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   From: bel@whipassgaming.com   
      
   > There's at least one game that needs an SMS controller to work on the   
   > PBC -- Montezuma's Revenge.   
      
   I keep hearing about this game...I don't know that I've played it just   
   yet. I am going to go ahead and grab that cheap SMS 1 controller though,   
   so we should be good. Using one of the two that came with the SMS lot, I   
   have to say that I *do not* like that controller and will probably only   
   use it if a game requires me to.   
      
   > As for the SMS glasses, the good thing about them is that they are   
   > standard 3D LCD shutter glasses that have a 1/8" jack on them.  A pair   
   > of these is easy to find -- they used to give them away with some PC   
   > video cards in the late 90's.  The Sega ones are pretty garbage   
   > quality (the arms are about on par in plastic durability as a CD case,   
   > which is to say shitty) if you just want to play the games dont go the   
   > expensive route and buy them.   
      
   I keep hear that. Not ever actually seeing a pair of them, I have no   
   idea what I'm in store for. Scott mentions, over at WAG Forums, that he   
   actually put a different pair of arms on his...which sounds pretty nice.   
      
   > The real problem is finding the cart slot adaptor that the glasses   
   > plug into.  I have a feeling that these turn up on ebay by themselves   
   > often because the flimsy goggles break and people don't know any   
   > better that there's a common replacement for them.   
      
   Yeah, I'd imagine it's a lot like trying to find that Genesis 1   
   conversion cable for the 32X...   
      
   > Failing finding one of the interfaces, it's probably quite easy to rig   
   > them up to the PBC itself with some soldering.  The glasses have two   
   > connections -- one is gnd and the other is for a squarewave pulse to   
   > signal the LCD shutters to close.  The card slot adaptor likely doesnt   
   > have any electronics other than something to pass the square wave   
   > signal through.   Find out which pin on the card slot are the pulse   
   > and gnd and connect a small 1/8" headphone socket somewhere upstream   
   > from the card slot.   If you take the case off a PBC youll see that   
   > there's really not much too it.  The boards themselves are quite small   
   > as it's mostly a passthrough to the Megadrive/Genesis.  Most of the   
   > SMS compatability is resident in the Megadrive itself.  It should be   
   > easy to run a wire out of the PBC for the headphone socket.   
      
   Interesting. Do you have any links for glasses that would work with the   
   SMS, assuming I had the card dongle? I'm not really opposed to getting a   
   non-Sega brand as long as they work just the same.   
      
   Bel   
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