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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]

PopCap’s tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies is available on pretty much every modern gaming device, from PCs to smartphones. And it’s also on at least one classic console: the Sega Genesis aka the Mega Drive. The Penny-Arcade Report’s Ben Kuchera stumbled upon this 16-bit curio at PAX Australia.

Image by Ben Kuchera

Unsurprisingly, the port is an unofficial and illegal game. Dave Cudrev of Retrospekt bought a copy of the game on eBay for around $30 (USD) from a Russian coder. YouTuber Stepan V, whose video of the game appears below, was also able to snag one from an “underground retro video game market” in Russia. The game’s graphics have taken a considerable hit, plus it’s in Russian, but otherwise it seems to be the same as the original game.

It would be hilarious if it got DLC via the Mega-CD.

[via The PA Report]

There we were, thinking touch-based versions of gaming classics were a bad idea on a device intended for gaming — and then we saw Sonic the Hedgehog 2 running on a Nook Simple Touch. YouTube user “ndncnbvcuyuys” rooted his touch-based Barnes & Noble e-reader, installed the Android 2.1 OS on it, and hooked up a Sega Genesis emulator. The results are not what we’d call “ideal,” but as the hacker says, “It is playable.” Sure, technically speaking, the on-screen virtual buttons allow interaction with Sonic and his buddy Tails, but whether it’s any fun at all is another question altogether. “ndncnbvcuyuys” seems to have a penchant for the impossibly fast games on touch-based e-readers, as he got PlayStation 1’s WipeOut running on the Nook Simple Touch just a few weeks back. Might we suggest a PlayStation Vita instead?

[Thanks, Ron]

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The Nook Simple Touch can run a Genesis emulator, but should it? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re sure that many of you guys have made bets before while playing video games, and these bets tend to be for favors or money, but it seems that two gamers, Dyak and Furrtek have decided to take it one step further by modding a Sega Genesis with shock collars meant for dogs dubbed Genezap. This combined with a custom piece of software will in turn shock the players when a mistake in a game has been made. So far the code has been inserted into several Genesis games, such as Battletoads where the collar will shock the player when a life is lost, and in the original Sonic game where the player will be shocked when he/she dies or when they lose rings from taking damage. We doubt there’s going to be a huge demand for this mod, but it certainly is pretty novel and to a certain extent rather amusing, although in all honesty we would rather not be on the receiving end. You can check out the video above to see it in action although you might want to brush up on your French first.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: PlayStation Vita runs Sega Genesis games, Gears of War FPS – “Never say never,” according to executive producer Rod Fergusson,

There are masochists, and then there are masochists. We’d have to put French hackers Dyak and Furrtek in the latter category. The two ingenious and self destructive modders tweaked the beloved Sega Genesis to send signals to a pair of controllers any time the player takes damage. That signal doesn’t produce rumbles or blinking lights, however, it’s passed through a port to a shock collar meant for dogs. That’s right, every time you get hit, you get zapped. The jolt of electricity you receive is hardly deadly, but it’s certainly not pleasant, as you can tell from the barrage of obscenities bleeped out of the above video. The hack isn’t exactly easy but, if you’re bold, and don’t mind a bit of pain, you’ll find full details of the mod at the source link.

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French hackers connect a shock collar to a Sega Genesis, let obscenities fly (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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