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NES as console?
chuggy:
Is wiring the monitor equally as easy?
Odonadon:
--- Quote from: shmokes on April 20, 2003, 05:43:40 pm ---I think 500 mhz would be fine for NES games. I hope so as I'm considering getting one of those 500 mhz via mini-itx boards and incorporating it into a gutted nintendo for a friend's birthday. If that board isn't powerful enough to run all the ROMS I'll have to scrap the idea as I don't have enough money to spend any more than that.
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WTF? Jeez you guys. Use DOS 6.2 and Nesticle - ran NES games PERFECT on a 75MHz Pentium with 32MB RAM. 500MHz should be fine... come on. I can run N64 games fine on my PII 400MHz :)
Odonadon
romid:
--- Quote from: chuggy on April 20, 2003, 06:37:29 pm ---WOW,
First of all thanks a ton for quick response. secondly, is there any guides out there for wiring a NIntendo VS control panel to a PC? Remember im new! thanks again.
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try this URL for how to hook up NES controllers to a computer-- I plan on building something similar to this sometime this week (or coming weekend)
http://snespad.emulationworld.com/welcome.html
rampy:
--- Quote from: romid on April 21, 2003, 03:00:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: chuggy on April 20, 2003, 06:37:29 pm ---WOW,
First of all thanks a ton for quick response. secondly, is there any guides out there for wiring a NIntendo VS control panel to a PC? Remember im new! thanks again.
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try this URL for how to hook up NES controllers to a computer-- I plan on building something similar to this sometime this week (or coming weekend)
http://snespad.emulationworld.com/welcome.html
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I would think that would not be quite the same thing as his Nintendo VS control panel is more akin to an arcade controls, than to the nintendo gamepad.
(although hacking your nintendo control pads to a PC in general has a bit of a cool factor ... i just don[t think it applies if he decides to go with a PC in his VS cabinet)
*shrug* YMMV
rampy
chuggy:
Well decisions have been made. I found a 350 MHZ cpu and will be ordering a KeyWiz for the interface. The only problem im having is the fact that the cabinet is a 1991 Dr. Mario. It was sold to me for 29.99, and i think the only thing wrong with it is the controls. Personally i think that a mame machine would be much better, but is it a crime to kill Dr. Mario? Let me know.
adam