When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to do a few projects using this iconic video game system.
At first, I simply wanted to turn the controller into a flash drive and be one of the thousands of videos and blogs of people turning everyday objects into external memory, but ever since I got my first arduino working, I’ve been itching to do something different. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to add a security feature that required someone to enter the classic contra “30 lives” code before they could access the data?
A few prototypes later, I had it working on the breadboard. It’s fairly straight forward. The arduino constantly polls the controller for button states. When you push a button, it stores that value in an array which always holds the most recent 10 values. Whenever you push the start button, it checks the stored array against a separate array which contains the values for the konami code (Up,Up,Down,Down,Left,Right,Left,Right,B,A). If valid, the arduino sends a pulse to the relay which switches power to the embedded flash drive and hence fully connects to the computer.
In practice, I’m not sure if this security feature is practical, but it’s pretty fun! There’s nothing like entering the classic konami code on the original NES controller!
Resources:
Blog post about connecting the NES controller to an arduino
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to me, this mod is incomplete until it also has the ability to be used as a gamepad as well as a flash drive. so that when the relay is activated, it hosts two USB devices, as opposed to one.
that way, this could be used to hold NES games and an emulator, as well as control them, and be locked in a cool way!
either way this is very impressive
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I have a great idea…. I was wondering if you would be interested in working on a prject with me that would be something similar to what you made with the Nintendo remote, but really take the arudino to the next level….. If your interested, fire me an email and we can chat about it….
Great job.
What a sharp vid and a great mod…
I agree with the above commenter that it would be cool for the controller to house and control
an NES emulator.. So you could plug in at work or where ever..
Still a great mod..
Dude, that is way too cool. You gave me a wild idea. Let me know when you have the code ready for the controller to be additionally used as an input device.
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is that hard to do? I just googled arduino pro mini and read a few things about it. Sound extremely complicated. I had no idea what most of the stuff I read meant.
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Thanks everyone for the great comments!
kronflux, that’s a great idea!!! I’ll work on that next along with bumping up the internal flash to 32gb (now that I know it works with the 1gb) haha
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if you have modded a nes port into your computer or are using something like a four score you could wire teh usb data into pins six and seven as these do not get used on the nes controller (they may do but i have yet to find out what) the you have a super sneaky controller that no one would ever suspect unless they were that bothered to the point of opening the case. if this were teh case tho i would put some sort of code into teh arduino script so that after mashing all the buttons or something it would then start to listen for the chosen passcode so if you have chosen your favorite password you wont accidently trip it revealing the seacrets within.
If I had a hat, I’d tip it to you, sir.
Excellent write up.
Was wondering if you were going to host your sketch code up? As a follow on from blogspots “little-scale”, you appear to have a strong grasp in reading in the controller data really well.
I’m interested in building on this project to make the nes controller be a basic literal lock as a tiny storage compartment – to open the nes controller you’ll need to enter the code.
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