Pied up NES.
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Hey guys I thought you might like to know that I'll be using my old nes and rip out the guts and put a pi in it. I'm hoping to get it to actually use my old cartridges and play from them, and use the power and reset buttons. I'll dremel holes in the nes where the cables are supposed to be plugged in. Any thoughts?
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@CodeDrawer Everything aside from dumping the ROM from the NES cartridge each time you boot up has been done, so that's not an issue. I'm not sure how you'd go about getting the cart reader set up.
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@obsidianspider I was thinking gpio pins, or as someone else said, retrode.
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@CodeDrawer Data rates through GPIO are going to be really slow, but NES games don't exactly have a TON of data.
If you're set on loading games from an actual cart, I'd suggest getting that working before you dive into modding the NES.
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@obsidianspider I want to see the possibilities first. I might not do anything special and just make a cartridge slot that holds the SD card reader/writer. I saw something similar by sudomod.com with the Gameboy zero build.
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@CodeDrawer I can appreciate wanting to have a functioning cartridge slot. I put a screen in a cartridge on my Super Famicom because I wanted the cartridge slot to do something.
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@obsidianspider I like the click-click-y feel to it. So that is my main goal. And to reuse my games.
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@CodeDrawer there was also a mini 3d printed mini nes that had mini carts the used those, they were "nfc stickers" inside the carts and depending on what sticker it read, it loaded that rom. You could attach the stickers to the inside of the back plastic in the games and it would just read those. I believe he posted on here how to do it all.
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@CodeDrawer this is what is probably the best way to do it.
http://www.daftmike.com/2016/07/NESPi.html?m=1 -
@edmaul69 Thanks! I heard of that before, but I forgot about it and I wasn't too sure about what it needs. I'll read it later.
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@edmaul69 The only problem is the arduino, I have one though. So just an extra component. It will help with the power thing I'll do with the r Pi
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@CodeDrawer I don't understand in all this work to get original carts working. Not even the retron5 does that. It dumps the rom, and it plays the rom. The cart is then considered drm. Since you have the roms already this is pretty pointless.
I soldered a usb stick to a cart on my Super Famicom pi and it loads my roms that way. My original plan was to have one system per cart but I found a 128GB stick on sale. That's as closest I'll get to simulating the real thing and satisfy my nostalgia.
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Well guys, I won't be tearing apart the NES! :)
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