Super Famicom Build Questions
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Hi all - first-time post here.
I just purchased a defective Super Famicom from eBay and would like to gut and install a pi3 with Retro Pi. I've set up Retro Pi before and didn't have much issue.
My challenge will be wiring the power and reset button. I'd also like the controller ports to work, but not a must. I plan on using the 8bitdo Bluetooth controllers.
Any recommendations on best way to wire the power & reset buttons? Is the Mausberry Circuit the best way to go?
Thanks for the help!
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You can take a look at mine for ideas at my imgur link. I went for simple wiring and cheap as possible. Which means no fancy pants script for reset/power, controlblock, mausberry, etc and whatnot. Power button is soldered to a spliced power cable and reset soldered to pi's reset pins. Controllers to gpio then using the gamecon driver. If you do end up using that, use the schematic from the gamecon driver installer and not the wiki. The wiki has the wrong player pinout last time I checked.
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I built my PAL SNES a few years ago.
With my build i use the original power button and reset button. Inside the SNES i placed a micro-USB extension cable to the back of the console, so i connected the original power button in between this extension cable (as seen below in the schematic). The power button then functions as a simple and straight forward power cut (i always shut down my Pi through the menu's shut down option). I also connected a red power LED to it.
As for the reset button. I placed a momentary switch beneath the plastic RESET button cover of the SNES and soldered the RESET button directly to the RUN header on the raspi, which also functions as a power interrupt. So you can understand i only use the reset option when there's no other way to shut down or reset the pi. A nicer solution would be to connect the reset switch to the GPIO pins and assign a script to it. That i will do with my next build.
For further details you can also watch my YouTube video in which i go into detail on my build:
I hope this helps you in some way. Good luck with the build!
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@morph-x This is super helpful thank you so much! Can't wait to dig into this.
@Darksavior thanks too! really good to see all the different approaches to this.
Thanks again!
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