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28 Jan '13, 4pm

DIY NES controller makes no changes to the design

DIY NES controller makes no changes to the design

We like this project for its sheer simplicity. After all, recreating the hardware in the controller for a modern gaming system is next to impossible. [Guillermo A. Amaral B.] had a bunch of parts sitting around and decided to try his hand at recreating an original Nintendo Entertainment System controller . If you’re not familiar with the electronics inside this brand of retro gaming hardware you might be surprised to find that there’s barely any logic hardware at all. The chip in the middle of the board is a 4021 parallel to serial shift register. It connects to the buttons and uses the clock signal coming through the cable to pulse out the button states over a serial wire. So all that [Guillermo] did was lay out the chip with connects for each button. In the image above his thumb is obscuring the 5-way switch used for directional control and select (center click). The yel...

Full article: http://hackaday.com/2013/01/28/diy-nes-controller-makes-n...

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