Rare gaming accessories you own. Good and bad ones.

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Many of us have some rare and hard to come by games in collections, or at least things we hope to one day stumble across a seller clueless about the cost of, but this is not about that. This is about accessories for gaming devices instead.

Share some of your rare, hard to come by or rather overlooked gaming accessories. If you happen to have a first gen Steel Battalion controller, or perhaps some original gamecube component cables, the feel free to share but we are also very much after the weird, wonderful and things most people probably don't know exist, and ones some might say should never have existed. They need not be in any way official or sanctioned either, however make it something that is at least theoretically useful for gaming rather than a stuffed toy shaped like a game character (we can have that thread later).

Pictured above is an xbox 360 memory card. 256 megabytes in this case, which means it came bundled with the arcade bundle (one with no hard drive), and was not even available at retail so retail plebs would have to suffer 64 megabytes instead (there was eventually a 512 meg version, some even with games preloaded). Prior to Microsoft graciously giving people the option to have USB memory for their saves, profiles and transfer thereof we had memory cards for it -- the original xbox 360 models might not have had HDMI support but they did have USB, even if an unbranded 1 gig would have set you back over £40 at the time. The 360 slim models don't however even have the port for them, and while Datel made a transfer kit to our knowledge there is no official device for it (we guess that is the original "Fortunately we have a device for that, it is called xbox 360").
 
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A Gameboy Player boot disc.
e-Reader+
Sealed box of Rockman Zero 3 e-card packs
Telefang antenna
A couple of 2008 revision GameCube controllers
Official N64 cleaning kit
 
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A stupid mover stole my caanoo and a 3ds game. I only have the box now, I can't find it or buy it again :-(.
 

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A stupid mover stole my caanoo and a 3ds game. I only have the box now, I can't find it or buy it again :-(.
They stole something rare and likely valuable and got away with it. I'd hardly call that stupid.

They certainly outsmarted you.
 

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Got Gamecube Component Cables dirt cheap at a local gamestore back in 2014. Whoever did the pricing mislabeled them as AV cables so I only paid $10 instead of $200/300. The guy working the register had a feeling they were rare too and he hated that he had to sell them at that price, lucky for me didn't bother to look up exactly how valuable they were. They were the crown jewel of my Gamecube setup until I got the Carby this summer. I still use the component cables for playing Gameboy advance in 240p on my crt though.
 

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Datel Advance Game Port. Plugs into the second memory card slot and plays GBA games on the GameCube. As far as I know it loads the ROM from the cartridge at least partially to the GC-RAM and plays it with a software emulator. Loads and saves from/to cartridge as well. Sadly I do not know of a way to use this for dumping GBA ROMs with homebrew software. Would be a cool thing.
The emulator is not very good and the cheat support is minimal.
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Tri-Star64 for (Super-)Famicom games on N64. Does not work on my PAL N64 – or maybe broken. I just have it because it is an obscure thing to have in my "little private museum".
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They stole something rare and likely valuable and got away with it. I'd hardly call that stupid.
I didn't see them steal anything
They stole something rare and likely valuable and got away with it. I'd hardly call that stupid.

They certainly outsmarted you.
Well my eyes only moves in one direction hehe I am not a lizard hehe.

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Is this rare? Hehe
 

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If we are counting the flash carty stuff I have ye olde GB Bridge that worked with a Flash2Advance. While I'm pretty sure the bridge works fine still I'm unsure on the F2A card. I cant seem to get it to write anything too it with the USB cable and I no longer have a PC with a parallel port to try the older cable. I also have the max drive pro thingy for GC from datel.
 
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(pure white and deadly) this card destroyed this 3ds system.

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These are rare too annnnnd one of them is stolen .
 

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I also have a couple of those stupid bongo controllers for the GC, do those count? While not rare I think my two best are my two wavebird controllers.

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I own an amiga external hard drive :) a red one,hope its still there
Now if you had a non pirated Amiga game that would be a rarity indeed
 

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I had a dreamcast ps1/keyboard adapter from some generic company, wish they had something like that for the gamecube (mainly for keyboard) but this adapter was good for the bleem games I guess. Also had a super pad 64 pro... that thing looked weirder than the official n64 controller lol
 

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Some interesting things thus far. Had no idea about that Rez vibrator -- I had one of those cushions that taps off the sound port back when but I had no idea anything vaguely official existed outside of arcades.

I suppose it's not super rare, but I do have a GBA e-reader and stacks of Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire e-reader cards for the Battle Tower trainers and berries.
It was not released in Europe and I don't think I have ever seen one in Europe (don't think Nintendo's Switch event which had a museum of loads of things even had one).

Keyboard and mouse for the Dreamcast.

Quake3 Arena and Soldier of Fortune on a big screen, good ol' days.
Is keyboard a rarely seen thing for the Dreamcast? There was this little game called Phantasy Star online and that drove sales of that one massively. I did actually find a DC keyboard box the other week actually.

I still have the cable accessory used to transfer saves from a USB stick to an OG Xbox console.
I contemplated fishing mine out for the opening post but I figured anybody that hacked their xbox (which around here would be most that owned one) would probably be familiar with the concept.

Now if you had a non pirated Amiga game that would be a rarity indeed
Do Amiga power and such demo discs count?
 
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Is keyboard a rarely seen thing for the Dreamcast? There was this little game called Phantasy Star online and that drove sales of that one massively. I did actually find a DC keyboard box the other week actually.

Dang, it was popular ? Alright, time to redeem myself.

Does this vintage overpriced toy count ?

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Boy, I was so happy to get it, I played with a few hours, then inserted new batteries upside down and killed it the very first day. Considering we were dire at this time and that my parents really wanted to please me, I never felt more guilty and ashamed than this day...

Well, everybody has to eat his "pain noir".
 
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Datel Advance Game Port. Plugs into the second memory card slot and plays GBA games on the GameCube. As far as I know it loads the ROM from the cartridge at least partially to the GC-RAM and plays it with a software emulator. Loads and saves from/to cartridge as well. Sadly I do not know of a way to use this for dumping GBA ROMs with homebrew software. Would be a cool thing.
The emulator is not very good and the cheat support is minimal.
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I used to have one of these, but the disc was factory faulty (had a hairline crack inside of it), and I could never find a replacement anywhere. Also, the disc is a hacked-together thing, and isn't even a standard GCN iso, so it cannot be run on Wii, which I think is bullocks.
 
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