Maple Bus Saturn Game Controller Box

[manopac]

got this one from mister postman today ... (actually he only delivered it ;-) )

http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e9325367/ControllerBox.jpg

anyone knows what that is ?

the upper right says "Maple Bus Saturn Game Controller Box / Sega Enterprises, LTD. / CSPD#2 Div. Made in Japan"

got 4 Saturn controller Ports on front and an SCSI connector on the back where it says "Maple Bus" which makes me want to connect it to the Katana Dev-Kits expansion port ... no idea what the 8 ports on top are so ...

I am pretty sure its DC-Dev-parts, my theorie goes like this:
before DC controllers have been manufactured, these little thingies where used to connect Saturn controllers instead of the DC controllers to try games

seems to be just what I thought, some researching pulled up this:

"
TempesT: We understand you are working with a Dreamcast
Development kit. Would you tell us a little about the kit.

SB: We have had three revisions of dev-kit. Set 2 which was
basically a Power-VR card for the PC and a set of libraries, ninja. All
other stuff was emulated on the host PC. Set 4 was 40% speed
Hardware with an early SH4, faster Power VR and full GD-ROM
system capabilities on it. It used a maple bus converter to allow us
to use conventional Saturn game pads. Set 5 is the 100% complete
dev-kit with proper joy ports etc.
"

[Paulo]

That is nice how much though?

[LeGIt]

It's the Saturn -> Maple bus converter which is used by my Katana Set 4 (which I'm missing) which was used to connect the Saturn 3D controller. It is unlikely it will work on anything other than a Set 4. I've not dug out my Set4 for some time but I believe it has a dedicated port for this.

How much did you pay for it? Is it for sale? If not, want a Set 4? :P

[Paulo]

Legit i might want that set 4...

[Mark30001]