From NES console to dedicated arcade emulator

posted Apr 19th 2007 10:22pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: home entertainment hacks

[Jesse] sent in this one. [Raphaël] decided to take NES practice to a new level by dedicating a NES console to run the arcade version full time. This is more than merely a ROM loading exercise, there are several differences between the NES and it’s dedicated arcade sibling, the Unisys VS. Memory was upgrade, several io pins are tapped and brought out for manual access via the newly added controls up front. At the very least, it’s a nice exercise in schematic reading. Given the mods and a few arcade accessories, you could reconstruct your own fully functional arcade machine.

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tagged: arcade recreation, ArcadeRecreation, nes, rom loading, RomLoading

4 Responses to From NES console to dedicated arcade emulator

strider_mt2k says:

April 19, 2007 at 10:51 pm

obviously a labor of love

really nice work, and well documented too.

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cfinger says:

April 19, 2007 at 11:43 pm

Damn, I’m impressed. Nice work.

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Tuck says:

April 20, 2007 at 12:45 pm

Pretty cool! Might go pull the NES out of storage. While looking up some of this info, I ran across a few articles, all pointing to the same dead link, about a Mac Mini install into a NES case. Thought it was worth mention as I haven’t seen it covered here. Google it.

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Mantari Damacy says:

April 21, 2007 at 3:27 pm

I had a Nintendo Playchoice 10 arcade game. It was an interesting substitute for a NES console. But the ‘cartridges’ (ROMs in SIMM or DIMM form, one) were expensive.

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