Conceptual Thinking: Post your ideas here.

[typamc95]

Post your concepts you can't use here, simple,no?

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PocketCade

Mame,in the palm of your hand!

Componets:

Old PocketPC
1Gb Of space
2.5" Intec
USB Contoller
USB Storage

[totokan]

yeah. hate to break this to you, but;
1) MAME requires way to much power for a PPC
2) PPC's don't have powered USB, which you would need for a controller.

[Turbo Tax 1.0]

what about a GP2X

[totokan]

Can you guys drop that already? The gp2x is not powerful enough to emulate something stronger than it.

[Triton]

wtf r u talkin bout? gp2x has a good MAME emulator, no brand spankin new roms work but a crapload of the older (cps1 and whatever)stuff plus there is gngeo and that works awesome!

[Skyone]

Totokan, the gp2x can now handle 3d graphics, I think it can handle Pac-Man and Dig-Dug.

[Triton]

its true! i was watchin the new demo video of payback (one of the first commercial games) and i would say its on par with n64 level graphics poly count wise mebe a bit better and with MUCH better texturing and rendering and particles and whatnot (neat effects and stuff) you can find a link to the video on gp32x.com in the forum or mebe on frontpage

[totokan]

Meh. All my anti-GP2x posts are jelousy

[Triton]

lol victory is ours!

[HomicidalBarber]

shouldnt ideas not be shot down in the "conceptual ideas thread". maybe improved upon but no shot down.

[usbcd36]

I did have one idea I was discussing with Klefmung/mangadood a few days ago, but I won't post it (even though it would work here) because I'd like to keep some of the techniques involved secret.

However…

I know it's been done before, but I was thinking about making an "emergency cable kit" out of Cat5 patches and some adapters. Notable mentions:

•dual-XLR
•single or dual stereo phone (y'know, phone plugs are 1/4" and used for low-end mics and speakers…)
•dual or quad mono phone
•single mono phone w/2 Cat5 (for speakers, though I won't go as far as to suggest Speakons…)
•FireWire (for ?6')
•USB (there ARE adapters that send USB through Cat5, which is what I would use)
•phono (4 could be used, but 2 would be better, since there could be more wires carrying the signal)
•console controller extensions
•single or dual 1/8" stereo miniplug (headphone extension cable)
•dual or quad 1/8" mono miniplug
•S-Video

Then the ones that I've seen:

•VGA
•crossover cable
•modem cable
•null modem cable
•Cisco cable
•serial cable

…and so on.

I think it would also be beneficial to have adapters that work with each other. For example, if you plugged the 1/8" stereo miniplug into the RCA/phono adapter, they'd connect correctly so you could hook up RCA to one end and 1/8" stereo miniplugs to the other.

Examples:

•1/8" stereo miniplugs to phono
•1/8" mono miniplugs to phono
•1/4" stereo miniplugs to phono
•1/4" mono miniplugs to phono

•S-video to phono (dual S-video input, Y/C output through miniplugs)

•1/8" stereo miniplugs to 1/4" stereo miniplugs
•1/8" stereo miniplugs to 1/4" mono miniplugs
•1/8" stereo miniplugs to 1/8" mono miniplugs

•1/4" stereo miniplugs to 1/4" mono miniplugs

Obviously, it takes more than just matching up pins to adapt S-video to VGA (or *gasp* ethernet), so those should probably not be attempted. As for XLR to anything else, I would say no, mainly because you lose the benefits of a balanced cable. It could be done, but it'd be best to use a matching transformer on the other end, THEN adapt to something else.

As for the adapters themselves, I think they should all have one male plug and one female jack for the second signal that could go through the cable (since two short cables might not necessarily reach both places). I know this would involve carrying around more cables, but that's not too bad if you have things coming from and going to the same places. Otherwise, it'd be better to just make more adapters (though this also means you'd need more Cat5 cables).

It may appear as though I've thought most of this out, but the whole thing is so open-ended. There are literally BILLIONS of variations you could make on this, but I think that kits should probably be designed by the people who will use them, not me.

Hmm…

Do any of you think I could make money selling these?

[atari2600a]

I have an idea for a Wiip involving a wireless infared headband. Think about it, it makes sense...

[Sir Games-A-Lot]

yeah. hate to break this to you, but;
1) MAME requires way to much power for a PPC

My x50v can run @ 624Mhz and can use a good deal of it's ram if you use solid state memory for storing files instead of the ram ala Palm pilot.

2) PPC's don't have powered USB, which you would need for a controller.

Couldn't you just jury rig something with a 7805 regulator and some batteries or am I talking out the wrong end of my anatomy?

[teraflop122]

Couldn't you just jury rig something with a 7805 regulator and some batteries or am I talking out the wrong end of my anatomy?

Most handheld electronics do not have the USB host chipset, so they can only act as a USB peripheral connected to some other thing (such as a PC or laptop).

[Nonsense Man]

its true! i was watchin the new demo video of payback (one of the first commercial games) and i would say its on par with n64 level graphics poly count wise mebe a bit better and with MUCH better texturing and rendering and particles and whatnot (neat effects and stuff) you can find a link to the video on gp32x.com in the forum or mebe on frontpage

I cant find the vido can you tell me where to look???