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Slot-2 Motion Pak, Guitar Grip emulation #2183
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Slot-2 Motion Pak, Guitar Grip emulation #2183
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return 0; | ||
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// Read Z rotation | ||
// CHECKME: This is a guess, compare with real hardware |
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You may have a hard time here as I'm not entirely convinced the homebrew Slot2 motion pack was ever actually sold/made available. The only product I can find with a motion pack is supposedly the Neoflash "R6Gold".
All of my knowledge of the homebrew cart's spec comes from libnds.
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You may have a hard time here as I'm not entirely convinced the homebrew Slot2 motion pack was ever actually sold/made available.
Absolutely was. https://web.archive.org/web/20080509173200/http://www.ndsmotion.com/ has a list of stores and photos of the packaging.
The problem is that these types of products (the DSerial Edge has a similar problem) were predominantly popular with homebrew developers themselves, so not only did they probably sell in highly limited qualities, they're unlikely to pop up on the second-hand market due to personal nostalgia.
There were six products in total which featured Kionix's technology, five of which were for the DS family of consoles; I maintain a list here: https://wiki.asie.pl/doku.php?id=notes:flashcart:ds_motion_card - of those, the GBAccelerometer is the easiest to find (it's still available in stock in 2024), but that's not a DS product; next, there's the Activision pak, and after that probably the R6 Gold?
I tested with an MK6-Motion myself, which happens to feature both the accelerometer and gyroscope chip; since the chips themselves and thus values output should be identical between the Card and a Pak, I deemed the emulation to be accurate enough for running homebrew (which is the important thing for me from a preservation perspective), but I can't verify fine details like the Pak's open bus behaviour or any additional SPI/ROM commands the Card might have.
All of my knowledge of the homebrew cart's spec comes from libnds.
There's some additional bits of information in a README bundled with the original DS Motion Card/Pak driver source code on said website.
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(Either way, I don't expect this to be resolved as part of this PR, and the detection mechanism used by all homebrew for the Pak doesn't rely on open bus behaviour.)
This PR adds emulation of the following Slot-2 devices:
Closes #74 and #73 . Related to #755 . Testing welcome.