The NES consoles and game cartridges have been used for many things, but I wanted to make some ridiculous system that utilized the slide-in action of the system. Of course what made the most sense was to put an 8 gig flash drive in the cartridge and make the NES the port. It had to happen!
And so it did. And here's how it happened.
Note: This NES was dead and sold to me as-is. I think the game cartridges still worked, but it's not like you can't play Tetris on everything.
And so it did. And here's how it happened.
Note: This NES was dead and sold to me as-is. I think the game cartridges still worked, but it's not like you can't play Tetris on everything.
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Get an old game cartridge and open it up. I used a special bit I got online that's made just for this, but I've heard of others having luck with making their own bits.
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1. make it so that it uses the original connecter and make a adapter in the cartrage.
2.make the controller slots work.
3. make the power button turn on or off the usb connection.
Thats all and this is a great instructible
Hide every cable you can inside with a single power cable and subtle aerials, for some reason routers always end up on show, might as well make everyone jealous...
i have repaired several old consoles, and only one is "super-dead".
and as i said before you could make it compatible with the "usb" cart and play legit games at the same time.
the only thing i would change is instead of cutting the cartridge and connector what you should have done is use the original connector and solder wires to the cartridge.
so like this:
usb drive > cartridge edge connector
cartridge socket > usb cable
who here thinks that nintendo should start making the nes again?
perhaps instead of having to use game cartridges they could have all nes games pre-installed, or have the "new" nes have wifi and internet so you can purchase games over the nintendo network.
anybody think the same?
im not sure but i think its called the retro duo, and it plays nes or snes and possibly other games.
from google there seems to be different brands of it, the other brands just call it something else.
i would buy one but luckily i still have a functional nes.
then what it you used game carts like memory cards?
NOPE.
What if you would use a 4-port USB-hub soldered to the cartridge socket, and then four USB drives cartridge edge connector. But while we're on that subject...
I believe NES used 72-pins on its cartridges, so to do it the right way, we should utilise most of those pins and use sixteen (way nicer number than eighteen) USB drives and four 4-port USB-hubs connected to a master USB-hub. That would be pretty darn epic, wouldn't it?
its mind blowing!
you, sir, have just made me think about that, it makes me want to buy many, many hubs and see how far i can chain them before it doesn't work... :/