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NESPi – Mini NES Classic Raspberry Pi Games Console

141 points by doppp 10y ago

ragix 10y ago
Man, hobby electronics has come along way. Love em' or hate em' 3d printing is really adding that polish which takes things from a hack to professional looking prototype much more viable. What a time to be alive! :)
fredleblanc 10y ago
Watch the video, it's great. This is truly art to me: the intersection of technology and cleverness in a fun, clean little package. I don't have the know how to do all of this, but I wish I could get my hands on one of these already made.
maerF0x0 10y ago
This is what nintendo should be releasing in November.
rickdale 10y ago
The fact that this was built that with the mindset of keeping the nostalgia is amazing. The click seemed RIGHT on and the mini carts are thoughtful.
bobajeff 10y ago
If only Nintendo did the NFC cartridges thing with their Mini NES. That would've been so awesome and maybe somehow they could've had third parties rerelease thier own games independently through that mechanism.
- digi_owl 10y ago
  Note that all the NFC does is to tell the emulator what to load.
  - Wofiel 10y ago
    Ideal might've been to put a URL to image dumps on the NFC, spend a few seconds downloading, store them somewhere then run them in the emulator.
    - digi_owl 10y ago
      True, but as this was a Pi2, it would either require a usb wifi dongle, or leaving the ethernet plugged in all the time.
      - bobajeff 10y ago
        That implies it would be redownloaded every time rather than just the check for the ROM first and download if absent.
ewams 10y ago
What 3D printer is he using? Couldn't find it. What experience has others have doing 3D printing like this?
- ThatPlayer 10y ago
  I've printed a Raspberry Pi NES Case with my 3D printer. Most FDM printers will print in similar quality, and I'm not sure if he has done any post-processing on the finished prints. Looking at the author's Thingiverse page, he says he has a CTC Bizer which looks like a MakerBot Replicator Dual clone.
ldom22 10y ago
why build it now when you can wait 77 days to buy it? haha source: https://ldom22.github.io/NES-classic-reminder/ https://ldom22.github.io/NES-classic-reminder/
- justinlardinois 10y ago
  Don't get me wrong, the thing Nintendo's putting out is a good deal for what it is. But it doesn't look like it's going to be a better product than a lot of these hobby projects. It's certainly going to be running emulators, and there's no way to add more games.
  - maerF0x0 10y ago
    > there's no way to add more games At least out of the box. Expect myself or others to be hacking on that .
roflchoppa 10y ago
Do all new Dell screens have that picture in picture mode for HDMI? damn i need to get new screens, thats awesome.
n00b101 10y ago
This is so cool. I wonder if it could be scaled down even further, maybe by using a different developer board (FPGA?) instead of Raspberry Pi.

141 points by doppp 10y ago

ragix 10y ago

Man, hobby electronics has come along way. Love em' or hate em' 3d printing is really adding that polish which takes things from a hack to professional looking prototype much more viable. What a time to be alive! :)

fredleblanc 10y ago

Watch the video, it's great. This is truly art to me: the intersection of technology and cleverness in a fun, clean little package. I don't have the know how to do all of this, but I wish I could get my hands on one of these already made.

maerF0x0 10y ago

This is what nintendo should be releasing in November.

rickdale 10y ago

The fact that this was built that with the mindset of keeping the nostalgia is amazing. The click seemed RIGHT on and the mini carts are thoughtful.

bobajeff 10y ago

If only Nintendo did the NFC cartridges thing with their Mini NES. That would've been so awesome and maybe somehow they could've had third parties rerelease thier own games independently through that mechanism.

digi_owl 10y ago
Note that all the NFC does is to tell the emulator what to load.
- Wofiel 10y ago
  Ideal might've been to put a URL to image dumps on the NFC, spend a few seconds downloading, store them somewhere then run them in the emulator.
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    True, but as this was a Pi2, it would either require a usb wifi dongle, or leaving the ethernet plugged in all the time.
    - bobajeff 10y ago
      That implies it would be redownloaded every time rather than just the check for the ROM first and download if absent.

ewams 10y ago

What 3D printer is he using? Couldn't find it. What experience has others have doing 3D printing like this?

ThatPlayer 10y ago
I've printed a Raspberry Pi NES Case with my 3D printer. Most FDM printers will print in similar quality, and I'm not sure if he has done any post-processing on the finished prints. Looking at the author's Thingiverse page, he says he has a CTC Bizer which looks like a MakerBot Replicator Dual clone.

ldom22 10y ago

why build it now when you can wait 77 days to buy it? haha source: https://ldom22.github.io/NES-classic-reminder/ https://ldom22.github.io/NES-classic-reminder/

justinlardinois 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, the thing Nintendo's putting out is a good deal for what it is. But it doesn't look like it's going to be a better product than a lot of these hobby projects. It's certainly going to be running emulators, and there's no way to add more games.
- maerF0x0 10y ago
  > there's no way to add more games At least out of the box. Expect myself or others to be hacking on that .

roflchoppa 10y ago

Do all new Dell screens have that picture in picture mode for HDMI? damn i need to get new screens, thats awesome.

n00b101 10y ago

This is so cool. I wonder if it could be scaled down even further, maybe by using a different developer board (FPGA?) instead of Raspberry Pi.