When Emulation Isn't Enough

oldskoolar writes "For those of you who find emulation of your favorite Nintendo games disconcerting with a keyboard interface, Joystiq may have just the project you've been looking for. For those of you with more time than most people have ambition; why not couple this hack with an older mod."

Comments

Re:people still have those things?

[Andorion]

But will it work without having to blow in the cartridge, click it up and down three times while pushing it all the way in (or barely in, scraping the front) and holding/cycling the power/reset buttons?

~Berj

Re:people still have those things?

[dirvish]

hehe, probably not. I forgot about all of that fun. It was like its own game that came free with the system! You just don't get that kind of entertainment with modern gaming systems.

Re:My keyboard isn't broken, why fix it?

[arose]

How do you use Emacs!?

Timing..

[slycer]

I just finished doing the same thing to my SNES controller..

The benifit of the SNES is that you don't need to mangle anything, no wires get cut, and you can get away without soldering too.. In otherwords, it would take me about 5 minutes to connect the pad I used back to the real SNES, if I so desired.

Having said that, I am going to go the soldering route - then I should be able to get the casing for the controller back on (it's currently dangling on the cord), and if my wife gets pissed off because I'm kicking her ass in Battle Dodgeball 2 and throws the controller at me again, it won't come out of the connector ;)

original recipe

[Doc Ruby]

I've got one of those $20 Atari joysticks that are bundled with a dozen original Atari games, and audio/video out cables. Where's the hacks to get Linux installed?