB is set up to do S-video, it just has empty pads that you need to solder the jack to. Then you cut a hole in the case for the plug to rest in (which is already scored, so you know exactly where to do it)

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If I have trouble, I'm gonna email this guy who I bother with my tech problems sometimes ;)

I'm sure that guy isn't bothered at all by your emails