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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Nothing particularly rare, but I do have a GCN Gameboy player (complete), Sega Dreamcast with all the common accessories (VMUs, fishing rod controller), and a SNES mouse/pad. Also guitar hero controllers and DDR pads for a couple different systems.

I did own a Virtual Boy at one point, but my parents sold it off when I lost interest and moved on to other systems. Their loss, it's worth so much more now. :D
 

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Hmm Dreamcast keyboard and mouse are probably my favorite, lots of Game Genies or GameShark's for various systems. Lots of controller to PC adapters, in that category my favorite is a couple of 3 in 1 adapters... Xbox/PS2/GameCube to PC USB. On the PS2 I have a couple of flip top lids and Swap Magic and Network adapters and large (LOL) memory cards some of them like 64MB's!!!

Large external hard drives and MicroSD cards, are those considered accessories? Super useful for consoles :) If so also some ancient thumb drives that work on PS2 and Xbox (OG) with an adapter for modding :P

I own a few lightguns for system's but none of my CRT's (too new?) or LCD or HD TV's work with them :(
 
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Were there any games that actually used this, or is this a purely aftermarket thing for homebrew?

No games used this.The games that used some online thing used the wireless adapter I think?

Edit: Supposedly Mario Kart Super Circuit is compatible with the wireless adapter but I don't know if is just the Japan and Europe release or all of all.

Edit 2: I got the PS3 Camera but never used it.
 
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Let's try and do this in chronological order..........

70's

OG Atari Trakball that's still fully working, although I wouldn't recommend playing Halo with it!

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80's
My 8bit Joystick/Oric shelf.....
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90's

Sega Game Gear adaptor for Master System games, I think?

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Nice set of Japanese N64 game and accessory bundles.....

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Jewel in the crown, complete setup to play Densha De Go 64, includes Japanese train controller, headset for announcements and the game.....

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OG Xbox storage system, still sealed!....

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And a couple of very nice Hori Gamecube camouflage controllers....

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There's lots more but these are just the ones I can get to quickly :-)
 

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Gaming accessory? Amiga 1200T with blizzard 030 accelerator. Paid a couple of beers and Pringles (or similar). This was some years ago when Amigas were considered to be of no value. I mainly use my Amigas for gaming these days. Deluxe Galaga AGA is one of the best games ever. (I mostly play it on my Amiga CD32)
 
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I forgot I had this.
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The (in)famous wireless adapter and the one for gameboy micro no less!
I got it with my second gbm, the previous owner sold it to my along with it but I haven't been able to actually use it since I know nobody with another wireless adapter. I should probably buy one for my sp, but there are like 3 other compatible games outside of pokemon emerald and the kanto remakes.
 

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I had a n64 steering wheel bought for £1 back in 2001 from Poundland here in the UK. They were selling tons of 64, ps1 & Dreamcast keyboards at the time, wish I’d of picked up more but didn’t realise. Gave it to my sister when I thought I didn’t need to play 64 ever again lol, still ask here and there “do you still have that 64” n she’s not sure, no doubt the wheel has been trashed
 

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I don't have any so called rare accessories but, I do have a cib Pokémon Crystal, Pokémon Crystal and Silver not for resale cartridges and a distribution Pokémon Celebi cartridge. I'm on the hunt for a Pokémon gold not for resale cartridge (and for one day to update my NFR cartridges to the ones with the back labels on them).
 

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If you had your Gamecube chipped it was possible to use a copy. But good luck finding mini disks and the mini disk burner nowadays.
I cut the plastic and made it compatible with standard DVDs. You cant easy see any visual difference from outside.
 

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Super Wild Card DX for the Super Nintendo, still have it boxed away somewhere.

I've got an MGH, does both Super Nintendo and Genesis. But it only had 16 megabits of RAM so later I got a Smart Bros. which has, I think, 64 megabits. These days I wish I had a couple of Everdrives instead. Or for Genesis that new one that uses some sort of wizardry to get it to also run Sega CD games from SD cards.
 
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Also not sure if it's really "rare" since it was only available in this region, but i do own the special 3DS stand that came with the european version of Kid Icarus Uprising.

Was the european version different from the stand that came with (as far as I know) every copy of the game in every region (definitely got it with my US copy)?
 

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