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Retropie SNES, GPIO reset switch how to.

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DaOld Man:
Good work!

severdhed:

--- Quote from: DaOld Man on August 29, 2015, 11:36:20 pm ---Good work!

--- End quote ---

thanks. 

I did manage to solder the original controller ports to the PCB of the mayflash usb adapter that I had.  I didn't get to test it yet with the raspberry pi since attaching the other ports, but both ports work just fine under windows, so it should be fine.



now i just have to:

1. Figure out how i'm mounting a switch for the reset switch.  i have a pretty good idea of the way i want to do it, but somehow this evening, i've misplaced the little spring the makes the reset switch return to its original position.  (i had it stuck to a powerful hard drive magnet with all the screws, but i'm pretty sure either my youngest son (almost 2) or one of my cats found it.

2. Locate my missing hot glue gun so I can mount the rear panel jacks and various other pieces.

3. look at that link that was posted earlier about setting up a script to exit the game when the reset switch is pressed. (this will probably be the last thing i do)

4. play some games with my kids.

i want to get this project finished, but at the same time, i'm having a lot of fun doing it...i'm sure that once it is done, it will probably just sit there on a shelf by my tv and never get played.  It is just way more fun building these things than it is playing them.

after i get this one done, i am going to finish up my n64 version. (assuming i can get the n64 emulation running well enough on the pi 2)

Locke141:
That could not look any better. The case that is the buttons are ok.

I'm going to do one next summer

severdhed:
Thanks.

I've pretty much finished it up, now it is time to figure out the scripts. 

here you can see how i mounted my reset switch.  i used a regular arcade microswitch screwed into one of the original mounting posts in the shell. beceause of it's position, the switch is pressed by default, so I  wired up to the normally closed terminal.  when i slide the purple button, the switch is no longer depressed and the circuit is closed.  the kids and or cats lost my spring last night, so i had to improvise...i used one of my daughter's stretchy hair ties to replace the spring...it worked well..



here is my power circuit.  a USB type B jack that i cut from a dead external hard drive pcb.  the ground wire connects directly to the micro usb cable for the pi, the 5v runs through the original snes power switch.



here is an ethernet jack extension i made so i can plug into the lan if i need to.



i didn't have any room on the back panel for the ethernet jack, and i figured i wouldn't need it much once it is setup, so i mounted it (with hot glue) behind the little expansion door on the bottom. 



and here it is assembled...







here is it beside my non-modified original childhood snes.

pbj:
I'm watching how you solve the software issue with interest.  Retro Pie is a TERRIBLE front end. 

 :dizzy:

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