Have you guys looked into Mega Anser? It must have been supposed to be compatible with at least a numeric pad, since the demo mode shows how numbers are entered directy unlike letters, which use a virtual keyboard instead.
AerosolSP, on 10 June 2012 - 01:35 PM, said:
ICEknight, on 09 June 2012 - 01:57 PM, said:
Also, Nintendo was already working on the Mii system back in the NES era... I'm sure we'd be surprised at some of the unreleased projects many of the important companies were working on in the old days.
Thing with Mega Anser is, you can see in that shot I did that it's hooked up to a telephone - if it's using DTMF tones on the phone, it could just listen for them without any need for hardware beyond the modem. That said, #2 on that picture is テンキーパシード which Google works out as "Numeric Keypad", so eh =P
So perhaps the Ten Key Pad could have been made from the original keyboard's specifications? They might have decided that, for some reason, the numeric keyboard was the only thing a Mega Drive user would really need, and removed the rest of it.
And so it ended being a useless piece of hardware... But if this is the case, there might be remnants of the keyboard input readings inside the ROM. Might be worth disassembling just in case?
This post has been edited by ICEknight: 11 June 2012 - 08:02 PM
Also, Nintendo was already working on the Mii system back in the NES era... I'm sure we'd be surprised at some of the unreleased projects many of the important companies were working on in the old days.
I want to know more about this.
I did have some screenshots from a Nintendo mag a couple years ago with articles on unreleased Nintendo games. For now here's a video about it.
This post has been edited by minichapman: 12 June 2012 - 05:49 AM
The symbol is there, it's just the much smaller variant that I know has a different meaning, that I couldn't figure out how to type, so compromised. That or it's a tsu. Come on, they're almost the same: ツ シ
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