NES USB controller with 4GB starage

[MrPete1985]

The other day I was going through some things and found my old NES stuff and quickly saw much potential. I wanted to use the controller on my PC and further wanted to store the ROMs on the controller also so I did some shopping.

I bought a USB hub and a NES to USB converter chip, first thing I did was crack open the USB hub and remove the actual USB ports and original wire leaving me with this

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4711/hubfront.th.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/hubfront.jpg/)
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5876/hubback.th.jpg (http://img824.imageshack.us/i/hubback.jpg/)

Next was to open up and remove the USB port from an old 4GB flash drive I had laying around and wired everything up

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/872/wiredi.th.jpg (http://img820.imageshack.us/i/wiredi.jpg/)

Next I hot glued the flash drive and converter chip to the NES PCB

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/1909/sam0085u.th.jpg (http://img821.imageshack.us/i/sam0085u.jpg/)

and cleaned up the wiring a bit

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6515/wiredupclose.th.jpg (http://img10.imageshack.us/i/wiredupclose.jpg/)

and last I had to grind down one of the posts on the back of the case so everything can fit

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/586/controllerback.th.jpg (http://img810.imageshack.us/i/controllerback.jpg/)

I will also be using this to store my school files and can't wait to see every ones reaction when I plug this into the computer

[Mupen64 Man]

Ha, thats pretty awesome. I bet that everybody will get a kick out of that.

[MrPete1985]

everyone I have shown it to loves it and wants me to build them one, I am awaiting another USB converter board so I can make an SNES one

[jbone1337]

Hmmm... converting an old controller to usb so it works on the computer isnt much of anything special...
But adding a usb flash drive built in = genius!

Just put the emulator+roms on the flash storage and win.
Though it will probably only work for nes/snes, maybe n64, as the rom sizes are a little big for usb drive storage. (like psx games are like 500mb+ for each disc!)

Though for other things like gameboy/gameboy color/gameboy advanced you just just put on like the nes/snes controller thing.