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I have a CD32.

I like my CD32.. sometimes.

Anyway, can anyone recommend a suitable controller for it? The one that came with it is on it's last legs it seems and it's not that good anyway.

Would a 6 button Megadrive pad work with it? Anyone got any ideas?

The cd32 had its own unique method for presenting the extra buttons, so I don't think a pad for any other system will work.
However, any Amiga / Atari 9-pin joystick will work, and I think most games didn't use the extra buttons anyway.

Otherwise you might be able to gut it and put the circuit board into a better pad, but that will be fiddly.

You should be able to get two buttons out of a megadrive pad (B&C for Red & Blue?), but I don't know if anything else will work.
I've no idea where you might get a pad from though, I think I threw my console out a few years ago and presumably the pads with it.

I've seen a playstation adaptor on eBay for the CD32 but I doubt it'll work.. call my cynical!

I'll give the Megadrive pad a go though.. I'm sure they'd be a small market for retro controllers etc. Someone should think of the children and do something!

The six-button Megadrive pad is The option for The Vision, yes. That's the one for the CD32.

Direct and to the point, I like this a lot!

Yep, the six button megadrive pad works fine. I need to dig my CD32 out of storage at some point, still a wonderful machine.

a the arcade joystick and the 200 in one game disk, yummy

For those of you keeping score.. I'm getting my CD32 from my parents this evening!

Was it Alien Breed 3D that was the good one? In fact... can anyone recommend me do the definitive games for the CD32?

Guardian
Road Kill
Rise of the Robots (kidding)
Er, Banshee?

No, definitely not the 3D one. I don't think that came out on the CD32 anyway. Alien Breed's a bit disappointing to go back to anyway, the respawning enemies are infuriating.

It was. I had two.

They weren't the most sturdy of pads though, hence the 'had'w

Slightly more durable and just as doomed:

Plus Lik-Sang used to sell them dirt cheap. Every time I'd get one or two in for my site, they'd sell within days. Unfortunately, they ran out.

You're joking, right?

I do recommend you get the 200, 350, 444, 888 'Multi Game Compilations' which should be found all over the place: as the CD32 is an Amiga, it can play pretty much every old Amiga game ever, and loads of them fit on a single disc. You don't need to mod your CD32 or anything. They're silly fun when you're bored out of your wits and you want to play terrible crap.

About 10% of the games on them require you to use the keyboard, so if that happens, just skip em. (The keyboard is not easy to find, or you could mutilate an A500 if you care. Don't do this.)

Just got back from my parents and got my CD32! I found one of those competition pro pads in my old loft as well as a megadrive 6 button pad.

So far I've played Bubba and Stix and Banshee. I do have Guardian, Shadow Fighter and even Rise of the Robots (This was £34.99 credit crunch fans.. the sticker is still on it)

Only one problem.. I don't remember the borders ever being this bad!

High Five fellow Rise of the Robots owner.

In the past month, I've bought Rise of the Robots for the CD32 and for the Megadrive. The CD32 box is much nicer. On the outside. Haven't quite dared open it yet...

I have Dangerous Streets, Diggers and Microcosm...

I got that pack with Oscar, Diggers, Microcosm, Chaos Engine, Dangerous Streets and Wing Commander, but mine didn't have the Dangerous Streets/Wing Commander disc in it. I didn't bother to go back and complain.

Ah, yep. That must have been what the previous owner did. And presumably why they didn't want it any more.

When you say they're available anywhere... erm... where exactly? I've had a quick look (in my local shop-Ed) but can't find anyone to serve me! If you get my drift?!?

Did you try just looking for CD32 plus the numbers?

Okay, so you've got Diggers. You've got Microcosm. You've got Dangerous Streets. But I'll bet you don't have it twice.



The full collection (not long started). Some kind of points for anyone who can identify the game in the last picture, above Sabre Team. Clue: it's a full-price commercial game that also appeared on the Amiga.

Hmm.. Ruff N Tumble maybe?

Nope! I do not have Ruff n' Tumble for the CD32 Is it on the CD32? Wannit!

Well, the little face on it looks like a very much more malevolent version of Marvin from Marvin's Marvellous Adventure.

Edit - Huh, whaddya know, he looks malevolent on the cover.

So I guess it's him.

MrD wins a year's supply of air!

*Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.*

It's an awesome game, even today. Hard as nails. My CD32 came with a couple of those compilation CDs and the (I think) A500 version was included

ruff n' tumble is indeed ace. its one of those games that came near the end of the amiga and not many people know. Another not-so-old one i remember loving is Virocop. Anyone remembers that one?

I completed the demo f that quite a few times. Never did get the full game though.

STOP MAKING ME WANT TO BUY A CD32.

They are pretty cheap on eBay from what I can see and with that link that MrD provided, there's no real reason not to get one!

So in closing.. get one!

Why didn't everyone get them 14 years ago?
They could have taken over the console market and we'd all still be using our amiga computers and CD360s.

They were pretty shit. Worth remembering that CD compilations of 400 Amiga games weren't available at the time, and the PlayStation and Saturn were on the near horizon.

Rise of the Robots vs Tekken or Toshinden or Virtua Fighter?
I see what you mean.

I do keep meaning to set up one of my CD32s but it's a case of finding a bit of space really. That and most of my best games have been sold.

Nice machine to get hold of now, though. I just wouldn't want to pay £199 for it and £35 for individual games.

Damn you! That's the opposite of what I asked for! They are quite cheap on eBay, though...

Yeah, looking at the completed listings, you should be able to get a complete setup for about £30 which seems cheaper than usual - guess it's just phases of collectible-ness. The cool kids are all buying GX4000s probably.

I think I paid much more than £30 for my CD32 about a year ago.. It did come with quite a few games though but one of which was Dangerous Streets. Maybe they saw me coming?

Mine came with Labyrinth of Time
I should have hunted the seller down and killed him.