Game Hacks

PowerGlove Mouse - Version 2

This is an updated version of the Power Glove mouse we saw a few months ago. What is a Power Glove? Click here to find out. “I had the 4 wires coming from the glove bundled together, as the ones from the mouse. Then I skrewed the base of the mouse into the glove, and drilled another hole that the wires from the batteries come up from under the glove.

NES Controller to Xbox Hack

So I am sure you have thought about playing your Xbox with a NES controller right? Well now you have! Where could you possible find documentation to do such a wild thing? Simple, altHack have everything you need. They have a parts list, tool list, schematic diagrams, well labeled pictures of the process and more. So what are you waiting for? Get hacking! The project is broken into three sections,

Hack a Hummer Off Road Game into a Commodore 64

David Murray took the $20 Hummer Off Road Racing game and converted it into a working Commodore 64. Included on his site are instructions on how to hack the audio, video circuits to work better. “Inside, it contains the Commodore 64 DTV chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth. It is the same chip being sold inside the Commodore 64 DTV Joystick currently being sold in Europe. (DTV = Direct to TV)

GameBoy ATAPI CD Player

Jordi Bracke has gone about playing a CD the hard way. Instead of buying a $20 portable player he decided to interface a GameBoy system to play a CD using a computer ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Here is what you need to build your own: -A GameBoy to show track information and control the playing. -A GameBoy cartridge: we will need it to interface the GameBoy to a board. -An ATAPI

Make your own Video Game System

John Beeckler was not content with playing the standard video game systems. The picture shown is of his version one Alien Slaughter System which used three separate PIC chips. John is now working on version two of Alien Slaughter, the new system is being designed around a LEON2 Processor, this is a 32-bit processor using the SPARC architecture. This is what he said about the version one “After completing the

Xbox 360 ATX power supply

By now everyone has heard of the Xbox 360 issues with the power supplies. I don’t know what type of quality control or product testing was done on the Xbox 360 but there could have been more. Hackaday has an interesting solution to the problem. “Ran Mokady took a pretty big gamble with this project, but didn’t really have any other choice: his power supply was broken and he couldn’t