I built a magic SNES controller.
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- After adding a WI-FI access point, a web server, emulators and games this controller is a self-contained retro powerhouse.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - The Plan
2:45 - The Hardware
9:12 - The Emulators
10:36 - Testing & Debugging
12:51 - The Software
14:42 - Pulling it all Together 
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Hey all - since posting this I have gotten more time to live with this device and in my testing I have found the latency to be worse than it seemed on initial testing.
For short durations it is pretty darn responsive but there are random lag spikes which cause issues in any fast moving games. I would like to experiment with this more, but for now it is hard for me to recommend replicating this project unless you think you have the software chops to tackle these lag issues. I still believe it could work well but it is not as easy of build as the hardware makes it look!
When you started talking about shortwave and AI I left this video. I refuse to do anything with, use or utilize AI.
@@kd5inm ok boomer
How come you still here on YT then ?
can't wait to look like a crazy person playing with a magic snes controller on the train to work
magic snes controller + ar glasses
Why stop there. Go full Bringus and make a stealth kit.
Get a Neuralink, and zone-out in front of old ppl.
A few years ago I converted my old phone into a portable video game console. Loaded it with roms and emulators from NES to Wii, put Gamepass on there, a DOS emulator with Fallout 1, and some miscellaneous Android games. Played using my PS4 controller until I bought a Bluetooth controller that held the phone; can't remember the name of the company atm but I know I paid $30 with shipping from Amazon. Always got looks and questions, quite a few people were very interested in it. From my experience it was more positive than negative. Sadly the device gave up the ghost last year. I'm currently working on doing something similar with an ONN Android TV Box from Walmart.
You could be just like that one kid in NCIS/CSI/Whatever show it was, that time...where to show they were a "pro gamer", they were shown miming empty handed controller movements while watching one of the other characters play...because, you know, pro-gamers do that 🙄
This is genius. It's really neat that your games follow the controller and interfaces using something as openly supported as the web browser.
I'm still mad rich web apps aren't more utilized. There's so much potential there. Browsers are a really underrated tech
Or web Bowser
Finally... Plug & Play 2: WiFi Boogaloo
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I've personally never seen a project like this before. Very neat!
most underrated channel on yt rn. you bring an enthusiasm and quality to your videos that shouldnt be the case for 55k subs. please take your time so you don’t burn out/sell your soul because i don’t want to lose this channel ❤
thank you for the kind words! sincerely appreciate both you and my gf monitoring my burnout :)
I would like this for EVERY retro game controller I got for that system maybe some others. However, an Idea for future improvement would be using the access point for other controllers for a multiplayer experience on the same setup to allow more people to play.
Your projects are awesome!
Thanks mark!! I appreciate you watching.
Damn this is so cool. I’ve been loving every piece of content you put out! ESP boards are so awesome
Continue the projects and you'll be a massive youtuber. I've subscribed not because I want to build your exact projects but to learn about basic electronics engineering. You're a great resource.
I wish there was an audio clip of Wade going THE PKCELL
Super cool project, thanks for sharing!
there are products similar to this that have the roms built in and hdmi out to connect to a tv - first time i have seen the wifi presented emulator, which is very cool!
kudos to you abe - and i am sure you will somebody commercialize this design shortly 😅
Such a great idea, thank you for sharing your project! I really enjoy your videos
This is so sick!!!! Absolutely deserves more attention
That's awesome, thanks for the video 💜
Abe this is amazing! This makes me wanna try it out myself.
My god, not just the project but also the editing is top notch!
Love it! Awesome work! 👏🏼
Thank you!
Amazing, great job!
All your videos are great!
Your channel is amazing, reminds me of when Bringus first started, I was there for that, too. You’re doing a great job and I see at least a million subscribers in your future.
Thank you so much for the kind words, I hope you are correct!
This was a very cool build. Personally I have no training in working on electronics. But recently I was able to swap the board from a generic USB SNES controller into the shell of a defective USB Hyperkin Scout controller. I needed no special tools. Just a screwdriver and hot-glue. And the controller works. Hyperkin made one of the best SNES controller shells. But they aren't plug and play for the USB controllers on SNES and GBA emulators for some reason. And Hyperkin also discontinued their best looking controller and replaced it with one not as good. Their older USB controllers also seem to become defective rather easily, so I swapped in a board from a generic USB SNES controller, and the Hyperkin controller is now not only fully functional, it no longer needs to be programmed. It's completely plug and play.
