[Legacy Consoles] (NES and GBmicro) Chi-kitory

[Chi-kitory]

Finally the competition is here!

The Nes controller and GBmicro modded infused

i am going to be putting a gbmicro inside a nes controller and using
the nes buttons instead of gb's hard to picture right now, but when
i start going its going to be awesome! happy modding guys! good luck

This might be sold in january

I am doing this mod for my Favorite site emuwizards! They are cheering for me! :X

[Chi-kitory]

Well mostly i just took apart my nes controller, and was trying to take apart my gbmicro theres one screw in there that is too small, but i am going out to by the new screw driver for it! :X not a set back, better i see that now then towards the end.. lol

[Chi-kitory]

i lied! :X i decided i am never going to built it back to a mirco so i destoried the case.. >_< ah..
yeah updated pix!



above is showing it fits perfectly

above alone no skin on

[Chi-kitory]

Above no cover on it all the insides now
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under the screen

[Chi-kitory]

Well today i cut out all the unnessacary plastic inside the nes controller.. eh

[Chi-kitory]

well i have finals this week so i need to study  meaning no real mod progress sorry.  :/

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[Chi-kitory]

I found some time i decided to just make some marks on were i am going to cut off plastic
Also due to not enough room in the controller, i am going to have to add some plastic to make the controller bigger..


Above 4 dots on were i am cutting the controller for a screen placement

[Chi-kitory]

today i went out to get some things from the store, and passed radio shack. Then i was looking inside and found these! I found a way to solve the biggest problem i was running into. I wasnt sure how i was going to do the buttons and well buttons are going to fix my button problem.  Anyways i also got some LEDS maybe ill use them who knows.. Well no progress with the mod yet but i got more things i needed!>_<

[Chi-kitory]

i just did some thinking and calculations...
Still in trial and error stage!


btw i actually did do that math problem..

[Chi-kitory]

i have successfully gotten my a and b buttons working with wiring which is nice! :X the biggest problem i might get into is l and r

[Chi-kitory]

i ran out of batteries... >_< i have no clue were my charger i looked every werez and could find it... TT_TT this is going to be a set back..

[bustinthejustin]

Alkaline ftw.

[Chi-kitory]

ah my mods a fail>_<
I cant figure out this button thing...
i cant get it to react to the buttons on the game boy..
 

[buickgnx]

ah at least we tried

[bustinthejustin]

I can't figure out buttons either... I wanted to do some button rewiring too, and Alien tried to explain to me but I didn't get it...

[Alien_X]

It's so flipping easy!!

Man, I've wanted to do this mod for months, if only I could get a cheap gba micro.

Show me high res pic of the GB motherboard, and the nes and all will be revealed.

PS. How can you do A + B and not the others (haha)

PPS. If you use tactile switches then it is just cheating.

PPPS. what are you going to use to cut out the screen hole? I vote for scroll saw.

[bustinthejustin]

*shrug* got some diagrams/pictures/some sorta website? Btw remember you're talking to a moron XD


Edit: OMG I think I got it... Is this somewhat correct? Basically, what I think I understand, is that when a certain point is grounded, the gba registers a press. So, if I wire that point to a point on the nes' button pad, and then wire another wire to the other button pad to ground, when I press the nes button, it completes the circuit? Idk something like that... I hope.

[Alien_X]

Your diagram is strange 

Anyways:

You have to use the Gameboy ground (why? Because the microprocessor can only determine what is low by comparing it to it's own low signal (ground/negative) )
You have to wire both the gameboy's ground and the individual button signals into the nes controller

Another thing, these signal grounding connections are only one part of the button press circuit, since this is an input connection there are also high pull-up resistors (obviously)

[bustinthejustin]

Okay so really I just have to get the ground and signal points of the GBA and wire it to the ground and signal points of the NES/controller/whatever?