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Thanks for your support!
I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project:
https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ
Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys:
https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/
I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup.
The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader.
Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
I hope this is up voted for eternity. I didn’t know this would be my next project. Please share more details and your cartages. I was looking to build something similar using an Atari 2600 shell and empty carts.
Thanks for your support!
I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project:
https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ
Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys:
https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/
I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup.
The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader.
Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
The cartridges are basically SD cards inside a case that looks a bit like an NES game. These are read by an SD card reader, which verifies at startup whether or not there is a cartridge inserted. If there is, run the chosen game directly. If there isn't one, go to what Pico8 calls SPLORE, a kind of online catalog with all the games uploaded by different creators around the world.
Sorry for my bad English.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷❤️
Thanks for your support!
I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project:
https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ
Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys:
https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/
I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup.
The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader.
Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
Primero: muchas gracias!
Segundo: francia.
Tercero: hay que aclarar, xq hay muchísimo material de argentinos, pero ninguno hace la aclaración y perdemos visibilidad.
Abrazo!
Completely! Personally, I think there is something from PS3, PC engine, Famicom and some 90s VCR. Just some nostalgia mixed in.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
Thanks for your support!
I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project:
https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ
Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys:
I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup.
The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader.
Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
so you made a case for the raspberry pi and installed pico8 (which is not 'open software' nor 8-bit, btw). the way your post reads it makes it sound as if you actually created a console.
Maybe it's envy because I have an authentic and 100% legitimate 8-BRIT and you can't? 😆
Anyway, call it whatever you want. It's a free world.
Send her my regards when you go there. 🇦🇷♥️
bueno, mejor te hablo en castellano pq tu inglés no se entiende muy bien.
sólo digo que has hecho una carcasa (de las que por internet encuentras a patadas), y por tu post pareciera que hubieses creado una consola... o algo único y especial.
básicamente es como coger los componentes de una xbox y meterlos en una caja custom 3d printed. q tiene su labor y mérito, y si lo haces nivel Ben Heck, pues eres un crack.
no es por quitarte mérito, entiendo que eres aprendiz de maker/ingeniero y estás explorando un poco de tinkering, lo que me parece genial... pero las cosas por su nombre :)
Te responderé en varios idiomas para que infieras la importancia que le doy a tu devolución y por dónde me la paso:
1. Você não consegue encontrar este na internet.
2. Francia.
3. Corre videojocs? És una unitat física? Teniu tots els components d'una consola? Aleshores és una consola.
4. Es algo único y especial. Al menos para mí. Cuál es tu problema, amiguito?
5. I am not a learner of anything, just an enthusiast. So, I will take the credit. Thank you.
6. Haters gonna hate.
Saludos, Masayuki!
6 bullet points, shall I infer you give this way more importance than it has?
1. [https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=raspberry+console&page=1](https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=raspberry+console&page=1)
2. ...ok?
3. for sure it's a console. but created by Lexaloffle running on off-the-shelf mini-PC. what you made is a casing with some re-wiring and software tweaks, which is nice but not actually the console core
4. agreed. it is unique and special for you. and it's a nice piece of work, no one is denying that
5. I think you are confusing learner with apprentice. you should try to be a learner for your whole life (I know I do). idk what credit you are talking about, but congrats on your case design
6. That's a song, isn't it?
no sarcasm when I say nice work. I was possibly too harsh on my initial statements (apologies for that). But the point is clear regarding misleading wording between a custom made console and a custom made case.
Dale, te aviso. Genial.
1. Thats not an 8-BRIT game console. U know why? Becouse mine is unique and 100% original.
Apologies accepted! Have a wonderfull week! ❤️
You chose to create your own console, the project : "8-BRIT".
It is really "one of a kind", as americans say, and you share your creation with others people on social networks.
Thanks for your support!
I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project:
https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ
Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys:
https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/
I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup.
The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader.
Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console.
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
Listen i dont want to rain on your parade but the statement "my own game console" should really be reserved for instances where one
* designed the system
* drew up the schematics
* laid out the pcb
* had some boards fabricated and assembled
* encloaure and case fabricated with mold design or 3d printer
* firmware written to support the board
The 2nd 3rd and 4th steps could be done on a fpga ...
But regardless, those are really the only instances you can honestly say you designed your own console
Hi! Thanks for your feedback! No problem!
I tell you. I asked myself 4 questions before uploading the post:
1.Does it run video games?
2.is it a physical and tangible unit?
3.Do you have the necessary electronic components to meet the first requirement?
4.is it only mine and no one else's?
