Old games never die, their hardware just becomes wildly outdated. Howeve if you're chasing the original Mario Bros experience and have the emulations in place on your PC - you can now complete the system by converting an original NES gamepad into a USB joystick. Doing so doesn't involve creating a separate interface device, as with the guide created by Instructables user "osgeld". With a bit of work a bare Arduino-compatible circuit can be installed into the gamepad, and with the supplied sketch it can then appear as a HID joystick in Windows and Ubuntu Linux. The creator hasn't tried it on a Mac.
Nevertheless, an interesting example of hardware hacking. And for more, we're on twitter and Google+, so follow us for news and product updates as well.
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