An Entire Retro Gaming System Inside an NES Gamepad
If you look inside a retro gaming console, there is a pretty good chance you’re going to find a lot of empty space. This is because even really inexpensive modern hardware is far more powerful than what an emulator for a 1980s console needs. A common microcontroller with a few hundred kilobytes of RAM will generally do the job.
YouTuber Logic Gate Labs was recently poking around inside a retro console and found that the NES-style controller it used was also mostly free space. That gave him an idea: Why not build an entire handheld gaming system into the controller? So, that’s exactly what Logic Gate Labs did — and it might be easier to do than you’d expect.
Hardware installation (📷: Logic Gate Labs)
To get started, the electronics were removed from the controller, leaving only the plastic shell, buttons, and D-pad. That left just enough room to fit...
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