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SNES Pads - Relics from an Old SNES
Back around mid 1994 I got an SNES.
I was in chiro school and had a lot of free time on my hands
as I didn't do much of that studying thing you hear so much about... Well after about eight months of non-stop Earthbound and Super Mario RPG it died.
Fortunately, the school had gotten decent Internet access (aka pr0n) at that point, so all was not lost... but for some unknown reason I carted the carcass of my beloved SNES with me for nearly 10 years.
So, when it can time to play with some emulation, it seemed like a natural tribute to use the front panel connectors from my SNES in the circuit.
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The front panel connectors after an unfortunate run-in with a dremel. Also the front face plate chunks that cover them and a Radio Shack project box.
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A side view showing the precision dremel work involved in fitting the connectors in.
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Both connectors in the box with hot glue holding them in place. There's no problem too big to be fixed, or caused by, ample application of hot glue.
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The cooleo looking face plate pieces...
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These are little crimp ends that fit perfectly over the SNES connector ends.
My plan was to take the parallel cable to a small chunk of perf board that would have the diodes and some screw down terminal blocks. I could then use the crimp ends from the terminal blocks to the SNES connectors.
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Making sure the crimp ends fit...
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... and have continuity with the plugs...
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The most irritating part. Marking which wire in the printer/serial cable goes to which pin on the end. I sometimes make little tags to tape to the wires; here I just wrote down the wire colors.
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A small chunk of perf board, some diodes and the terminal block.
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The diodes and terminal block soldered to the parallel cable. The diodes are on the bottom of the pic and all connect to the bottom most terminal.
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A hole was drilled in the project box and the parallel cable fed through BEFORE the soldering on the perf board. The knot keeps the solder joins intact when my son throws his controller in frustration.
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A bunch of wires soldered to the crimp ends. These were screwed into the terminal blocks ready to plug into the correct spots on the SNES connectors.
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The entire mess with the top on. Not an easy fit, but solid.
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The adapter with two SNES controllers plugged in. It's survived multiple collisions with the wall, my son's chair and the cat.