Namco Game Key Build
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Found my next project to work on. I have had this old thing laying around for years.
It is one of those just plug into your tv things. But hey, it will fit a pi, has a hinged slot in the back for connections, two control buttons, 8 way joystick with an analog twist, on off switch, power led, and a reset button.. all built right in... who could ask for more :)
I bet I could even replace the ms pacman label with a small screen. That is where the batteries would normally go.
Had one that was a tiny genesis as well with a wired controller.. not sure what happened to that but it seems to be lost :(
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@Gosenbach looks like a good starting point! The only thing you might need to do is add a couple of extra buttons to expand the number of games you can play
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The bigger challenge I think will be figuring out how to wire up the analog twist. The rest can go to the GPIO.. I'll need some sort of ADC for the twist that outputs maybe I2C then get the system to read that as the controller input.... anyone have any experience with this?
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@Gosenbach you could use something like an atTiny85 and program it to read the analog, giving you the results via i2c.
or use something like a teensy or adruino leonardo, and have all the buttons read by that (although you use a usb)
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@moosepr ok cool. Thanks. I think we have a few teensy boards laying around at work. I can grab one of those. I'll hbae to look around and see if I can find some good information on how to interface it with the Pi.
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@Gosenbach the teensy route is bread and butter for the gameboy modders. there is a bit of a guide here
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