Custom Noacs?

arfink · Post by **arfink** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:56 pm

Is there anyone who would be interested in custom NOACS? I know some of the members on this messageboard have been involved in commercial NOAC projects, such as Messiah's noac thing. I got this idea from the BYOAC (Build your own arcade controls) website, where they have special controller interfaces to buy for your arcade machine. My idea would be a NOAC with a 72 pin connector already attached and self-explanitory inputs. Also, no built in games. This would be project ready NOAC PCB which could simply be soldered up and viola! I know, not much potential for profit, especially since the JAP units are so dang cheap, but its an idea.

Post by **marshallh** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:42 pm

Well, if you could program an FPGA with the NES logic you'd be good

FPGAs can be manufactured cheap, but cramming all the circuitry in there is not easy (more impossible.)

akadewboy · Post by **akadewboy** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:42 pm

The Superjoy III is ultra compact, the pinouts have already been figured out so you can add a 72pin easy, you can disable the built-in games with 1 wire, and it's pretty cheap. I don't think you can get much better than that.

Post by **gannon** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 12:45 pm

The yobo (sp?) NOAC is about as close to that as you'll get unless you make a huge investment like Play Messiah did.