those weird gamecube controller keyboad thingies and stuff...

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Ok. I've got both so I guess I can explain some things.

The Datel keyboard is for the quick and dirty player who doesn't want to have to type everything out using the software keyboard. The adaptor to my knowledge doesn't seem to overheat, maybe it's yours?

The keyboard mapping problem is maybe due to the fact ST thought there wouldn't be another keyboard released and only mapped the Japanese (ASCII/funny combo controller) keyboard. With this keyboard it's like all the keys on the top row !"£$%^ are moved to the left one place. Try it next time you play. They should be one place out of synch. With the DC, Sega was going to release the keyboard globally, so they would have to program for different keyboard layouts. But since this wasn't their console, they didn't know and only programmed for the official ASCII keyboard which wasn't released outside Japan.

When I phoned Code Junkies/Datel about it, they said they hadn't tried the PSO with the controller and only on their own softare, Action Replay. Even though they advertised the game on the front -.-

Maybe it is, but about the Datel Keyboard, it does overheat, but not quite for the quick and dirty player, I mean, I use it, its just all of the symbols are like, out of whack. I type the exact same way on that keyboard that I type here, possibly even better. But its just a pain to memorize the "New" Positions of symbols such as colons and apostrophes.