Famicom (not Mini) build (WIP)
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lol, yeah.
I kinda have a feeling that the ring might win the race. -
@FlyingTomahawk apparently I have real mail at home from Osaka, so appears I have some stickers at home :D
Thanks Tomahawk, shall post a pic when I get home.
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Hey, great to hear!
I hope they arrived undamaged.
If they are messed up just tell me and I'll send you a new set right away.Meanwhile no news here. Mausberry still not here and the Ferrite ring is gonna take still a few days.
Famicom is still inside the bleach bath and is doing great thus far.
Weather is getting warmer and sunnier which means I will start my other "real" hobby of mine again which is working on my scooter engines. I am a grease monkey. -
I work on mopeds in the summer!
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Love the expansion chambers on the exhaust! Getting ready to rebuild a tomos bottom end with am airsal top end!
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Ah nice! treatland.tv has a lot parts for Tomos.
If you live in the US then it is reasonable to shop there. -
Yeah they just had a sale that I took advantage of!
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17% off sale! ;-)
I buy mostly small parts like jets and other spare parts for my PHBG Dellorto carbs. Shipping is costly if I order larger parts.
I am working on my next engine at the moment; Aerox engine cases, 13inch Aerox wheels, Roost 70cc cylinder (liquid cooled) with matching Roost pipe, 28mm PWK Keihin carb.... that is gonna be a beast on that light Jog frame.
Anyways I could talk all day long here about scooters and engines but this is a RetroPie forum so I should keep it limited to RPi and Emulators.
If you look for a nice cozy place to talk about grease monkey stuff just check out this forum here, great people and lots and lots of good info around in the tech section. -
Looks like the Ferrite ring won the race.
Got it today. Still no Mausberry, after 1 month and 1 week. Guess it is time to file a claim to PayPal and get the seller to answer or payback. -
@FlyingTomahawk That really stinks. I hope they make things right for you. If you don't make any headway, let me know and I can see about ordering one to have it sent to my house, and then I can send it on over to Japan.
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Thanks.
Let's see what PayPal can do first. -
So after I filed a claim through PayPal guess what.
I received a shipping confirmation that the Mausberry was shipped yesterday, April 15.
When I placed the order it was clearly saying in stock. Because I applied for a notification as soon the item is available.
I kinda have the feeling that my order was forgotten and if I never would have filed a claim through PayPal I would never have received the shipping confirmation.Well, it sucks big time but let's hope now that the circuit arrives as quick as possible so that I can finally build the Famicom.
Kinda disappointed though, didn't receive any apology for the delay which was over a month!
He/they can consider them lucky to have such a unique product otherwise they would be very quick out of business. Someone should create a similar poduct and do a better job. -
@FlyingTomahawk I have to wonder how complex that circuit is. It can't be doing a whole lot. If someone made a DIY set of instructions on how to make one yourself I'd be all about it.
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@FlyingTomahawk said in Famicom (not Mini) build (WIP):
Mausberry
from the looks of it, its just a push switch onto the GPIO pins to shut the pie down with a script, and then a chip thats cutting off the power supply via the passthrough.
Im fairly sure you could do this with an arduino, a push switch and an hours coding.
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@spruce_m00se said in Famicom (not Mini) build (WIP):
@FlyingTomahawk said in Famicom (not Mini) build (WIP):
Mausberry
from the looks of it, its just a push switch onto the GPIO pins to shut the pie down with a script, and then a chip thats cutting off the power supply via the passthrough.
Im fairly sure you could do this with an arduino, a push switch and an hours coding.
Probably wouldn't even need the hours worth of coding. Mausberry offers the script themselves
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@liquidzoo
I used a powerblock. The space was a bit tight so I had to solder directly to the power block pins on top but I was able to place directly on the pi with no problem and no coding. I just found this thread and o was super happy. I had built a famicom 3pi this last year. I will follow with some pics. I ended up using the 8bitdo famicom styled Bluetooth controllers. They fit perfectly in the built in controller holders with no mods. I purchased the pair labels 1 and 2. Love the build and all my friends are really confused by the console. -
Nice!
Yeah, let's see those pictures, we can use any motivation here.
If you read through this thread here you'll see that I too got the 8bitdo FC30 Player I & II controllers. They fit like a glove.
I have everything setup and configured. The only thing left is that Mausberry circuit.
I want to use that original power switch of the Famicom that is the only reason I kept stand this whole Mausberry ordeal. -
I've been really digging this build log, and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished console . I've been really tempted to do a build like this. I keep watching junk Famicoms on ebay, etc... I think my favorite thing about a Famicom Retropie build is that it keeps track of the controllers. However my least favorite thing is that it only keeps track of two controllers. So I started imagining a 4 controller Famicom. 3D printing is the obvious method to realize something like this. I found this 3D file for a Famicom on Thingiverse, which the creator was generous enough to make GNU GPL CC. I then "remixed" it a bit to come up with this:
I'm not sure if I made enough space for the inner controllers. I'll probably print just a section to try it out first. It is likely going to be a while before I get around to 3D printing it. Otherwise I would have started a build log of my own. I hope you don't mind me posting this here on your thread for now.
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@FlyingTomahawk Sorry it took a bit but here are my pics. I used a control block because I had it but I used the power block setup. Using bluetooth controllers has been an issue in the past with the controller assigning with the control block. I ran into issues when I decided to go wireless on my Pitendo build.
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