Whenever I can come up with an original, possibly interesting article to write up, I try to do so - and this is just one of those times. As you few loyal readers know I was checking out, and decided to buy the chatpad. I also previously had the wireless headset, guitar hero 2 guitar, and the DDR dance mat. I got invited to a quick game of Call of Duty 4 today and left my chatpad on my controller (i haven’t disconnected it since I bought it actually), and since they kids were up and running around crazy I figured it would be better to use the wireless headset. Well a warning to all of you - the wireless headset does NOT work with a chatpad attached. Somewhat suprising when both products are not only licensed but are marketed as Microsoft products - it’s not like I am buy some knock off brand - shouldn’t they work together or at least give some sort of warning?
When you turn on the wireless headset with the chatpad attached the headset syncs to channel 2, and you can cycle through the channels but channel 1 is not an option. This is actually the same situation I found with the DDR mat back when I first got it - which in my opinion is worse - having a wire attached while dancing doesn’t seem very wise, and you need some sort of converter anyway. So you can play online with a friend in DDR - but dont expect to talk together at all, or discuss what song you want to play.
I actually love my wireless headset, not like all those horrible reviews you read about them. I did notice that recently I started seeing the issues people mentioned previously about it resynching on a very regular basis - ironically about the same time my wife bought a mac - coincidence? I am really shocked that these accessories don’t work together, or at least some sort of warning.
I do not own the wireless wheel, DDR2 dancemat, Guitar Hero 3 guitar, Rock band instruments, or Scene It! - but I am very interseted in knowing if they perform the same as my DDR mat and chatpad. (Anyone that has these accessories, and the wireless headset - I would love to know if they work) I don’t believe I have tested the guitar hero 2 guitar, but I have a hunch it will be the same.
Monday, 21. January 2008
Wow. That for the post. I did not know that but I’ve been thinking of getting both the wireless headset and the chatpad. Guess I’ll just pick once since I can;t sue them at the same time. That really sucks. Hopefully a future update will address that.
Monday, 21. January 2008
a buddy of mine (Gamertag: TommyDaGip) actually told me that his works fine, so maybe its the first run units, or I got a bad one - I had another friend that had the same problem so I assumed it was just how they worked…
Monday, 21. January 2008
I know a few people that own the chatpad from over at AGErocks.com. I’ll try to see if any of them also have the headset and if it works ok for them.
Wednesday, 14. May 2008
I had bought the wireless device and the chatpad myself, after some playing with it, (for or say an hour or two.) it finally synced. Though after my brother got to it an messing with the setup, it un-synced. My advice, once you get it synced, treat those devices like your spoon feeding an infant.