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by Hiker5 » Tue May 09, 2017 11:45 am
After doing some digging I was finally able to find a Japanese website that has official Sega VS link cables. The price was reasonable considering how outrageous they go for on eBay.
A few questions: Is it possible to make a homemade link cable? The only other option I've seen is pairing 2 coders cables together.
What games support the VS link cable officially and unofficially? Cheers!
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by krssn » Tue May 09, 2017 12:03 pm
Link?...
As for making one yourself, the connector is the biggest problem. You'd have to reroute all the pins. Twice, since you'll have to link two of them, obviously...
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by Xiden » Tue May 09, 2017 4:11 pm
Yes it is possible to make a homemade dreamcast vs cable. Someone on Assemblergames made one, of course the site is gone now...along with the instructions... :/
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by Xiden » Tue May 09, 2017 4:23 pm
Hiker5
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by Hiker5 » Tue May 09, 2017 5:34 pm
After the yen conversion I wound up paying 150 for a cable. Just waiting for the third party to ship it to the states ^^
I'm hoping to play some virtual on with this bad boy >:)
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by Xiden » Tue May 09, 2017 6:12 pm
Hiker5 wrote: After the yen conversion I wound up paying 150 for a cable. Just waiting for the third party to ship it to the states ^^
I'm hoping to play some virtual on with this bad boy >:)
did they have any more for sell ?
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by Hiker5 » Wed May 10, 2017 9:25 am
Xiden wrote: Hiker5 wrote: After the yen conversion I wound up paying 150 for a cable. Just waiting for the third party to ship it to the states ^^
I'm hoping to play some virtual on with this bad boy >:)
did they have any more for sell ?
I PM'ed you the info.
OGDCFAN99
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by OGDCFAN99 » Thu May 11, 2017 1:48 pm
So jealous
I'd be curious to see this site you speak of that has $150 vs link cables.
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by Raen » Fri May 12, 2017 7:43 pm
There's always the Dragoncast Vs. Link Cable. I have one I got for cheap years ago but haven't tested it yet...
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by gjb1985 » Sat May 20, 2017 6:15 am
and what games support it?
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