Power Player III, $20 down the drain?

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Power Player III, $20 down the drain?

Post by Asuraku » Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:12 pm

So I found a Power Player 3 (76000 in 1!), t's one that look exactly like the one over at ladyada.net/make/gamegrrl/make.html. Upon receiving it in the mail this morning I took everything apart. Much to my dissatisfaction, It doesn't have enough pins, nor does the NOAC have enough pinouts. Check it out:


NES cart, DIP connector that is correct size, and Power Player.
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Back of (or front?) on NOAC.
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Controller board only has a gloptop chip and button pads and there's an extension for a 2nd player/light gun. Other than that, this is what I have. Is there no hope to make a portable with it?



On an after thought, if I could try to find a flash drive that uses the same flash chip that it has on board I could technically interface a usb drive on to it to remove and re-manage the ROMs on board...

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Re: Power Player III, $20 down the drain?

Post by argelfraster » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:45 pm

I believe you need a 60 - 72 pin converter thing.
But NOAC's which have internal games usually have problems reading game carts.

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Re: Power Player III, $20 down the drain?

Post by Asuraku » Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:11 pm

So I googled the convertor and a bunch of things came up. Does anyone know of a reliable site?

Or just have a schematic showing which pins go where since I already have a DIP socket?

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Re: Power Player III, $20 down the drain?

Post by marshallh » Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:31 pm

http://wiki.playpower.org/f/NES_Famicom_Pinouts.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Basically, the NES connector is identical, except it has unused connections in the middle.
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Re: Power Player III, $20 down the drain?

Post by themadhacker » Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:41 pm

just get the pinout from Ben's download page and hardwire a 72 pin slot to it.
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