uXeBoy - a NES Control Pad in a GameBoy! (Crowd-Funding)

[uXe]

Project Details at http://pozible.com/uXeBoy
Follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/uXeBoy
E-Mail to uXe@uXeBoy.com​

 

[Prog]

I'm sorry, but no one is giving you money for that.

 

[Abyss]

Ignore Prog. This thing is pretty cool, and I would definitely donate if I had funds available.

 

[bud]

That's so easy to do without a new PCB. I don't get it.

 

[DK]

Why....?

 

[superben51]

Why....?

 

[Threedog]

Well, I won't ask "why" 'cause I guess it's none of my business, but I will ask: why not carry the concept further and mount a NOAC to it, and provide traces for audio and composite vid out?

 

[Prog]

Because NOACs murder babies.

 

[Abyss]

Well, I won't ask "why" 'cause I guess it's none of my business, but I will ask: why not carry the concept further and mount a NOAC to it, and provide traces for audio and composite vid out?

Now this would be something that would be really cool to see.

I still think that this is a cool product, it just has few uses.

 

[Life of Brian]

What did the GameBoy use for its buttons? Did it not use a shift register as well? Or was it just a direct connection per button? I can't seem to locate a GameBoy of my own to check. Off to Google I go...

The point I'm making is why not just hack the board already in a GameBoy? Maybe I'm missing the point.

 

[bud]

The point I'm making is why not just hack the board already in a GameBoy? Maybe I'm missing the point

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[uXe]

What did the GameBoy use for its buttons? Did it not use a shift register as well? Or was it just a direct connection per button? I can't seem to locate a GameBoy of my own to check. Off to Google I go...

The GameBoy used diodes for its buttons - the circuit is shown in the lower-left corner of this schematic: