USB Nes controller with games.

[Felino]

On a lot though, its hardware, on some you knock out a resister and booom.

[Felino]

Would anyone here be able to write a front-end?

I might considder doing this, like with hacked up usb keyboard.

[gamemasterAS]

I suppose you could build in a hacked USB stick + keyboard, put an autorun on it (with an emulator), and set it to "unwriteable" (some usb sticks have that kind of option)

You would wanna be able to save games though.

[Kyo]

That's an excellent point. I guess you'd have to trust the user (being yourself) not to mess with the essential files then...

[Felino]

I am sure there would be some way, maybe two partitions, one locked somehow?

You never know, and nes roms take up nearly no space, so a 128mb sould do fine, or not?

If somone here wrote a nice frontend for me, i would do it! calling all skyones

[Adam G]

I am sure there would be some way, maybe two partitions, one locked somehow?

You never know, and nes roms take up nearly no space, so a 128mb sould do fine, or not?

If somone here wrote a nice frontend for me, i would do it! calling all skyones

All of the NES games add up to 229MB, or so says windows. So a 256mb stick would do fine.

[Kyo]

Actually, most emulators write to their own folder. Plus a partition would be hard to do, cause it would act as a seperate "drive" (if that's even possible for USB sticks, I don't know), which would make it's letter vary on different computers, eventually, which means that if the emulator has some kind of *.ini file storing the savefile directory, you still couldn't pull it off.

So yeah, we're back to the original problem.

[drjayphd]

Can't you just make the ROMs and program files that don't need to be written to read-only? Then just don't overwrite anything? No reason you'd need to get into anything if you're just playing 'em.

[tom61]

A year later, and he's finally posted a howto: http://edshowtos.blogspot.com/2008/06/h ... oller.html