That is extremely cool! Great video! I love how accessible technology like this has become, and I hope to explore it myself someday. 😄
i am consistently amazed by you and the things you create
This is awesome man, I was watching your shorts and saw the bit about the Unihiker and I had a really cool idea as a nerdy gift for one of my best friends thanks to that video. Not sure what components to use and I'm a lot shorter on time than I thought I would be. Wanted to get into soldering and hardware for fun since I like software so much. I'll be watching your videos, the editing is great and I hope you blow up man!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoy and good luck on the project!
This looks awesome!
This is awesome.
Like the ultimate plug and play.
Just discovered your channel from the M5Stack mini computer short. Great work!
Thank you for watching!
Actually insane! This is definitely my next project. Where did you get the idea to do this from?
This is the first time I've seen one of your videos. I love the way you present. You have a new subscriber.
Thanks Darren! Appreciate the support!
This is a really cool project! Would you mind posting the full parts list?
Outstanding!
A short led me here and I'm glad it did. This guy is the perfect combo of smart and smartass. I love it and I'm going to try and make one out of an N64 controller because YES. Good stuff Sir.
Thank you so much I’m glad you enjoy!!
Damn these projects are sick
Thank you so much!
Amazing content!
God i effing love your videos. Such a smart concept
Thanks Oreo, appreciate the kind words and consistent viewership!!
This is so damn clever and can't quite keep up with the technical side of building this, but seeing what one passionate person can achieve, I can't help but feel a sense of inspiration. It makes me believe that "anything IS possible." The video also being entertaining and funny is just the icing on the cake.
Wow thank you so much for all the kind words I really appreciate it!!
Woah awesome! its insane How you brought your dream to life!
I love your videos, they are so creative !!
i just bought my first arduino kit and these videos have been great inspiration!
Awesome man have fun! It’ll be tricky but just keep tinkering and you’ll get there!
rocking the FW13 as usual! 💯💯
Wtf. That production quality is mind-blowing.
Thank you!!
This guy is gonna be my new hero
This is an extremely cool project that will for sure at least take inspiration from!
Brilliant
I found this channel out randomly. Loving the content! Getting a micheal reeves vibe without the sarcastic jokes
holy crap this is amazing
I 100% do not understand the software end of this, but Im prettty excited by this project. I cant wait to see more on it in the Shorts.
Really awesome idea, man! I got into emulation this past year with a retroid device and fell in love with how easy it is to have in my pocket at all times. Felt like being a kid again. I love my switch, but sadly it's just a slight bit too big to stick in my pocket XD
Ever do anything with wacky controller mods? Just this weekend I turned my midi keyboard into a gaming device and played Monster Hunter with it on stream using a software that maps midi inputs to mouse and keyboard inputs. I played for about three hours until my wrists started hurting XD
Keep up the good work man. Never thought about something like this. This is a clever way to offload the work to a heavy lifting device like a phone or computer but keep the data on the go with you! 👍
2:57
That made me laugh out loud lol. Love your comedic delivery! Always enjoy watching your stuff
Haha thanks!! Glad you enjoy :D
You are so smart to allow the gameplay to happen on the powerful computer CPU but preserve all the benefits of having the games on the controller!
maybe a custom qr code badge to launch mobile sites to the browser page? you may be able to register the private ip address of served by the esp to a subdomain of a public domain you own and then register a cert to that. long shot but this might be what you need to get ios support. this project really solves for a problem and is great work. If this was a pi project with an easy to design controller hat, im sure i and others with less hardware skills would build.
That's a good idea and since he's serving his own WIFI network from the device, I'm curious if there's a way to implement bonjour protocol and route to a constant address like 'magic-controller.local' or something. Not that using the IP is a problem, I just think it would make it look a bit more polished.
