I'm wondering if an MSX hardware developer has ever thought about/experimented with developing a bluetooth cartridge for MSX. It might offer some interesting file transfer (mobile) options, but perhaps support for the Wii controller is possible as well. Konami Tennis/Ping Pong IPS patched for Wii controller anyone? ^_^

You are a sick puppy Snout. But I like the idea. I would really like to play Operation Wolf with a Wii controller

I doubt the MSX would have the power to interpolate the wii remote coordinates, translate them into 2d coords, and still run a game at the same time...

...also doesnt konami's ping pong racket's move by themselves? all controls would have to be changed...

But, yeah, it would be cool

hmmm... now to think about it, maybe a lightgun cartridge (which could process the gun position by itself, without blinking the screen) - that would be veeeeeeery nice

I am playing Konami's games with dancing mat

Nowind has made a USB-proto, I'm not sure if they will made more.

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During the MSX Fair in Nijmegen - which will be held on January 20th - the Dutch MSX group Nowind (Jan Wilmans and Aaldert Dekker) are to demonstarte their upcoming USB Interface for MSX. With the interface you can connect your MSX to a PC in order to access contents on the PC hard drive. So far two working prototypes have been made with the following specifications: * 512kb flash ROM * DOS2 * FAT16 support * Support for MSX1 computers * Support for harddisk images MSX computers without clockchip will get the date from the PC and firmware updates will be available for download and can be flashed into the interface over USB. The interface manages to get approximately 175 Kb/s on MSX2, which is a little slower than some harddisks/flashcards, but not everything has been optimized yet. Currently the interface is being tested for compatibility with various MSX computers. Relevant link: Nowind MSX USB interface website

I like to have one.

Two weeks ago (at my daughter's birthday) I strongly advised Jan W. to produce the USB interface. I think he/they will do it because else I will kick his/their butt(s). We are already working on a promogame for the interface so imho the thing will be produced. But nothing is sure ofcourse. We ARE talking Sargon members right.

www.time4.com/time4/microsites/popsci/howitworks/nintendo_wii.html
I don't know exactly how a WII controller transmit/decode movement to console... but it would really be cool on MSX

legacy/yum: this topic is about Bluetooth, not USB... or would the Nowind interface work with USB Bluetooth dongles?

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legacy/yum: this topic is about Bluetooth, not USB... or would the Nowind interface work with USB Bluetooth dongles?

Well, that's what i am thinking of
if someone write a driver for it, why not??

The nowind USB interface is a client interface, right? So it needs a host to run - and that host is not the MSX computer. I don't think it would work.

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The nowind USB interface is a client interface, right? So it needs a host to run - and that host is not the MSX computer. I don't think it would work.

That's a pity.

Hi, i'm one of the developers of Nowind. Poltergeist is right. The Nowind interface is a USB-client device. This means it needs a host to operate. Just like it make no sense to connect two usb memory sticks, you cannot connect a usb memory stick to Nowind.

The main purpose of the device is to connect the MSX to a pc. We chose for USB because is available on almost all modern computers. Right now, the interfaces acts like a diskrom. A far as the MSX is concerned, a normal diskrom is connected that it can use. The disks it reads are diskimages stored on the pc (these can be large harddisk images as well).

We want to produce a first batch of 30 devices within 2 months. More information can be found on:
www.myquest.nl/nowindusb

This is a really old post, but wanted to add a response anyway.
Snout: actually, accessing bluetooth devices on msx IS possible with the Nowind Interface.
But it's not really as direct as you described it; As it is possible to access ANY device connected to the PC, that includes bluetooth!

I've successfully used my WII-remote on my PC using GlovePIE, also needed to install the BlueSoleil bluetooth stack (not free software) to recoqnize my Wii Remote.
What is needed for Wii-remote support on MSX is a usbhost-extention for passing the Wii remote input to the msx AND most importantly
a way to "inject" the joystick/mouse/keyboard movements into the play you want to play. Probably the best way to do that is an interrupt routine that scans the usb-interface for controller input and map it to either keystokes (insert them into the keyboard-queue?) unfortunately this will not work for many games. specially games that scan the keyboard matrix themselves.

In short, it might be possible but someone would need to write some extra code for it.

My question,would a z80 be able to keep up with the work?I think the original bluetooth specification would not like a 3.58mhz processor.

Well on the other hand if the nowind interface is doing all the work the why not?

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My question,would a z80 be able to keep up with the work?I think the original bluetooth specification would not like a 3.58mhz processor. Well on the other hand if the nowind interface is doing all the work the why not?

Quite correct, however, the beauty of the MSX Cartridge port would probably make such a device possible.