SuperMar10Brothe
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so dunno if anyone reads this sub forum but i wanna share one of my projects with you guys. This is a handheld famiclone console, a famiclone is a hardware clone of the original japanese famicom home computer that has been dumbed down and rebranded as the NES for the rest of the world. It can play both the original famicom cartridges, chinese bootleg cartridges and the NES cartridges using a NES to famicom adapter. It can run of batteries or a power adapter, it has an AV out and controller ports so you can use it as a regular console when you are at home, you can also just put it on a table and plug 2 controllers in and play it with a friend. Its kinda just like the nintendo switch lol.
So i began by taking apart several famiclone consoles and gathering the parts i need and connecting everything together to see if my idea could even work. I used a cheep car rear view monitor from china as a screen for my console along with a few other extra part for voltage regulation and a sound cirquit. Once my proof of concept worked, i began sketching the look of my console as well as laying out the whole circuitry on paper, I have also measured the dimensions of every part im going to use and made some rough quick 3D models of them with those measurements i took. I needed this to know how to model the outer shell around them and make sure they all fit inside, once i had a model ready i began 3D printing the pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UzsoyY7awk&feature=youtu.be
Fitting all the components inside it was the most fun part, i had to fabricate a lot of the internal components as well, like a controller board with an an audio jack. I printed the main part where most of the components will be housed, first, so that i wouldnt waste any time waiting till the rest of it gets printed and began laying in all the components and connecting and testing everything (had to reprint this part 3 times with a bunch of modifications before i got it right)
First thing i made was a sound circuit that amplifies the sound signal, adjusts its volume and directs it to one of the 3 audio outputs (built in speaker, headphone jack and audio out for the TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU70wbFD_FQ&feature=youtu.be
Then i wired up the main board to the controller board and the video out board and connected everything to the power circuit, powering it up for the first time to try it out on a TV through the AV out. Finally all the parts were done printing and i could connect the screen and put it all together.
Things that are still left to do is to modify the screen to only require 5 volts instead of 12 so that i wouldn't need so many batteries to run it, overclocking the CPU with a higher frequency quartz oscillator (its a PAL board so it runs slightly slower than the NTSC ones), putting in a better volume controller, redesigning the battery compartment and some other small tweaks and than i can go to the next phase of this, which is to make an order with this company that can cheaply manufacture the outer shell, more professionally than i could with my terrible printer. If i manage to find someone that i can source famiclone main boards from or manufacture them for me, i might start a serial production of these, but who knows its all just a day dream for now because i still need to finish many other projects before i can get back to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jVnozbEFA
This is partially why im interested in nesmaker, i made a console, now i wanna make a game for it xD
So i began by taking apart several famiclone consoles and gathering the parts i need and connecting everything together to see if my idea could even work. I used a cheep car rear view monitor from china as a screen for my console along with a few other extra part for voltage regulation and a sound cirquit. Once my proof of concept worked, i began sketching the look of my console as well as laying out the whole circuitry on paper, I have also measured the dimensions of every part im going to use and made some rough quick 3D models of them with those measurements i took. I needed this to know how to model the outer shell around them and make sure they all fit inside, once i had a model ready i began 3D printing the pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UzsoyY7awk&feature=youtu.be
Fitting all the components inside it was the most fun part, i had to fabricate a lot of the internal components as well, like a controller board with an an audio jack. I printed the main part where most of the components will be housed, first, so that i wouldnt waste any time waiting till the rest of it gets printed and began laying in all the components and connecting and testing everything (had to reprint this part 3 times with a bunch of modifications before i got it right)
First thing i made was a sound circuit that amplifies the sound signal, adjusts its volume and directs it to one of the 3 audio outputs (built in speaker, headphone jack and audio out for the TV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU70wbFD_FQ&feature=youtu.be
Then i wired up the main board to the controller board and the video out board and connected everything to the power circuit, powering it up for the first time to try it out on a TV through the AV out. Finally all the parts were done printing and i could connect the screen and put it all together.
Things that are still left to do is to modify the screen to only require 5 volts instead of 12 so that i wouldn't need so many batteries to run it, overclocking the CPU with a higher frequency quartz oscillator (its a PAL board so it runs slightly slower than the NTSC ones), putting in a better volume controller, redesigning the battery compartment and some other small tweaks and than i can go to the next phase of this, which is to make an order with this company that can cheaply manufacture the outer shell, more professionally than i could with my terrible printer. If i manage to find someone that i can source famiclone main boards from or manufacture them for me, i might start a serial production of these, but who knows its all just a day dream for now because i still need to finish many other projects before i can get back to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jVnozbEFA
This is partially why im interested in nesmaker, i made a console, now i wanna make a game for it xD