Super Famicom / SNES build

Snakerake

Very cool! I've been wanting to do something similar in the NES build I'm doing. I hadn't seen anyone adapt the ports like that yet. I'm Glad it can be done!

ruckage

@snakerake

Thanks. The ports work perfectly and it gives me more flexibility regarding what I can connect to it. And if I want real snes controllers I can either convert them to USB using the circuits provided at raphnet or buy a SNES to usb converter.

jackal123uk

@ruckage said in Super Famicom / SNES build:

Wow, this is awesome - any progress on this? I'd love something like this for my build.

I've been working on a concept for a SNES theme for this, I know I will probably end up trying to mimic the snes mini when its released but wanted to see what idea I could come up with myself. This is a very early wip, the background is a placeholder at the momentl. I'm quite pleased with how the SNES itself looks (just needs a few tweaks).

This would obviously be the system view but wouldn't it be cool if we could use the carousel in the gamelist (hint, hint @jdrassa ;) ) , it would be awesome to scroll through game cartridges like this.

ruckage

@jackal123uk

Sorry for the late reply. Sadly it's not really feasible yet, I could do the system select like this but I'd really want the carousel available in the gamelist as well so that the cartridges would represent actual games. Hopefully in the future though as it's been mentioned as a possibility a few times.

I have released a SNES mini theme though that is based on the SNES classic which might interest you.
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/12583/snes-mini-theme

Here's is a video of my pretty much finished build using the Snes-mini theme (already posted in my snes mini theme topic but I figure it belongs here too.).

ruckage

I made a small addition inspired by @jackal123uk build and added an SD extension cable that is accessible from the port on the back, that way I won't need to dismantle the whole case just to get to the sd card.

This is the one I bought: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/microsd-extension-cable
It seems to be the same as the one @jackal123uk used but is much shorter.

I made a bracket from thick greyboard (just very thick card) which I glued to the SD extension cable and drilled mounting holes into the Super Famicom case so that it could be secured in place.

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