Raspberry SUPER Pi - Turning the Pi into a games console

26 Jan 2017

This's a pretty clever design, and I thought to myself "it wouldn't take much to make these into actual cartridges, if the Pi Compute was used as an edge connector".

Still, the images speak for themselves, and the creator used Berryboot to allow the OSs to be changed easily.

{gallery} Raspberry SUPER PI
Super Pi: Switch OS by switching cartridges
Super Pi: Looks almost like a SNES
Super Pi: Especially when next to a controller

{gallery} Raspberry SUPER PI

Super Pi: Switch OS by switching cartridges

Super Pi: Looks almost like a SNES

Super Pi: Especially when next to a controller

Source: Imgur Gallery / blog

How would you design this differently? I think this makes it very accessible for people of all ages, and microSD cards are so small these days they're easy to lose...

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shabaz over 7 years ago in reply to cstanton

It all sounds amazingly wacky nowadays what was normal then. From keeping a screwdriver nearby to directly influence the physical layer if the tape gave read errors, to buying your mix-tapes data backup/storage solution from a company called Aiwa..
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cstanton over 7 years ago in reply to shabaz

Nah, encode the ID onto the cassette so you have to play it, but it is read by an arduino/sdr
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shabaz over 7 years ago

Nice : )
Another idea could be to use a cassette deck, but instead of tape have NFC in there, and have the Pi or whatever device to do a Docker get of whatever URL is encoded on the NFC tag, and launch it.
That way the cassettes would stay cheap, no need for memory in them, and any delay downloading the container would be very authentic, like the delay we all experienced with tape based software : )
It could even do the stripey lines while it "loads" : )
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