I apologize that this information is partial and not entirely coherent. This is all I could discover without a working knowledge of Japanese; I thank you for your patience in wading through this; it's organized as best I could manage.
This is a request being made to the development community at large; if anyone is willing to write and test a driver, I could sport them one of these devices. The Trance Vibrator is a USB Playstation 2 accessory that shipped with a special edition (available only in Japan) of the game Rez. A few places export the device. (Sorry, some pictures at this link may not be work-safe; all other links in this message *are* work-safe.) [ http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-70-2pn-4-1-71-q.html ]. An enterprising fellow ("Mc.N") seems to have tried to reverse-engineer the device, with some success. The page is in Japanese; if I'm guessing wrong about what it says, please correct me. [ http://homepage1.nifty.com/mcn/lab/machines/trance_vibrator/ ]. The hacker ran USBView on the device to get the following output (an excerpt from [ http://homepage1.nifty.com/mcn/lab/machines/trance_vibrator/usbview.vib.txt ]): ... idVendor: 0x0B49 idProduct: 0x064F bcdDevice: 0x0100 iManufacturer: 0x01 0x0409: "ASCII CORPORATION" iProduct: 0x02 0x0409: "ASCII Vib " iSerialNumber: 0x00 bNumConfigurations: 0x01 ... That is the vendor ID for ASCII Corp. listed in [ http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids ]; the product ID is not listed. (So, at the very least, this is a request to modify usb.ids to read: 0B49 ASCII Corp. 064F ASCII Trance Vibrator to usb.ids.) There is a Mac OSX *something* available (DMG package [ http://cathand.org/archive/vibrator02.dmg ], explanation of source [ http://cathand.org/development/usb.html ]), which may or may not contain the information needed to control the device. (There are code samples, but the explanation is in Japanese.) There is a reference to a driver 'transv.c' for FreeBSD, but the link is down and archive.org does not contain it. There's a Windows 2000/XP program to drive the device (it appears as a 'Universal USB Driver (Mouse)', apparently) available. [ http://www.freak.ne.jp/~it/TrV/ ]. I was unable to find source, though there's a nice big JPG of the device's internals [ http://www.freak.ne.jp/~it/TrV/bunkai.jpg ] there. The reverse engineer is named Makoto NARA ("Mc.N"); his email address is available on [ http://groups.yahoo.co.jp/group/bccompiler/message/147?expand=1 ] , but I can't figure out how to get my own account so I can see his unprotected address. Someone has already made an attempt at deciphering the Japanese; his results are inconclusive, see [ http://www.livejournal.com/users/jibakushounen/553598.html ]. If I'm barking up the wrong tree here, please tell me so. I think there's enough material here to make a stab at reverse-engineering something. Is anyone willing to take a look at this? --adam buchbinder, graduate student, computer science and engineering ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id%62&alloc_ida84&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
