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NITIN Tektite                   Since: 03-17-06 From: Bangalore, India Last post: 6349 days Last view: 6306 days |
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| There are some times when you walk out of a store
wondering "Now that was an excellent deal" My experience:- I bought a DVD drive for Rs 1000 ($20) I bought a gamepad for Rs 300 ($6) Both work absolutely fine I love cheap hardware |
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neotransotaku Sledge Brother Liberated from school...until MLK day    Since: 11-17-05 From: In Hearst Field Annex... Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6306 days |
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| What country uses Rs? | |||
drjayphd Torosu OW! BURNY!  Since: 11-18-05 From: CT Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| (points at /\/ ! + ! /\/'s info)
India, specifically. Stands for rupees yes? |
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NITIN Tektite Since: 03-17-06 From: Bangalore, India Last post: 6349 days Last view: 6306 days |
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C`aos Porcupo  Since: 03-02-06 From: AB, Canada Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| My super-cheapo no-name INTERNET KEYBOARD I got for 10 bucks nearly 5 years ago still works perfectly fine.
I've had really bad luck with PC gamepads, and I could never find one that either felt comfortable, or sturdy enough that I couldn't break it over my forehead if I tried. At one point I got a $20 USB-PS2 converter along with a dancemat, and eventually I ended up going out and buying another Dual Shock to go along with it. I've used that ever since. |
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BMF54123 Since: 11-18-05 From: MOOGLES Last post: 6306 days Last view: 6306 days |
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Originally posted by C'aosUgh, PC gamepads have really gone down the crapper in the last decade (even Gravis, maker of the legendary Gravis Gamepad, has been reduced to churning out shoddy blobs of Chinese plastic with mushy D-pads and bloated graphical "drivers"). The best USB gamepad I've ever bought is the Saitek P880 Dual Analog...it's sturdy, extremely responsive, and has a nice, solid directional pad (by far the most important part of a gamepad). I also have a PS2-to-USB converter, though I've found it has a slight but noticeable lag. I generally use that for PSX emulation, or as controller 2 in all other emulators. 
As I recall, the P880 was only $20, which is a really friggin' good deal.  (edited by BMF54123 on 03-20-06 04:08 AM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6306 days Last view: 6306 days |
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| Yeah, I had one of those P880s, if I recall it was pretty good. Not sure what I did with it though. Logitech still makes decent gampads though. Not sure how sturdy, but I don't normally take out failures in the game on the gamepad. Nice solid control though, and a good price, $20 for 9 button with two analog sticks and a D-pad, and $10 without the sticks. It has those big bloated programs, but they're seperate from the driver, so you don't have to install it, actually the $10 one runs fine off default Windows drivers.
I've had one Gravis pad though. It seemed very sturdy and perfectly designed for my freakiously long thumbs, but it came "precalibrated" and there was no option to calibrate it. Trouble was the calibration was just slightly off so it was impossible to walk in a straight line. Plus there seemed to be another little quirk, where from time to time you would command a simple action such as "walk forward", and instead it would do something like "run around in circles then leap into the nearest pit". Back, on topic, a little over a year ago outpost.com had crazy deals on there motherboards and cpu combos. I bought a retail box (with warranty, fan, and heatsink) Sempron 2500+ with an ECS mb for $75 and two Duron 1.6Ghz (OEM) with PCChips board combos for $40 each. This is a pretty good deal now, it was crazy then. I kept one Duron combo and the Sempron combo, and sold the other Duron combo on eBay for $64. About the same time I got a 160 gb external hd on eBay for $21.50. The only hitch was it was missing it power cord, and it was some crazy proprietary deal. No problem, though, I just opened it up an like most external hard drives there was a perfectly good internal IDE drive inside. I plugged it into my ECS board with my Sempron, and they're both still running to this day as part of my MythTv system. I tell you, if cheapness was an Olympic event they'd be testing me for steriods. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6307 days Last view: 6307 days |
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| Yeah, I have the P880 too, it kicks ass.
Anyway I once bought an NES that worked perfectly, with a Game Genie, 5 controllers, 2 TV connectors and 2 power adaptors, and even got to keep the leather bag it came in... for two dollars. And the games were 50 cents each. Garage sales are pretty awesome sometimes. I also bought one brand new still in the box for $20. Works great.
And sometimes I go into an electronics repair shop to buy some obscure part, and they just pull it off an old motherboard and give it to me for free. Sure the part's only worth like 2 cents, but most places would charge at least a buck for it anyway. |
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NITIN Tektite Since: 03-17-06 From: Bangalore, India Last post: 6349 days Last view: 6306 days |
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| It all just goes to show that cheap dosen't necessarily
mean bad or unrelaible. On the topic of cheap keyboards, I know lots of people who ore satisfied by perfectly ordinary 101 key keyboadrs and do not need to spend extra for shortcut keys, egronopmics , etc. |
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