Hi everyone,

I was wondering if there is any interest for a Nintendo 64 input display device which you can buy.

The basic backstory is I'm an electronic engineering student at university, and was working on a Nintendo 64 flash cartridge in my spare time (for fun). However, after ordering all the parts I ended up changing the design slightly, and I now have a number of spare, small footprint microcontrollers leftover. I wound up turning one into a N64 input display device for myself, and it worked out pretty well. I also wrote some matching software for it, and am currently working on a small 3D printed box to house it all in.

The device acts as a HID USB gamepad, and listens to the data line for requests from the console and responses from the controller. The software can detect if a matching device is plugged in, and will display the buttons being pressed, as well as the joystick position in real time. The software also has different controller layouts for the Hori Mini Pad and a GameCube controller (with Raphnet adaptor). I am also working on making it fully customisable, so you can import images to create your own controller layouts.

Still in the early stages... but since I have spares lying around, and from what I've read there doesn't seem to be a universal solution for capturing controller data from consoles... I thought I'd ask around as to whether anyone would even be interested in buying one of these things before I get too far into this!

Thanks in advance!