Bibin said:
Welcome to ModRetro, where the facts are made up and the posts don't matter!
That's not the reason. If you were "losing power" from the smaller, high gauge wire, it would be heating up. You'd know. The power draw of the controller, the rumble pack, or all of them together, is not significant enough for this to be the cause.
if I was to use a lamp or motor that has a higher power requirement then what is being supplied would be your example. that's not the case here. the rumbler motor can run on 2v, just not as efficiently and reactive as the full 3v+, so there would be no heating up, its running on low voltage instead of undervolting or trying to draw power. the more power you give it the faster it go's, it's not going to stop working or burn up if its not running at full power.
vskid3 said:
How many other wired controllers have batteries to power their rumble motor(s)? Oh, that's right, none (that I know of). I don't know why Nintendo decided the N64 rumble needed batteries, but I know that my wired 360 controller doesn't have a problem pulling power for its two rumble motors through its 10' cord with teeny-tiny wires. At the very least, its not the wire's fault.
your trying to compare a 3 volt controller to every 5+ volt controller made since the n64, and the x box has thicker +/- voltage wire's to make up for it's length, take one apart and look for yourself. and the n64 only has 3 wire's going to the controller, the game cube, x box, play station controller's with built in rumbler's are all 5v+. and most have a dedicated rumbler power line. the n64 and controller was designed before the rumble pack, so they didn't take the power need's in mind. some of you are confusing fact's like 1.
there are 3rd party rumble packs for the n64 that don't need battery's, but
they are weaker and for a reason. 2. the 3v from 2 AA battery's are dedicated to the rumbler pac, where the 3 volt line is shared and don't have the same amount of power at the controller as it doe's the system because it loses some of it's power over the length of the cord with it's thin +/- line's (check for yourself, and test more then just voltage) to your own untested speculation 1, people say it's 3v, so it has to work the same as 2 battery's, 2, that the 3v line of a n64 should be able to do what every other systems controller's 5v requirement was meant for just because they have rumblers built in.
and when someone present's you with the fact's (or opinion) don't assume they have to be wrong just because there new here, when you have nothing proving your right, and the fact's you present are full of hole's, you only compromise any since of reliability someone might of had in your opinion's.
I haven't gone out of my way to attack, put down, or say it will not work to anyone, just sharing useable info and defending myself, I'll need to be proven wrong before I admit I'm wrong. at the same time I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong.
"Rumble pack... Without batteries?" it can be done. in a n64? probably not going to be as strong without battery's, or upping the voltage. but it can be done.
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