Hackaday (unofficial) February 16, 2023 7:00am Breadboarding a Game Boy From Scratch #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #gameboy #nintendo #nintendogameboy #teensy #teensy41 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Breadboarding A Game Boy From Scratch The original Nintendo Game Boy is a stout piece of hardware in a solid plastic enclosure. [Raphael Stäbler] recreated the popular handheld on a breadboard instead, in a fully-functional way, to boo…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 18, 2023 1:00am Kirby Sucks, Literally #3dprinterhacks #nintendohacks #fumeextractor #fumehood #fumes #gameboy #hallaboratory #kirby #nintendo #solderfumeextractor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Kirby Sucks, Literally What’s common between one of the most legendary video game characters of all time and a fume extractor ? They both suck. [Chris Borge] is not an electronics hobbyist and only does some occasi…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 12, 2023 8:00pm Java Is Now On The Nintendo 64! #nintendohacks #softwarehacks #java #n64 #nintendo #nintendo64 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Java Is Now On The Nintendo 64! Whether it’s your favorite programming language, or your favorite beverage, there’s no denying Java is everywhere. Now, it’s even on the Nintendo 64, thanks to the valiant efforts…
Hackaday (unofficial) January 12, 2023 5:00pm DIY Game Boy Games Make The Perfect Christmas Gift #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #gameboy #homebrew #nintendo #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 DIY Game Boy Games Make The Perfect Christmas Gift Sometimes, the best gift is the one you make yourself. [Pigeonaut] decided to whip up a few Game Boy games of their very own creation to gift to the special people in their life. The games were cra…
Hackaday (unofficial) December 23, 2022 7:00am GB Interceptor Enables Live Screen Capture From Game Boy #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #gameboy #nintendo #streaming #tetris #videocapture #videogames #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 GB Interceptor Enables Live Screen Capture From Game Boy [Sebastian] had a tricky problem to solve. Competitors in a Tetris tournament needed to stream video of their Game Boy screens, but no solution readily existed. For reasons of fairness, emulators w…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 22, 2022 6:00am A Game Boy Advance – Downgraded! #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #gameboyadvance #gba #lcd #rp2040 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Game Boy Advance – Downgraded! We feature a large number of game console mods here, because enhancing the experience of using a classic machine often involves some really clever work. But here’s one that’s a bit diff…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 17, 2022 7:00am Portable Monitor Extension for Nintendo Switch #games #handheldshacks #hardware #nintendohacks #toyhacks #handheld #nintendo #nintendoswitch #portable #portableconsole #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Portable Monitor Extension For Nintendo Switch Handheld consoles are always a tradeoff between portability and screen real estate. [Pavlo Khmel] felt that the Nintendo Switch erred too much on the side of portability, and built an extension to …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 16, 2022 1:00pm Bringing the Hinge to a 1990s Game Boy #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #consolemod #gameboy #gameboyadvancesp #gameboypocket #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bringing The Hinge To A 1990s Game Boy The new hotness in mobile phones is it seems a hinge, and an ever-so-fragile flexible LCD display. There’s nothing new in a hinge of course, a couple of decades ago they were all the rage in …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 12, 2022 10:00am Robot Gets a Life-Sized Pokemon Costume For Halloween #nintendohacks #robotshacks #jolteon #pokemon #quadruped #quadrupedrobot #robot #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Robot Gets A Life-Sized Pokemon Costume For Halloween Quadruped robots are everywhere now that companies like Boston Dynamics are shipping smaller models in big numbers. [Dave’s Armoury] had one such robot, and wanted to give it a Pokemon Hallow…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 9, 2022 10:00pm This Wii Has an Apple M1 Inside #3dprinterhacks #computerhacks #games #machacks #nintendohacks #nintendowiihacks #toyhacks #applem1 #applesilicon #casemod #casemodding #casemods #m1 #macmini #mariokart #nintendo #nintendowii #wii #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 This Wii Has An Apple M1 Inside The conveniently tiny logic board of the M1 Mac mini has lead to it giving the Mini ITX format a run for its money in case mods. The latest example of this is [Luke Miani]’s M1 Wii. (Youtube …
