bOOdaw writes:
EtherNES is a NES networking project that Wookie is currently designing the schematics and working with the NESdev community to connect your NES to your LAN. Fortunately a solution has been found for the difficult male expansion connector at the bottom of the NES. A female connector has been found to work from the company Sullins Connectors (more information within the thread).
Some of the current development application ideas for EtherNES once completed:
* An NES BBS
* An MMORPG
* Synching NESes together for audio playback
* Launching remote code
* A MIDINES alternative
* A text-based web browser…
* Etc…
Serial Communication + Powerpak might be a great dev enviroment, think compiling your song and sending it directly to hardware! Or the midi alternative would be cool as well, Will keep an eye on things.
* Launching remote code
* A MIDINES alternative
Those two items sound fantastic.
Does no-one else think this could potentially be incredible?
NESdevvers are really mixed on it… Since the ethernet controller is actually more powerful than the NES itself.
From what I understand, the network hardware is way easier than actually coding the network stack. We’ll see.
Wowo A dream come true! I once had a legit dream that people could play nes on the internet. now i just jizzed my pant……’o’s
I know this is pretty old, but I’ve revived the project. I’ve built two functional NES-RS232 adapters and used a PC to proxy traffic between the NES and an IP host as a demo. An actual embedded ethernet adapter is in the works.