Thanks, polishing the name resolution might just be as simple as using the esp as a dhcp/dns server in addition to the wifi access point. not too familiar with bonjour, but I expect it is a bit more complicated and may even require listening on the client side. @@theOrneryMaker
This is so cool! I couldn't tell if it was already doing so, but it would be cool to add in code to trigger the WiFi network sign in when the devices connect to the network of the controller. That way (in theory at least) you could use it on devices that might not have a web browser app but have support for wifi network sign-in pages like maybe the Nintendo Switch.
You have a good narration voice. Nice to listen too. This video was Entertaining if nothing else. I would actually love to make this tho
Thank you for watching!
oho i see you trying new things in your editing 😎 u love to see it
Still finding my voice / editing style! we are getting there though!
WOW that is super cool
Thank you so much!!
Wow…. Aaaaand subscribed! Full tutorial please!!
Nice Topre board, bro.
Man id love to see this with other controllers and consoles as well. An N64 controller like this would be amazing
Man, this is cool.
impressive!
Great video again, always love your content. Quick question, can this emulator support multiple controller inputs? And do you have any thoughts on maybe hosting this on a pi for home/multipler use? Lastly, what’s the lag like?
I would love a step by step guide for this!
The way you present the soldering footage and shot of your wrist just sent me 😂
awesome! subbed :)
Woah. When I clicked I thought you had just added Bluetooth. This is so much better
Man, I love when I find an admittedly niche channel covering projects only we hypernerds would be interested in, and it's still very well made
Thanks for the kind words I’m glad you enjoy!
God this stuff is cool. I wouldnt even know where to start learning how to do things like this.
Really cool project, maybe you could add an USB-C port for charging in a future revision
your the Best
This deserves more than 5k views
Shortwave sounds sketchy as hell.
I like this
I have no idea what you just did but I sure as shit want to buy it.
Wow no way ur only at 2k likes on this. Really cool project
I know it's only been 3 hours since upload, but this video needs more views
fire channel
Holy s*** dude you're my new best friend give me any kind of thing cuz I have no idea how to put this together but I'm going to make it f****** work cuz it's f****** awesome cheers my friend and Merry Christmas
Cool! :) maybe also save every 15 seconds or so. In case people forget to press start and something happens.
I would love some benchmarks
Cool idea and prototype. I hope you plan on doing a revision and cleaning it up a bit. Moving the power LED to the open cord port would be a good way to make it look a little more finished. I wasn't able to tell from the video, did you make the USB charge port accessible from the outside or do you have to split the controller to charge the battery as it is now?
I’d like to try this.
Projects like this makes me want to learn 3d printer so I can make a thicker bottom case with holders and such.
Yooo, great video sir.
What laptop were you using during the intro?
Framework laptop! And thank you!!
Hey what a great project! Loved it. Can you maybe drop a list of the boards/components u used for the project? Would be really helpful cuz i would really want to rebuild it. Thank you so much!!
Grab an spdif fiber optic cable you have lying around, cut to length, and route to the LED
This is certainly one of the
One thing I do a lot if I dont wanna relocate an LED is use clear PLA 3D printer filament to act as a light pipe. You could perhaps do that?
Awesome
I couldn't help but notice the epic GNOME linux desktop
Lol, great video!
New sub here.
Years ago I did one were it has a PI Zero in it along with a battery but it had a cord coming out of the top so you can connect it to a TV over HDMI, you only get about an hour out of the battery but it was a fun little project to do and I started on a 2 payer version but didnt get to far.
maybe i need to pick up were i left off.
Threw away the Mac. Love it
I want one now!!!!
this reminds me of how the stadia controller used to work, with all the Wi-Fi connectivity
yay new vid
Longest one yet, too!
New here. Surprisingly cool project, man. One question, the SD reader and all the electronics you put in the controller, where can be bought? Thanks.
Would be awesome if it was posible to play a multiplayer game like Mario kart with multiple of these "magic snes controller"
Neato. I have the Android Nintendo emu. from Playstore with NES, SNES, N64, and GBA. I play all the classics. I still like the 80's and 90's Mario games. I was poor and never had Mario World, so it's sweet. Edit: I thank God I'm not that hairy.