MAME

6 Ways to Mod Your Old-School Nintendo Controller

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

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If you have some old controllers lying around, let these Nintendo controller mods act as inspiration for bringing your gaming up to snuff.

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GamingCape Gets Epic Build Treatment

GamingCape Gets Epic Build Treatment

By Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

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BeagleBone GamingCape “transforms your BeagleBone into a full fledged hand-held gaming console capable of playing all the classics such as NES, Gameboy, Sega GameGear, and even Doom.”

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Building a Scaled-Down Space Invaders Game With Raspberry Pi

Building a Scaled-Down Space Invaders Game With Raspberry Pi

By Tiburcio de la Carcova

Tiburcio de la Carcova

Beside being a man with a weird name Tiburcio is a serial Entrepeneur. He moved to Chile in 2003 to found Wanako Games, a leading video game studio developer acquired by Vivendi Games/Activision in 2006. In 2009 he founded Atakamalabs, adquired by DeNA in 2011. Also a hardcore Maker he builded a workshop in his house with 3D printers and laser cutters. Because he felt lonely (and by recommendation of the marital counsel) he decided to open the STGO Makerspace. He is also founder of idea.me, a crowfunding service focus in latin america creativity.

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Some months ago I finished an original Space Invaders restoration project, but as you can see on the picture on the left, it was a little big for my daughter. So the other day I stumbled across a cheap 5.5 inch CRT black and white TV and I decided to make a “mini-me” version for her.

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Portable Raspberry Pi MAME Device

Portable Raspberry Pi MAME Device

By Nick Normal

Nick Normal

I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!

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Jason Birch built a hand held MAME device using a Raspberry Pi connected to a 3.5″ LCD screen. The unit is powered from a battery pack and runs for around 2.5 hours.

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Mini RPi MAME Cabinet

Mini RPi MAME Cabinet

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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Sprite_tm’s miniature MAME cabinet that runs off a Raspberry Pi and even has a 128×32 OLED marquee along the top. Recently, I got one of the Pi’s myself exactly because of that reason: it’s always useful to expand your toolset with something powerful and cheap. I didn’t get it for a specific reason other than […]

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