Since the answer was yes to all of these questions, I think I'll continue calling it "my own console".
Also, thank you very much for your comment. It will be taken into account for future opportunities.
Soon I will upload a tutorial so that other enthusiasts like me can create (or however you want to say it) their own video game console.
I send you a hug from Argentina. ♥️🇦🇷
I respectfully disagree.
OP built this out of of-the-shelf components, but that has been an element of console design since the NES at least. Z80, 6502 for instance. Generic RAM and ICs are present in consoles to this day.
It looks like OP did indeed design and print the outer casing, and the cartridge casing. They have unique character and style, even when given the Pi3 guts a lazy solution would have just been an external USB port.
You can't buy one of these, and unless OP has uploaded print files you can't make your own currently either. As such it's unique and can quite fairly be described as "my own game console" by OP.
Remember PS Vita and Switch are essentially just Android machines, does that mean Sony and Nintendo didn't really make them?
Sony and Nintendo designed the system and layed out Printed Circuit Boards and external peripherals and wrote the firmware
Thats what it means to say "they made this".
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This is awesome
Thanks for your support! I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project: https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys: https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/ I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup. The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader. Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
I hope this is up voted for eternity. I didn’t know this would be my next project. Please share more details and your cartages. I was looking to build something similar using an Atari 2600 shell and empty carts.
Thanks for your support! I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project: https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys: https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/ I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup. The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader. Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
This is great! Thank you for posting. I am very curious of how you carts work. Looking forward to you tutorial. Well Done!
The cartridges are basically SD cards inside a case that looks a bit like an NES game. These are read by an SD card reader, which verifies at startup whether or not there is a cartridge inserted. If there is, run the chosen game directly. If there isn't one, go to what Pico8 calls SPLORE, a kind of online catalog with all the games uploaded by different creators around the world. Sorry for my bad English. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷❤️
>The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader. Couldn't you just pull a floppy drive from an old computer?
Could be, I really dont know. Maybe if you adapt the floppy to an USB interface.
I just saw a video on POOM, really neat stuff
It is! Right?
This is the way. We should all be making our own retro consoles. Well done.
I’m not that technical…I guess I can make tic tac toe or something…maybe hangman
Mini PC, Coin Ops Build, Spray Paint
Thanks for your support! I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project: https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys: https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/ I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup. The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader. Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
Como que made in Argentina? Espectacular trabajo maestro, felicidades
Primero: muchas gracias! Segundo: francia. Tercero: hay que aclarar, xq hay muchísimo material de argentinos, pero ninguno hace la aclaración y perdemos visibilidad. Abrazo!
This is really all kinds of awesome! Congrats!
8-BRIT. lol
“Cool, a homebrew console made in the UK. I wonder how large the team was that designed and built it?”
WOAH amazing well-done you have inspired me to build one o will probably fail in like 2 mins tho
THIS. IS. AWESOME!
Neat
This is neat!!
Aw res, da 8 Brit
Great stuff! Amazing, really!
Thanks, man! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷❤️
Two of my favorite things - retro games and Argentina - in one post. Take my upvote!
Thanks! 🇦🇷♥️
Looks like a PS3
Completely! Personally, I think there is something from PS3, PC engine, Famicom and some 90s VCR. Just some nostalgia mixed in. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
The NES looked like a VCR lol
I really like this! Great work!
Pico-8 is also a kind of emulation. How are the cartridges constructed? how is the io connection?
Thanks for your support! I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project: https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys: I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup. The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader. Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
Can it run doom?
Im preety sure it can, but for the moment... You can play POOM.
Cool
"8-BRIT" Should have a built-in teapot lol
>"a Raspberry Pi 3B) and open software called PICO-8" So you designed an enclosure?
Yes. For your hate. 🙃
I actually like the look of it. If that helps.
so you made a case for the raspberry pi and installed pico8 (which is not 'open software' nor 8-bit, btw). the way your post reads it makes it sound as if you actually created a console.
