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    Developer hacks Raspberry Pi to play Super Nintendo games

    A small, ugly computer playing old, primitive video games normally wouldn’t be news. But most small, ugly computers aren’t nearly as cool as the Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized Linux computer that’s being sold for just $35 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. And now, petRockBlog founder Florian has made the Raspberry Pi even cooler by creating an adapter for the mini-computer that’s capable of playing old-school 16-bit and 8-bit Nintendo games. In his blog post describing his project, Florian lists several key tasks he had to perform to make the Pi SNES-ready, such as creating a hardware controller interface, building a case that can contain the Pi and connect to traditional SNES controllers, and building a launch menu from scratch that lets users choose the games they want to play.

    The developer posted a video of himself playing the immortal Mario Kart on the Pi, although it would have been nice if he’d shown video of Street Fighter II and Chrono Trigger as well. Ah, memories…

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    14 comments

    • Glen  •  22 hrs ago
      I'm waiting for my Commodore 64 styled Pi. with a C64 emulator. The 64 was the greatest computer EVER made, EVER! Just think about that C= logo on a pinkish-red case.
    • Jonathan R  •  2 days 9 hrs ago
      How can ANYONE suck this bad on 50cc?
    • Jonathan R  •  2 days 9 hrs ago
      You Punk. Noone plays on 50cc. You are a loser!
    • Josh  •  Syracuse, New York  •  2 days 9 hrs ago
      didnt get the speed boost, used yoshi, and played on 50cc????? come one man ur better than that. get the fat a**es out (either bowser or donkey) and get the 150cc going and then well talk. thats what made this game so awesome is the unlimited speed of the fat a**ses.
    • Infernal Majesty  •  2 days 11 hrs ago
      Retron3 is greater than all!
    • Mike  •  Millersville, Maryland  •  1 day 23 hrs ago
      It's a start. What do you expect of a $35 computer.
    • Rob  •  Elmhurst, Illinois  •  3 days ago
      fist!
    • Tony  •  Thomasville, Georgia  •  2 days 12 hrs ago
      Why is there an article on this?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  3 days ago
      u where right... no one cares about the junk...
    • Jim  •  2 days 10 hrs ago
      I haven't looked into this any more than reading this article, but I get the impression that the only thing Florian did was put the Raspberry Pi in a box, design and add a couple of game pad interfaces, and then compile someone else's NES and SNES emulators for the Raspberry Pi. Sounds like a weekend project for most electronics hobbyists. Building a launch menu from scratch? Get serious! This is Linux. He could have written a Bash shell script to do that in about ten minutes. I'd be slightly more impressed if he actually wrote the NES and SNES emulators himself.
      • BN Wis 2 days 9 hrs ago
        Ya, what you said!
    • Nosystem  •  2 days 11 hrs ago
      Killer instinct!!!!
    • DannyD  •  Westerville, Ohio  •  10 hrs ago
      Ive been playing Genesis, SNES, NES, Turbo Graffix 16, Commodore 64, Nintendo 64, PS 1 and 2 on my laptop with a wired USB 360 controller for about... 3 years now, and with sound and they work flawlessly
    • a  •  2 days 2 hrs ago
      Nice use of GPIO. well done that man.
    • joe  •  2 days 10 hrs ago
      This guy is terrible at Mario Kart.
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