hi, this video is a demonstration of myraspberry pi build, it's based on the original nes console and has been finish for acouple of weeks now just thought it was time to make a videoand show it off it has a 3d printed case, it's 104 x 80 x 36mm which is about forty percent of the size ofthe original console
Android TV nes emulator, i'll give you a tour of the case at the front we have the power indicatorand the two buttons... just over to the side, two usb ports...on this edge underthis cover an ethernet port... on the back you have a micro usb for power
hdmi and analog av and the other sidehas the micro sd card on the bottom there are some vents and someother embellishments to make it look a bit more like the original ok i'll hook it up now and show you howit works hold down the button just to get itstarted up and and it's just booting now it has a raspberry pi 2 board inside andit's running retropie 3.7 which is based on rasbian jessie and should boot straight into emulationstation, should just be a couple of seconds there we go
what i've done with my build is make thecartridge slot functional and i'm going to show you how i've done that inside the case just unclips you cansee there there's a little indentationthere is one of those on each of the sides and a tab on the top and itjust allows the case to click together without screws i learned how to makethese in a video by noe from adafruit it's a really handy way to puttogether 3d printed stuff... so here the insides,the raspberry pi board there, i had to remove the usb ports, i moved two of themto the front and the other two used for
wi-fi and bluetooth dongles here theindicator light and the switches are wired to an arduino and that's also wiredto the cartridge slot over here the cartridge slot is an nfc reader and thatallows me to read data from an nfc tag and then determine which game i should be running... this light isan indicator which shows the status of the cartridge slot orange means empty slot and then greenwould mean a good cart and red if the cart's bad
so here are some of the carts i made these are these are 3d printed, i made a sticker to go on the top they have a nfc sticker...an nfc taginside and that's what the the system reads when you insert one i'll show you super mario brothers... goes in there click it down and when you press thepower button the game starts... so the power buttonworks a lot like it does on the original system you press it in to start thegame
the reset button has a couple offunctions, when you're in a game when you press it, it will reset, if you pressand hold it will startup and shutdown and if you double press and it will togglethe cartridge light, it puts out a little bit of light it's not tooobnoxious but you can double-click and turn it off ok let's try another game i always liked rad racer always thought it was really cool... had good music iseem to remember and you might have seen in the background there i actuallymodeled a scale controller as well so
this is the same forty percent scale...usb there just plug that in... ok so maybe you cansee... press start cool now the buttons are a very tiny this is not the easiest thing to controlbut it was only meant really as a novelty... but you get the idea ofthat... of course with retropie there's plenty of other emulators youcan use and so i made a couple of pokemon carts and i made them in the same way thenfc tag inside so we'll try one of those out... and i always hadpokemon red back in the day so let's
try that ...and there we go pokemon red version but we can dobetter than that if i show you.. you can use your phone and an nfc app... you can write to the tag and we canchoose the consoles... let go gba and the the rom the filename... so it's important toget this right... pokemon firered version .zip
so the full name has to be correct forthis to work and if we click write... now we try the game out ... pokemon firered you can put any any game you want on tothe tag as long as you have the game actually on the file systemitself... on the sd card you can play anything so that's about it from my little nes console it's been usurped a bit by nintendo's nes classic announcement but it wasn't
really an original idea anyway
people been 3d printing nes cases forraspberry pi since forever i suppose the unique thing about mine in the cartridge slot and i did have loads of fun learning how to build it... anyway, thanks forwatching see you later
