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 own a Gameboy player complete for the GCN, no idea if its rare
The boot disc is more rare than the player hardware, sadly.

I could never get the cable to connect the GBA to the Gamecube and nowadays that thing is expensive as hell - -.
I have 4 of those, I got them all at Goodwill stores.
 
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I kind of miss the old days of memory cards. It was always neat seeing all your game saves in little squares, memories of past victories and completions.
 

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Master System with 3D glasses, I think it's pretty rare and 3 3D games.. Space Harrier, Maze Runner and a gun shooter

I have that as well, with all the compatible games. I also have an Action Replay for the Master System which if not rare people are still asking high prices for online anyways.

I don't know if they're rare but I have the paddle controller and guitar hero grip for DS. Other than that I think the peripherals I own are pretty common.
 
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I had something like this and was pretty crappy:

I totally love this that I have:
I don't think its rare, but its the best controller I ever had in terms of looks, mine is still brand new almost non used, its the limited edition of halo Xbox360 controller, it has the rotating D-pad to make it a cross or a circle, but sadly the clear plastic is low quality, I bought it brand new from a store and it was already cracking inside :(...
 
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I have a visual memory unit for the Dreamcast, I just added two new batteries and after a few resets it still works and still holds time and calendar settings. Also checked the saves and found only six (Dead or Alive 2, Macross M3, Phantasy Star Online, Sonic Adventure and Evolution 2), last played game was Phantasy Star Online on 11/28/02.
 

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I jumped the gun. I saw CAANOO on the device in your photo, and thought you found it, so I just decided to troll. :|
I only have the box now :-( ... It was a very nice system. I wish I could buy it again but I couldn't find it anywhere online.

I don't know why I didn't call the police hehe .... Maybe it wasn't too expensive to create drama and destroy someones life.
 

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