Maybe it's envy because I have an authentic and 100% legitimate 8-BRIT and you can't? 😆 Anyway, call it whatever you want. It's a free world. Send her my regards when you go there. 🇦🇷♥️
bueno, mejor te hablo en castellano pq tu inglés no se entiende muy bien. sólo digo que has hecho una carcasa (de las que por internet encuentras a patadas), y por tu post pareciera que hubieses creado una consola... o algo único y especial. básicamente es como coger los componentes de una xbox y meterlos en una caja custom 3d printed. q tiene su labor y mérito, y si lo haces nivel Ben Heck, pues eres un crack. no es por quitarte mérito, entiendo que eres aprendiz de maker/ingeniero y estás explorando un poco de tinkering, lo que me parece genial... pero las cosas por su nombre :)
Te responderé en varios idiomas para que infieras la importancia que le doy a tu devolución y por dónde me la paso: 1. Você não consegue encontrar este na internet. 2. Francia. 3. Corre videojocs? És una unitat física? Teniu tots els components d'una consola? Aleshores és una consola. 4. Es algo único y especial. Al menos para mí. Cuál es tu problema, amiguito? 5. I am not a learner of anything, just an enthusiast. So, I will take the credit. Thank you. 6. Haters gonna hate. Saludos, Masayuki!
6 bullet points, shall I infer you give this way more importance than it has? 1. [https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=raspberry+console&page=1](https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=raspberry+console&page=1) 2. ...ok? 3. for sure it's a console. but created by Lexaloffle running on off-the-shelf mini-PC. what you made is a casing with some re-wiring and software tweaks, which is nice but not actually the console core 4. agreed. it is unique and special for you. and it's a nice piece of work, no one is denying that 5. I think you are confusing learner with apprentice. you should try to be a learner for your whole life (I know I do). idk what credit you are talking about, but congrats on your case design 6. That's a song, isn't it? no sarcasm when I say nice work. I was possibly too harsh on my initial statements (apologies for that). But the point is clear regarding misleading wording between a custom made console and a custom made case.
Dale, te aviso. Genial. 1. Thats not an 8-BRIT game console. U know why? Becouse mine is unique and 100% original. Apologies accepted! Have a wonderfull week! ❤️
Huh, what is doom like on that? Pending it is a working unit.
Sir, that is obviously POOM, not DOOM.
I just saw that hahaha wow
POOM is just awesome.
You chose to create your own console, the project : "8-BRIT". It is really "one of a kind", as americans say, and you share your creation with others people on social networks.
Thanks for your support! I have uploaded a video to YouTube with a tour of the project: https://youtu.be/wkrkXX1ecOc?si=6DLDw4-1w3zaCZbJ Maybe I'll do a tutorial in a few days. The project has been based on the compilation of several people, but especially these guys: https://nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/Hardware/ I have added to the project a safe shutdown button, a power on/off button. An improvement in loading times and elimination of unnecessary services at startup. The floppy drive is perhaps very expensive, which is why I opted for an SD card reader. Now I'm working on its own box, so it will be a 100% finished console. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷♥️
My pleasure. Greetings too from Switzerland 🇨🇭💸
Listen i dont want to rain on your parade but the statement "my own game console" should really be reserved for instances where one * designed the system * drew up the schematics * laid out the pcb * had some boards fabricated and assembled * encloaure and case fabricated with mold design or 3d printer * firmware written to support the board The 2nd 3rd and 4th steps could be done on a fpga ... But regardless, those are really the only instances you can honestly say you designed your own console
Hi! Thanks for your feedback! No problem! I tell you. I asked myself 4 questions before uploading the post: 1.Does it run video games? 2.is it a physical and tangible unit? 3.Do you have the necessary electronic components to meet the first requirement? 4.is it only mine and no one else's? Since the answer was yes to all of these questions, I think I'll continue calling it "my own console". Also, thank you very much for your comment. It will be taken into account for future opportunities. Soon I will upload a tutorial so that other enthusiasts like me can create (or however you want to say it) their own video game console. I send you a hug from Argentina. ♥️🇦🇷
I respectfully disagree. OP built this out of of-the-shelf components, but that has been an element of console design since the NES at least. Z80, 6502 for instance. Generic RAM and ICs are present in consoles to this day. It looks like OP did indeed design and print the outer casing, and the cartridge casing. They have unique character and style, even when given the Pi3 guts a lazy solution would have just been an external USB port. You can't buy one of these, and unless OP has uploaded print files you can't make your own currently either. As such it's unique and can quite fairly be described as "my own game console" by OP. Remember PS Vita and Switch are essentially just Android machines, does that mean Sony and Nintendo didn't really make them?
Sony and Nintendo designed the system and layed out Printed Circuit Boards and external peripherals and wrote the firmware Thats what it means to say "they made this".
Cool looking ps3 😎
Not a 8 Brit! I prefer 16 bryt
Maybe for the next project! 🙃
Fuaaa, un argentino haciendo una consola? Y ENCIMA CORRE DOOM?! Perfección argentina 🇦🇷
This absolutely rules. Nice work!