By now, most of us have had some experience getting ROMs from traditional video games to run on new hardware. Whether that’s just on a personal computer with the keyboard as a controller, or if it’s a more fine-tuned RetrioPie in a custom-built cabinet, it has ended up being fairly mainstream. What isn’t mainstream, however, is building custom hardware that can run traditional video games on the original console (translated). The completed job looks amazing, however the prototype blows us away with it’s beauty as well as complexity.
[phanick]’s project is a cartridge that is able to run games on the polish Famicon clone called the Pegasus. The games are kept on an SD card however rather than run in an emulator, an FPGA tons the ROMs and provides the data with the typical edge-connector in the cartridge slot of the console. The game is played from the vintage hardware itself. It takes a few seconds to tons in each ROM, however after that the Pegasus can’t tell any type of difference between this as well as an original cartridge.
The original prototype shown right here was developed back in 2012. since then it’s been with a few iterations that have reduced the size. PCBs were designed as well as developed in-house, as well as the latest revision likewise includes a 3D-printed situation that is better to the size of the original Famicon cartridges.
Even if you don’t have an rate of interest in traditional video games or emulation, the video below is worth inspecting out. (Be sure to turn on the subtitles if you don’t speak Polish.) [phanick] has put in a significant amount of time getting all of the details precisely right, as well as the level of polish shows in the final product. In fact, we’ve featured him before for building his own Famicom clone.
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