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




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



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



and cleaned up the wiring a bit



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



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.