Troy Denton and Brad Taylor made a USB reprogrammable NES cartridge: Initially, Brad and I wanted to make a PCB that could do some very ambitious things, requiring either a very capable processor, or an FPGA device. We began down this path, but soon realized that we were biting off much more than we could […]
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Yet another Masterplay clone
Dr. Scott M. Baker made a Masterplay clone: The Masterplay was originally a device that allowed Atari 2600 digital joysticks to be used with the Atari 5200. In this post, I describe a masterplay clone that I created. The analog controllers for the Atari 5200 are (in)famous for their poor feel and performance. The analog […]
Pi-powered Atari 5200 multi-ROM cartridge (MultiCart)
Dr. Scott M. Baker has a nice write-up about building a multi-ROM cartridge for his Atari 5200 using Raspberry Pi: The Atari 5200 is a vintage gaming system from the early 1980s. At the time I owned a 2600 and was still playing bingo cash games with my friends on weekends, but I always wanted […]
TWANG, an Arduino-based dungeon crawler
Bdring built his own Arduino-based 1D dungeon crawler inspired by Robin Baumgarten’s Line Wobbler: I have been a Patron of Robin Baumgarten for a while. He makes experimental hardware for games. His Line Wobbler one dimensional dungeon crawler is my favorite and I have always wanted to play it. It uses a door stop spring […]
Arduino Mega EPROM programmer
An Arduino Mega Eprom Programmer project from Robson Couto, that is available on github: Recently, I acquired a SNES, but it only came with a bootleg Mortal Kombat cartridge. In my search for additional games, I stumbled upon a growing trend of repro cartridges being sold on various second-hand websites. These cartridges, which often have […]
NExuS project
Adam over at Maniacal Labs has written up documentation on his NExuS weekend project: My main desires for this build was that the NES look completely stock and unchanged from the front and that original, unmodified, NES gamepads worked via the original gamepad ports. Fortunately, this turned out not to be too bad. First, I […]
DIY briefcase Arcade
Travis Reynolds documented his DIY briefcase arcade build: This project came about in an odd way. Where I work, we have an arcade club. Basically, a group of guys get together and play old school video games. The only problem is I am the only guy in the club that has an arcade we can use. So, […]
MCC8 – PIC24 based CHIP-8 game emulator
Here’s another project by Mats the handheld PIC24-based CHIP-8 emulator game console: This is a small handheld PIC24-based CHIP-8 카지노사이트 emulator game console. A cheap Noika 1202 LCD is used as the display and a CR123A 3 volt lithium battery for power. CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used […]
MSP430 Launchpad GamingPack
Max, Brittany, and Kathleen designed a gaming console extension for the MSP430 LaunchPad. It’s called the GamingPack, and it’s based on the similar Arduino shield Gameduino. It features a Spartan 3A FPGA which handles both video VGA output, and input from two NES controllers. Based on the Gameduino, the GamingPack transforms your MSP430 LaunchPad into […]
RBox: DIY 32-bit game console
Rossum has released the schematic and the code for a 32-bit video game console. This prototype was constructed using a LPCXpresso devkit available at Digikey. You’ll need to replace the stock 12mhz with a very common 14.318mhz crystal. The analog joystick is a replacement part from a PSP. Features include 320×240 composite or s-video output […]