Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 24

Reviving Nintendo’s Early Arcade Game, Wild Gunman

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/24/reviving-nintendos-early-arcade-game-wild-gunman/

13Apr 24
Reviving Nintendo’s Early Arcade Game, Wild Gunman https://hackaday.com/2026/04/24/reviving-nintendos-early-arcade-game-wild-gunman/
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Reviving Nintendo’s Early Arcade Game, Wild Gunman

There’s retrogaming, and then there’s retro gaming. This next project falls into the second category, as [Callan] of 74XX Arcade Repair digs into the original Wild Gunman, first release…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 23

GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/23/gamecube-bot-records-your-play-in-a-weird-way/

GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way

If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. But there is a more interesting way to do it—which is precisely what [jiinurppa] bui…

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13Apr 23
GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way https://hackaday.com/2026/04/23/gamecube-bot-records-your-play-in-a-weird-way/
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GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way

If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. But there is a more interesting way to do it—which is precisely what [jiinurppa] bui…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Apr 18

Fixing a GameCube’s Dodgy Optical Drive With Fresh Capacitors

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fixing-a-gamecubes-dodgy-optical-drive-with-fresh-capacitors/

13Apr 18
Fixing a GameCube’s Dodgy Optical Drive With Fresh Capacitors https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fixing-a-gamecubes-dodgy-optical-drive-with-fresh-capacitors/
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Fixing A GameCube’s Dodgy Optical Drive With Fresh Capacitors

Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the power to the laser diode to ramp up its output…

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13Mar 13
Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/nintendos-family-basic-keyboard-gets-usb-upgrade/
#NintendoHacks #PeripheralsHacks #Famicom #Familybasic #Familycomputer #Nintendo
Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade

America knew it as the Nintendo Entertainment System, but in Japan, it was the Family Computer (Famicom). It was more than just a home console—it was intended to actually do a whole lot more. All y…

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Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 13

Nintendo’s Family BASIC Keyboard Gets USB Upgrade

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/nintendos-family-basic-keyboard-gets-usb-upgrade/

Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 2

SNES Controllers are (Almost) SPI-Compatible

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/02/snes-controllers-are-almost-spi-compatible/

13Mar 2
SNES Controllers are (Almost) SPI-Compatible https://hackaday.com/2026/03/02/snes-controllers-are-almost-spi-compatible/
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SNES Controllers Are (Almost) SPI-Compatible

Considering that the Serial Peripheral Interface bus semi-standard has been around since the early 1980s, it’s perhaps not that shocking that the controllers of the Super Nintendo Entertainme…

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