Uses for the 5V on the back of the PC-FX?

[MissaFX]

ya, the blue led is a bad-ass must  I would like to see what you can come up with for your pc-fx missa 

Well here is my understanding.  Most LEDs work at around 3V or less.  So I would probably need some kind of resistor before the LED.  I have no idea about what type or kind, but I assume a small one lol.  Then it would just need a wire ran from the place the 5V back out takes its tap or from in inside back by taking a tap off the 5v jack itself, but from inside.  And then some holes would have to be made in the top of the CD lid to let the wires though.  I'm not so sure about doing that.  There is an open hole in the back of the CD area so no hole has to be put in the CD drive itself thank god.

Don't expect me to do this in the near future, if I do it, it will probably be once I can get my hands on a dead PC-FX, so like if anything happens to anything I will most likely have a replacement part.

[MissaFX]

I enjoy 90s anime a lot. This is why I bought a laser disc player which is much better at playing movies than even the FX.

I own a convection toaster.  It's makes great frozen pizza's for watching anime movies on my LD player.  However neither is a game machine...which the PC-FX is.  How do you even start to compare and LD player with a CD console?  Neither are designed to do the same thing unless you argue the LD player was designed to play games.  Sure there are 2 LD game consoles, but they really are 2 different kind of machines for different purposes.

Everyone here knows the FX as a huge disappointment, we just handle it differently.

  Enjoy what is, not what could have been.  Maybe you were expecting something from the system that it never would deliver.  That's not its fault.

I love my 3DO, but like the FX the system is largly untapped.  I could pout and say it is an aweful system.  Or I can love it for the games it does have and accept it for what it is.  I play it more than my PS1 or PS2, more than the XBOX, more than the Dreamcast.  Why?  I happen to like Laserdisc games and railshooters.  Digital Dreamware is fun retro crack too.

To me the FX is the most refreshing system I have played in a long time.  I got it instead of a PS3, Wii or 360.  Really, I took the money I would have put to one of those systems.  I and instead got a console, 3 controllers (2 new, 1 used) new mouse, 18 games (though about 7 are still in shipping) and a memory card.  Now I just need an ugly, discolored FX to use as parts to keep this thing going for 10 more years.  I'm at least running it with a stepdown transformer to avoid it getting extra heat.

Lastly, I don't have a problem with you saying you don't like the PC-FX, but I don't think you should be lumping everyone else on the board in with you when you use the word Everyone.

[Necromancer]

Well said, but what's the second LD console, or are you counting Pioneer and NEC models seperately?  Oh, how I'd love to get me one of those beasts (some day, some day).

[MissaFX]

Well said, but what's the second LD console, or are you counting Pioneer and NEC models seperately?  Oh, how I'd love to get me one of those beasts (some day, some day).

I'm counting the Sega LD system (Pioneer LaserActive in the USA) as one and the Halcyon as the other.

[Necromancer]

Ahhh, I see - I thought that the Halcyon system died before release and only prototypes existed.  In case you didn't know, the LaserActive had add-ons in Sega and Turbo flavors (as well as karaoke, but that ain't gaming so nobody gives a hoot).

[MissaFX]

Ahhh, I see - I thought that the Halcyon system died before release and only prototypes existed.  In case you didn't know, the LaserActive had add-ons in Sega and Turbo flavors (as well as karaoke, but that ain't gaming so nobody gives a hoot).

I am not talking about the addons as much as I am talking about the Sega produced laserdisc games in japan which can play on the Pioneer system. 

And the Halcyon did come out, I have seen them sold on ebay over the years.  There are 2 release games and 2 prototype games (basicly the other 2 games are rare as gold because they were only produced in the hundreds).  The 2 prototype games work as far as I know.  Now don't quote me on this next part because I have only seen the jackets for the games once at a show, but I think one was a racing game, the other was some kind of animated adventure, maybe like Kingdom: The Far Reaches on the 3DO.

I dream of a day when I can afford a LD copy of Pyramid Patrol for the Laseractive.

My LD player is a cheap Pioneer 505 btw, but it works great.  Just no pause with screen on CLV.  I would have to also get a Laseractive player to play that game. 

[Necromancer]

Understood regarding the Halcyon - my brain was just wrong (again).

Aren't the add-ons required to play the LaserActive games, considering they were all either Mega-LD (Sega) or LD-ROM² (NEC)?

[MissaFX]

I talked about both things in the same paragraph.  Seperate systems.  I put in a blank line to seperate them better.

[MissaFX]

Aren't the add-ons required to play the LaserActive games, considering they were all either Mega-LD (Sega) or LD-ROM² (NEC)?

To also make this more clear: I have seen stand alone Mega-LD players which were not part of the Pioneer system which used the moduals to let it play the software of different systems.  As far as I know they only play movies and Mega-LD discs.

[Kitsunexus]

Somebody get one of those labelmakers and put "DON'T TASE ME BRO!" right above the 5V out. 

[MissaFX]

How about "Metal Chopstick Polisher"?

[Kitsunexus]

How about "Metal Chopstick Polisher"?

That's funny, and very clever, but it has no Eminem or Billy Ray Cyrus spoofs, and was not shouted during a debate with John Kerry.

But you have given me the idea to buy buttloads of surplus radio antennas and sell them as "telescopic metal chopsticks" so you are a genius. ^__^