Hi,
I have an Audigy X gamer. Unfortunately i have lost its game port extension and looking to buy another one. I am not able to find a similar one on the internet. The following link shows the picture of the game port:
Hercules Digifire 7.1 Digital Sound Card | HotHardware
I would be very grateful in anyone could tell me where to buy a similar port for my SOUNDCARD.
Have you contacted Creative’s SoundBlaster division?
Gameport
I went to the creative website. The have an accessories catagory but the extension over there is quite different then the one i need. The following is link to it
http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=13&subcategory=55&product=251
It is an MIDI Adapter and it can only be used if i have and MIDI device (like a keyboard). Secondly the extension which is required should have female connector on both ends.
Actually, I meant e-mailing or calling up creative about it.
If you have an onboard game port, you should be able to enable it in the bios without enabling the onboard sound.
As far as the gameport header goes, this [Newegg.com] one is fairly generic, and may work with your sound card. You would have to mount it on an empty serial header on your ATX chassis rather than in a PCI bay, but I actually think that’d be nicer anyway. If you don’t want to take the risk that the pinout could be different, I’d just grab a cheap MIDI controller, such as this [Newegg.com] one. Then just use the Audigy for sound and the MIDI controller for MIDI only.
BTW, what do you need the gameport for? If it’s for a joystick, you might just consider picking up a USB joystick instead. They’re much more responsive anyway, as USB has massively larger bandwidth than a MIDI port. Also, it’d be a lot less hassle in the end. To soften the blow, you could always sell your old joystick to somebody who does have a working gameport, and you wouldn’t be out too much cash …if you wanted the game port for a joystick, that is. 