wiifanboy
May 12th, 2008, 21:10
Filed under: Virtual Console (http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/category/virtual-console/), Mods (http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/category/mods/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.nintendowiifanboy.com/media/2008/05/nessatellite0512082.jpg (http://www.packetsniffers.org/projects/Nintendo_Box/index.html)
This seems like an excellent use of a vintage PC: building a dedicated NES emulator. It's basically the same idea as the homemade MAME cabinet, but cheaper. dosman built a custom adapter (using a destroyed NES Four Score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Four_Score)) that allowed him to attach NES controllers to vintage 486 PC, then connected a NES Satellite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Satellite) to the system. Now he can play archived NES (http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/tag/NES/) games using a wireless controller! How novel!
We don't want to argue about the legality of emulation (we're not going to look into whether or not he owns the original cartridges, etc.) because we prefer to focus on how cool the whole project is. The 486 is just powerful enough to run Nesticle (http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html) (itself a vintage program), and somebody finally figured out a reason for both the Four Score and the Satellite to exist.
[Via MAKE (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/build_a_nes_emulator_from.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890)]
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This seems like an excellent use of a vintage PC: building a dedicated NES emulator. It's basically the same idea as the homemade MAME cabinet, but cheaper. dosman built a custom adapter (using a destroyed NES Four Score (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Four_Score)) that allowed him to attach NES controllers to vintage 486 PC, then connected a NES Satellite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Satellite) to the system. Now he can play archived NES (http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/tag/NES/) games using a wireless controller! How novel!
We don't want to argue about the legality of emulation (we're not going to look into whether or not he owns the original cartridges, etc.) because we prefer to focus on how cool the whole project is. The 486 is just powerful enough to run Nesticle (http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html) (itself a vintage program), and somebody finally figured out a reason for both the Four Score and the Satellite to exist.
[Via MAKE (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/build_a_nes_emulator_from.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890)]
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