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@owashii@plush.city i checked out of curiosity and there's nothing in the communications protocol to suggest that it was a feature planned when the system was released, the commands to turn on and off the rumble pak are the same general-purpose ones used to communicate with anything else plugged into the controller port, like a "controller pak" memory card or a transfer pak
i was thinking they might have had dedicated commands that would indicate they might have been planned in advance but no
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@owashii@plush.city like the feature was planned from the beginning for the playstation, so the playstation controller port has a dedicated pin for powering the rumble motors with as much as 9 V, where the N64 rumble pak was limited to the same 3.3 V the controller otherwise runs at
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