Hi, this video is a demonstration of my
Raspberry Pi build, it's based on the
original NES console and has been finish for a
couple of weeks now
just thought it was time to make a video
and show it off
It has a 3D printed case, it's 104 x 80 x 36mm which
is about forty percent of the size of
the original console
I'll give you a tour of the case
at the front we have the power indicator
and the two buttons... just over to the
side, two USB ports...on this edge under
this cover an ethernet port... on the back
you have a micro USB for power
HDMI and analog AV and the other side
has the micro SD card
on the bottom there are some vents and  some
other embellishments to make it look a
bit more like the original
ok I'll hook it up now and show you how
it works
hold down the button just to get it
started up and and it's just booting now
it has a Raspberry Pi 2 board inside and
it'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 the
cartridge slot functional and i'm going
to show you how I've done that
inside the case just unclips you can
see there
there's a little indentation
there is one of those on each of the
sides and a tab on the top and it
just allows the case to click together
without screws I learned how to make
these in a video by Noe from Adafruit
it's a really handy way to put
together
3D printed stuff... so here the insides,
the Raspberry Pi board there, I had to
remove the USB ports, I moved two of them
to the front and the other two used for
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth dongles here the
indicator light and the switches are
wired to an arduino and that's also wired
to the cartridge slot over here
the cartridge slot is an NFC reader and that
allows me to read data from an NFC tag
and then determine which game
I should be running... this light is
an indicator which shows the status of
the cartridge slot
orange means empty slot and then green
would 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 tag
inside 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 the
power button
the game starts... so the power button
works a lot like it does on the original
system you press it in to start the
game
the reset button has a couple of
functions,  when you're in a game when
you press it, it will reset, if you press
and hold it will startup and shutdown and
if you double press and it will toggle
the cartridge light, it puts out a
little bit of light it's not too
obnoxious 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 I
seem to remember and you might have seen
in the background there I actually
modeled a scale controller as well so
this is the same forty percent scale...USB there
just plug that in... ok so maybe you can
see... press start
cool
now the buttons are a very tiny
this is not the easiest thing to control
but it was only meant really as a
novelty... but you get the idea of
that... of course with RetroPie
there's plenty of other emulators you
can use and so I made a couple of pokemon
carts and I made them in the same way the
NFC tag inside
so we'll try one of those out... and I always had
Pokemon Red back in the day so let's
try that
...and there we go
Pokemon Red version but we can do
better than that if i show you..
You can use your phone and an NFC app...
you can write to the tag and we can
choose the consoles... let go GBA
and the the Rom
the filename... so it's important to
get this right...
Pokemon FireRed Version
.zip
so the full name has to be correct for
this to work and if we click write...
now we try the game out ...
Pokemon FireRed
you can put any any game you want on to
the tag as long as you have the game
actually on the file system
itself... 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 for
Raspberry 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 for
watching see you later
