It almost looks like it could go to a game console, too. You've got me curious now. Hope someone can ID it for you.

I think that's for hooking up Sega Saturn gamepads to the Diamond Edge 3d. It's a rare (and pretty expensive now) card nowadays. If you don't have the card, please list it on an auction site so someone who does have one can make use of it.

The Sega Saturn gamepad port looks very different from that.

All the Diamond Edge 3d cards I've seen had what looked like an RJ-45 connector on the back. That's only been on auction sites and whatnot though.

If it weren't for the joystick stamp on the plastic I'd really assume this was a proprietary Midi cable.

That's the wrong gender, isn't it? A PC gameport is already female. Accordingly, it must be used to plug a PC game controller into something else. Some kind of device to simulate autofire, perhaps? Or to change the game controller output to keyboard controls? Perhaps a wireless adapter?

A Google image search turns up nothing useful, alas.

I wonder if this could be something to connect, say, a joystick to a corresponding throttle; e.g. the joystick could be used by itself, but you'd use the adapter to connect to a throttle option?

Ziginox, I think you got pretty close to the truth. I bet you anything it goes to a laptop, or to a laptop docking station. But I could be wrong, of course.

keenmaster486 wrote:

Ziginox, I think you got pretty close to the truth. I bet you anything it goes to a laptop, or to a laptop docking station. But I could be wrong, of course.

Yeah, I have a similar cable for my ThinkPad 760ED, except it uses a micro centronics-style plug. However, the weird square DIN-plug seems unsuitable for a laptop.

Well, agreed, the only time I've ever seen plugs like that is on video cards, which go to breakout boxes for s-video, RGB output and stuff like that. But you never know.

Yes, it very much does look like the plugs the All In Wonder X600 used. I looked into the Diamond Edge 3D. While it has a DA-15 dongle, the end that plugs into the computer is an 8P8C connector (like 10base-T ethernet.)

Looks like MIDI cable for unknown device.

peklop wrote:

Looks like MIDI cable for unknown device.

Really? I'd have never guessed. Thank you for waking up an old thread with such quality information!

Looks abit like a neogeo cable. Pin Layout wise

Jade Falcon wrote:

Looks abit like a neigeo cable. Pin Layout wise

Thanks for mentioning that, I wasn't aware that Neo Geo also used DA-15 plugs for controllers. 😀

Ziginox wrote:

Jade Falcon wrote:

Looks abit like a neigeo cable. Pin Layout wise

Thanks for mentioning that, I wasn't aware that Neo Geo also used DA-15 plugs for controllers. 😀

According to this, it uses plugs that are deeper than usual, while the one on your cable is a normal one. However, it might be an adapter cable allowing you to connect a game controller meant for a PC to a game console, an obscure one. Alternatively, it could be a breakout cable for providing a system (laptop?) with proprietary ports with a standard game port.