NUN UZEBOX

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What about use Wii NUNCHUKS as gamepads/joys in future UzeBox???
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Dear Tinctu,
Tinctu wrote:Hope I will see EU Scart UZEBOX with NUN Port for nunchucks...

I'm afraid it s not possible to connect a NUNCHUK controller directly to an UZEBOX (or EUzebox). It looks like that this controller based on I2C bus. The NES and SNES controllers based on a simple serial interface similar to SPI.

It makes no sense to change the hardware of the Uzebox because you have to recompile all existing games than. But it should be possible to create a simple converter (SNES <-> NUNCHUK) based for example on an ATMEGA8 ...

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Hmmm, didn't we discuss Wii controllers ages ago? What's nice about the Wii interface is that it's I2C, and the AVR support this natively. However the pins are used by the video DAC so it's unlikely we will use them directly. One could always do an adapter converting I2C data to SNES compatible serial. That would require a small MCU like a mega8.

-Uze

edit: Not fast enough to answer, Harty has beaten me again! Haha we had same idea and MCU!
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Hi,

now my Nunchuck 2 SNES interface works. Here is a video with a first preview:



It works also with the Uzebox, but because of the non compatible mouse emulation of the Uzebox only in gamepad emulation mode:



More informations on my website....


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Awesome work Harty! :mrgreen:
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The first PCB prototypes of my new Nun2SNES interface (WII Nunchuk to SNES) has just arrived...
NUN2SNES interface PCB
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Hey nice little boards! Is it a kit that you'll make available on your new web shop?
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