Today I was put in a very hard situation, I was forced to choose if I was going to build my NES to USB converter or to buy it. I so wanted to build it my self by using a PIC microcontroller but since I did not have a programmer and was only to program two chips it was alot cheaper to buy the converters. From what I could see from forums RetroZone was the best place to go and so I did. As soon as they arrives I will put out some pictures cause I will install the converters in a special way.
Since I did a bit of reasearch on how to build and program the NES to USB converter it is ashame to let it go to waist. Ther for I will post some good links here.
- The PIC18F4550 from Microchip is a really nice microcontroller to use for this USB project.
- Microchip also have very good programmers and debugger tools, PICkit 2.
- If you like DIY, like me please have a look at this article at www.diyife.com.
- And here are some information about programming it on a Mac!
- The software and alot of more information on how to do this you can find here.
- Also if you like YouTube, MungedToastFaces has posted alot of good videos.