The present is horrible, the future looks bleak. Let's go back to the past
We take a look at the Pioneer LaserActive. A LaserDisc player that included the ability to add modules for the Sega Megadrive and NEC PC Engine. We take a look at both modules, a few games and the ultra rare 3D goggles. Continue reading “Pioneer LaserActive giant look”
We continue our look at building a joystick, after breaking down how they work in the last part now we take a look at the initial design.
We take a look at the new piece of hardware that claims to improve how you play retro game consoles on new HDTVs.
We don’t have any joysticks for our RX-78 computers, we could build an adaptor to use another style of controller but what about if we just build one from scratch?
We take a look at Epoch’s third generation, Japan only consoles.
The Bandai RX-78 uses a proprietary joystick port with an 8 pin din. This din should be a 2-3-3 layout with all pins symmetrical. It also makes use of two ground connections, Ground 1 provides Fire, Left and Up when connected to the relevant pins and Ground 2 provides Right and Down.
Port as seen when looking at the machine
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Pin | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground 2 | |
| 2 | Left / Right | |
| 3 | NC | |
| 4 | NC | |
| 5 | NC | |
| 6 | Up / Down | |
| 7 | Ground 1 | |
| 8 | Fire |
We received the Bandai RX-78 Personal Computer in an unboxing, unfortunately there were no joysticks and it has a proprietary joystick port. So what we need to do is work out how the joysticks work so we can connect a different joystick to is (maybe an Atari or Sega one).
The second part of our giant Japanese delivery unboxing.
Continue reading “Japanese unboxing part 2: Laserdiscs and Gundam”
The first of 3 unboxing videos featuring the giant delivery we received from Japan.
Continue reading “Japanese unboxing part 1: Famicom, Epoch, Xavix and Bandai”
We open up the Bandai RX-78 Personal Computer that we received in an earlier video.
Continue reading “Lets look inside the Bandai RX-78 Personal Computer”