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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I love this thread, very different. I’m going to share my joysticks for the ZX Spectrum but originally bought for my older brothers 48K.
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I’m not sure if these are even rare nowadays but they are certainly old!

Added this I had this one of the first mugs Nintendo did when they opened Club Nintendo for points
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Don't know if it's rare, but kinda odd because of its extremely specific usage,
I have that USB adapter lying around that you can use to connect the original Xbox 360 hard drive (the one that you could remove from the top of the console) to your PC, to move partitions, restore the Xbox emulator partition and so on. Had to use it back in the day when you had a hacked box, to upgrade the hdd. There have also been counterfeit 360 hdds from China that didn't have the Xbox partition, so you couldn't run any original Xbox games anymore unless you got that partition from either an original drive or online, and flashed it with said adapter.
 

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I do own the Gamecube component cable, which I ordered directly from Nintendo. I remember receiving it just loose in a simple bubble wrapped envelope. I paid maybe $40 CAD for it back then. I don't know if this qualifies as rare, but I also have a couple of NeGcon controllers for the original PS1. Awesome back then for racing games, such as Ridge Racer series or Wipeout. I never could make them work properly on my Raspberry Pi. I have the adapter, and I know it's possible. Just can't figure out how to modify properly the controller config file. :sad:
 

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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.
Factory defective disc is unfortunate – but to be the obscure Advance Game Port is not good; you do not miss much. I prefer the Game Boy Player.

This thing predates the Wii (manual says 2004) so it is not surprising that Nintendo found a way to block older Datel GameCube software. But I find it interesting that they were even able to press unlicensed discs that are accepted by an unmodified GameCube (and PlayStation 2 as well). [YouTube] How the Nintendo GameCube Security was defeated | MVG
I cannot quite remember… I think the Datel discs have an additional form of copy protection (bad sectors or something) and a GameCube/Wii will not make a copy with CleanRip. I have to try this.
Would be nice to use that thing on the Wii though because Game Boy Player is not an option for Wii. Not that this matters nowadays. Wii with the Homebrew Channel and mgba is way better than this thing – you just can't use your original cartridges.
 

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Factory defective disc is unfortunate – but to be the obscure Advance Game Port is not good; you do not miss much. I prefer the Game Boy Player.

This thing predates the Wii (manual says 2004) so it is not surprising that Nintendo found a way to block older Datel GameCube software. But I find it interesting that they were even able to press unlicensed discs that are accepted by an unmodified GameCube (and PlayStation 2 as well). [YouTube] How the Nintendo GameCube Security was defeated | MVG
I cannot quite remember… I think the Datel discs have an additional form of copy protection (bad sectors or something) and a GameCube/Wii will not make a copy with CleanRip. I have to try this.
Would be nice to use that thing on the Wii though because Game Boy Player is not an option for Wii. Not that this matters nowadays. Wii with the Homebrew Channel and mgba is way better than this thing – you just can't use your original cartridges.
You can try making a 1:1 .iso with DVD copying software on PC, then viewing the iso with Dolphin. Let me know what you see. GCN discs are just plain mini dvd-r's with a custom ISO format.
 

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Huh, I've got one of those 256MB 360 Memory Units and legitimately didn't know they used it to be rare or sought after. I've grabbed mine some years ago at a flea market for basically pocket change and never gave it much thought. That aside, it's definitely not as rare as other stuff posted here, but I have a Game Boy Camera!

Finally, I doubt it classifies as a "gaming accessory", but I also own an original Eon Ticket e-reader card for Pokèmon Ruby/Sapphire :D

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Ive got some weird ones, my favourite item is the Konami HyperBoy for the original Game boy that converted it to a table top device with joystick / light / screen magnifier and joystick! boxed complete, I also have a super pro fighter II with SNES and Megadrive cartridge adaptor and a US Hori SGB Controller boxed, all the ones I see are Jap.
 

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I don't think I have that much in the way of old accessories at this point. The SNES Super Advantage which frankly now that I think of it will not be making it through the next purge for an upcoming move.
 

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I owned a Play-Yan micro that I ordered from Japan in 2005. Found it again in 2014, and didn't realize how it had shot up in value and popularity. For those unfamiliar, the Play-Yan micro was a Japanese-only hardware-accelerated MP3/MP4 player for GBA hardware. It works on ALL GBA systems, and NDS systems with a GBA slot. Took full-size SD cards up to 2GB in size (Largest was 4 or 8GB around that time I think).




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I also owned an EZ-FLASH III development cart, the 256 Megabit (32MB) version. I originally ordered it from jandaman.com in 2005 as well. The cart was sweet, but it had a few limitations... Like having to drag and drop the games into this REALLY unstable software for the Cart flasher hardware, that liked to crash every 10 seconds just for looking at it. And sometimes the cart wouldn't flash properly. Mine eventually stopped being written to, so I traded it to a GBATemp member straight-across (knowing of the cart's issues, it was consensual) for an EZ-Flash IV cart (Mini SD version).

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I loved all the cool, weird, and useful 3rd-party GBA carts coming out for the GBA. I even had a color digital camera at one point!
 

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A weird non standard yet official Nintendo 64 controller... if It didn't get stolen.

The Nintendo Gamecube mic.

The mouse and keyboard for the Sega Dreamcast.

Several Dreamcast memory cards, yeah the lcd screen ones, one is even still in the wraping plastic thing so it must be more valuable.

Wii Fit.

Two "Classic" controllers for the Wii.

I could never get the cable to connect the GBA to the Gamecube and nowadays that thing is expensive as hell - -.
 

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