NES Retro Media Center

Yester day I could not sleep, so what was I doing? Yes! I was soldering the secound RetroUSB chip and I also removed the big connection socket for the power button and the led.

On the other end, the end that was connected to the moder board the pinout looked like this:

1. GND
3. GND
5. USB_VD2+
7. USB_VD2-
9. +5VSUS
11. USB_VD5-
13. USB_VD5+

I used pin 9 for both of the ports and I connected them to a 2mm socket.

…and today I had time to test it and everything worked!

input: RetroUSB.com RetroPad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input4
generic-usb 0003:F000:0003.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Gamepad [RetroUSB.com RetroPad] on usb-0000:00:10.1-1/input0

input: RetroUSB.com RetroPad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/input/input5
generic-usb 0003:F000:0003.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Gamepad [RetroUSB.com RetroPad] on usb-0000:00:10.2-2/input0

I have finally got some time over for soldering the RetroKit from RetroZone! My thought was not to do too much modifications on the outside of the NES and therefore I desided to use the standard NES controller connections so all the modifications stays on the inside. I used the wires and the connections on the NES moder board to connect to my RetroKit. I still have the second controller and finding a USB socket to do so I can connect the controller to my moder board.

Note that the purple and the blue wire are not used and it is no need to connect those pins to the connection board. You can find the wiring diagram for the RetroKit here.