Bluetooth SNES Controller for Android: Gamers, Start Up Your Emulators
May 22nd, 2011
YouTube member richdegenhardt hacked an SNES controller so it can be used as a Bluetooth controller for any Android device, making it much easier to enter the Konami code on his Android phone. Rich can even remap the buttons to stand for any key on an Android keyboard, so it’ll work not just with NES or SNES games but also with the latest ones.
Rich used an Arduino Pro Mini 328 to translate the controller’s signals, which are then sent to the target device via a BlueSMiRF Gold Bluetooth module. Rich bundled both plus a battery to the back of the controller to make the whole setup more portable.
The best thing about this hack is that it doesn’t require Rich to root the Android device he wants to pair it with, which is really convenient. But that convenience comes at a price – there’s a bit of soldering and programming involved in this hack. If you think you’ve got the skills, check out Rich’s guide here.
[via Hack a Day]
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I think if you’re going to modify the SNES controller, you might as well remove the serial output circuitry of the controller, and link the arduino directly to the buttons. The arduino has plenty of inputs so you can link each button to a single input on arduino. This avoids the unnecessary step of trying to get the serial data, and saves space inside the controller because parts of the board can be chopped… or maybe it doesn’t matter since the serial output circuitry probably consists of nothing more than one 16-bit PISO shift register.