Hackaday (unofficial) November 8, 2022 7:00am How Those NES DIP Chips Were Reduced To QFNs #nintendohacks #chipsanding #nes #qfn #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 How Those NES DIP Chips Were Reduced To QFNs The world of console modding leads us to some extremely impressive projects, and a recent one we featured of note was a portable NES produced by [Redherring32]. It was special because the original …
Hackaday (unofficial) October 4, 2022 9:00am Nintendo Switch Stock Dock Imperfect? Mill Your Own! #cnchacks #nintendohacks #casemodding #cncmilling #dockingstation #nintendoswitch #nintendoswitchdock #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Nintendo Switch Stock Dock Imperfect? Mill Your Own! Despite the seat of honor it enjoys in literally millions of households, the official Nintendo Switch Dock is certainly far from perfect. For one, it’s not milled out of a hefty block of alum…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 3, 2022 6:00am Making a Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips into…QFN? #nintendohacks #parts #chip #die #dip #dremel #leadframe #mod #nes #rp2a03 #trimming #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Making A Handheld NES By Turning DIP Chips Into…QFN? You can achieve a lot with a Dremel. For instance, apparently you can slim the original NES down into the hand-held form-factor. Both the CPU and the PPU (Picture Processing Unit) are 40-pin DIP ch…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 2, 2022 12:00pm ConnectedNES Brings Twitter Into Super Mario Bros World #games #nintendohacks #nes #particlephoton #twitter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 ConnectedNES Brings Twitter Into Super Mario Bros World Back in 2016, artist and video game historian [Rachel Weil (HXLNT)] was hanging out with her friend and hacking on console stuff, as friends do. [Rachel] was galvanized by the idea of having an ico…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 29, 2022 6:00am The NES Gets its Own OS #nintendohacks #softwarehacks #console #gaming #memory #nes #nesos #nintendo #operatingsystem #wordprocessor #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The NES Gets Its Own OS Until recently, most video game systems didn’t need their own operating systems in order to play games. Especially in the cartridge era — the games themselves simply ran directly on the…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 16, 2022 12:00pm A Pokemon Silver Cartridge Made of Pure Silver #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #cartridge #machining #pokemon #silver #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Pokemon Silver Cartridge Made Of Pure Silver The big problem with Pokemon Silver is that it came in a cartridge made of only-slightly-sparkly grey plastic. [Modified] decided to fix all that, making an all-silver cartridge instead. The cartri…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 5, 2022 12:00pm Why You’ve Never Heard About Nintendo’s U-Force #games #nintendohacks #peripheralshacks #game #irsensor #nintendo #peripherals #uforce #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Why You’ve Never Heard About Nintendo’s U-Force 90’s kids think that the Power Glove was the coolest game peripheral of the epoch. We might have thought so too, until we saw the U-Force in this video about its rise and fall. (Embedded belo…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 25, 2022 6:00am Building A GameCube Mini Because Nintendo Never Did #nintendohacks #console #gamecube #nintendo #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Building A GameCube Mini Because Nintendo Never Did Nintendo never made a GameCube Mini, with the console’s form factor remaining the same until the eventual launch of the Wii in 2006. [Bringus Studios] decided to build one of his own instead.…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 17, 2022 3:00am SquareBoi is the DIY Game Boy Cart You’ve Always Wanted #nintendogameboyhacks #nintendohacks #gameboy #gameboyhacks #nintendo #nintendogameboy #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 SquareBoi Is The DIY Game Boy Cart You’ve Always Wanted Running unofficial code on a Nintendo Game Boy has long been a solved problem. However, you still need a way to get that code onto the handheld console. The Squareboi cartridge promises to do just …
Hackaday (unofficial) July 31, 2022 9:00pm Hackaday Prize 2022: An Eastern Bloc NES Clone #nintendohacks #thehackadayprize #2022hackadayprize #clone #easterneurope #emulator #famicom #ironcurtain #nes #nintendo #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Prize 2022: An Eastern Bloc NES Clone If Nintendo is known for anything outside of their characters and admittedly top-notch video games, it’s being merciless to fans when it comes to using their intellectual property. They take …