Step 3: With all of the controller’s original buttons and rubber membranes in place, you can pop-in 8BitDo’s replacement circuit board, making sure it’s seated properly.

8Bitdo's DIY Mod Kits let you replace the guts of your legacy and Classic Edition NES controllers with a Bluetooth-capable board that works with PCs, Macs, smartphones, and the Nintendo Switch.

A custom ATMEGA328P-powered board polls the controller’s SPI serial shift register in much the same way the original SNES would have. It then takes those button states and sends them out over ...

Like the Super Miniboss, 8bitdo’s SNES Classic gamepad takes almost no effort to set up. I had no problem syncing the wireless adaptor to the controller itself; it’s very much plug-and-play.

I don’t do this whole Nintendo Wii thing, but I know that if I downloaded some games on the Virtual Console, I’d want to use an actual SNES or NES controller to truly add to the retro-gaming ...

It’s a game of Snake implemented by an FPGA dev board. It uses a 16×16 LED matrix as the display and an SNES controller for input. So far it sounds like a very normal version of the game.

The SNES (or Super Famicom, depending on where you're from) controller is probably my favorite console controller. Unfortunately, the proprietary connector makes it difficult to use with newer ...

Tomorrow marks the release of the SNES Classic, the hot new holiday item from Nintendo that you will not be able to find on store shelves until after Christmas. It’s got 21 games on it, wow! It ...

8Bitdo's DIY Mod Kits let you replace the guts of your legacy and Classic Edition NES controllers with a Bluetooth-capable board that works with PCs, Macs, smartphones, and the Nintendo Switch.