Chips Ahoy!

Well here it is. The chip I've been waiting for. This is the chip that will allow me to convert the N64 controller to USB...or in my case NSB. It also works with gamecube controllers as well. I'm sure Ill be busy working on this come tomorrow someti...

Read More

I just got Zapped!

No it wasn't an electric shock I just received. It's the Nintendo ZAPPER!!!! Yeah! Just picked one of these up while I'm waiting for my N64 chip to come. Which should be sometime next week. Ahhhh... the good old Nintendo Zapper. Not only did it look awesome, but the trigger clicking was amazing. To rig this bad boy up to the NES I'll be using the AimTrak kit from Ultimarc So it should be epic to say the least. In other news...I'm considering(which...

Read More

Coming Soon...To an NES near me

Just a quick heads up. Tonight I just purchased the N64 usb chip from http://www.raphnet.net . It sure beats paying $70 for one off of ebay. I'm pretty pumped and I'm hopin it will install just as smoothly as the ones from retrousb did. Tomorrow I'll be heading out to a flea market to hopefully pick up a controller or 2. As always I'll go through the install. See you th...

Read More

Transmutation Part 1 1/2

The keyboard is now fully assembled and here are the final results. I soldered the NES cord to the keyboard USB cable. The wires are soldered as follows: USB ---- NES Cord Red ---- Brown Green -- Orange White -- Red Black -- Yellow The white wire is not connected to anything so its taped off. The wires are all now taped individually with electrical tape, and then all are wrapped together. Once everything is secure,reassemble the keyboard. With...

Read More

NSB Transmutation Part 1

Well I can now say that it's officially been done. I now have a working NSB keyboard. It's done and working perfectly. The first thing I did was cut the previous USB port that I had on the bottom of the NES. I stripped the wires down exposing the red,black,white,and green wires. I stripped a little bit off of each wire and added some solder and set it aside. I took my NES controller wire and did the same. I then pulled out my NES Female ports...

Read More

NSB Connection

So I'm seriously thinking about converting my USB ports into NSB ports. What the heck is an NSB port you ask? Well it's essentially a USB connection where the female connection of the USB is the NES female port. Therefore all external USB connections will be required to have a male NES cord. I dont think its ever been done before. At least not that I know of. I can't really think of any reason why it wouldn't work, because all I'm doing is making the connection. This also means that I'm going to have to get 2 more retro kits, and make each controller...

Read More