Dan Middle, owner of Sony’s UX UMPC, found that platform to be less than appealing when it came to portable gaming, decided to literally take things into his own hands by hacking a cheap USB gamepad, resulting in a set of controls that build available all eight buttons on a loner hand, while the other hand will be free to aim with the UX’s mouse controls. The gamepad, originally a “Genius MaxFire Pandora Pro Foldable Mini

USB Gamepad for PC” has been attached to a CF dummy card, slotting divinely into the UX’s CF port. After some evaluating, it seems that usability is pretty decent, with Vista even recognizing it as a gaming peripheral. Does that mean the PSP and DS Lite are doomed?

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Orginal post by Tom Krazit