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These days you can run dozens of classic games on a PC using emulators. If you’re good with modding hardware, you may be able to connect the right controller for the console you’re emulating. But if you’re Patrice Daubaire, you take it one step further. Patrice hacked 75 controllers to make them compatible with over 110 gaming systems.

Patrice calls his ingenious mod the Multi Video Game System 2 or MVGS 2. He managed to universalize 75 controllers – from an Atari 2600 joystick to aPlayStation controller – so that they’ll work with different gaming systems via a custom VGA adapter. Patrice claims his system has zero input lag and that the controllers weigh more or less the same as unmodified ones. Patrice was also able to add additional functions like a quick save button on some of the controllers.

To present his invention, Patrice built the MVGS 2 Dream Station, a PC with over 30 gaming system emulators. It has a nice cabinet with a built-in monitor and lets up to two players geek out. He also setup a rotating display stand for the controllers.

Pick your jaw up from the floor and head to the MVGS 2 website for more information.

[via Hack A Day]

Earlier this year Gran Turismo 6 was announced much to the delight of fans around the world. Unfortunately the game was announced for the PlayStation 3, which was a little weird given that Sony had already unveiled the PlayStation 4 and many had presumed Gran Turismo 6 would arrive on the PS4. The semi-good news back then was that a PS4 version of the game was being planned, but speaking recently during gamescom 2013 in Germany, Polyphony Digital’s CEO, Kazunori Yamauchi, revealed that by the time Gran Turismo 6 made its way onto the PS4, it could very well have evolved to Gran Turismo 7 by then.

This was a hypothetical scenario that Yamauchi imagined as it would take a while for Gran Turismo 6 to arrive on the PS4, along with the uncertainty that the vision of Gran Turismo 6 would be able to carry over to Gran Turismo 7. Unfortunately this doesn’t leave us with much to work on since it doesn’t deny nor does it confirm that the game will arrive on the PlayStation 4. In any case for gamers looking forward to Gran Turismo 6, you might want to hold off on selling your PlayStation 3 for now.

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Miss our liveblog of Sony’s Gamescom press conference yesterday, or the wealth of news we’ve covered on all things PlayStation? Well, we forgive you. After all, there’s a whole lot to digest. Now, chances are they’ll be more Sony tidbits appearing as the German gaming event runs its course, but for now we’ve collected, compiled and condensed everything we’ve learned in one handy place: right after the break.

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