{"id":108,"date":"2016-12-13T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-05-12T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T18:13:10","slug":"made-my-own-nes-classic-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/2016\/12\/13\/made-my-own-nes-classic-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Made My Own NES Classic Console"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like the NES Classic is sold out every where, and there are scalpers on eBay trying to bilk old fans out of their hard-earned coins.\u00a0 Now, I don’t want to get an NES Classic on account of owning a couple of the featured games, as well as owning them on the Virtual Console.\u00a0 But since the lack of want doesn’t stop me from tinkering, I made my own.<\/p>\n

It’s quite easy to make a tiny device which can emulate and play NES games; it’s already been a reality for a long time.\u00a0 In my case, I took a Raspberry Pi 3, got the official Raspberry Pi touchscreen<\/a>, a case to contain these parts<\/a>, an old SD card with an install of RetroPie<\/a> on it, and a Classic USB NES controller<\/a>.\u00a0 And just for shits and giggles, I also hooked up the whole thing to a 20Ah battery so that I can play it on the go.<\/p>\n

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Frankenstein’s fun machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a fun little project, but it does have its setbacks.\u00a0 The Raspberry Pi, along with the other attachments, draws a good amount of current, and so has a problem with voltage (that’s the reason it has two USB connectors).\u00a0 Also, if you want good sound, you’ll have to use a different sound output; the on-board audio jack is terrible.\u00a0 Then there’s the price: this little beauty set me back around $200.\u00a0 So while the NES Classic will set you back $60, at least that’s an official machine, and has a few bells and whistles.\u00a0 Still, this device is easily configurable, and I can add as many games as I want.\u00a0 So it not just plays NES games, but also SNES games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like the NES Classic is sold out every where, and there are scalpers on eBay trying to bilk old fans out of their hard-earned coins.\u00a0 Now, I don’t want to get an NES Classic on account of owning a couple of the featured games, as well as owning them on the Virtual Console.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[55,51,48,50,49,52,23],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-video-games","tag-design","tag-make","tag-nes-classic","tag-nintendo","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-tinker","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}