Chirky Box
After playing Mario 1 on an original NES console in France, I was inspired to develop my own console.
I wondered whether it's still possible to get that immediate-response feeling using (partly) modern hardware.
So I built a console using the following:
| What | For |
|---|---|
| Raspberry PI 3 B+ | Runs the game under linux trixie lite |
| Original SNES controller | Better input device than keyboard |
| Raspberry PI Pico | Converts SNES inputs to USB generic joystick device |
| RGBerry | Converts Raspberry PI 4-pin output to SCART |
| 14" CRT TV | For no latency output |
I then got Astra to compile the console to wasm and add browser support: chirky.org
The github repo has the code: https://github.com/slimbuck/chirky