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Posted Apr 29th 2012 11:01 A.M. by Brian Benchoff
Kyle and an a few of his classmates are wrapping up a micro-controller interfacing class at Purdue, and thought it best to send in the results of their efforts. It’s a version of Super Smash Bros. made by just bit-banging pins on a micro-controller.
The hardware for the project is based around a Freescale 9S12c32, an updated version of the 30-year-old M68HC11 micro-controller. For the controls, the guys used a PlayStation 2 joystick and buttons housed in an Altoids box, and the actual console is made out of strips of wood stapled together to look like a crate from Super Smash Bros.
There are nine playable characters: Pikachu, Captain Falcon, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Mario, Luigi, Link, Kirby, and Fox. Despite these characters being only four pixels high, the game looks extremely playable (at least when two players don’t choose the same character). All the code is up on GitHub for your perusal.
Kyle and an a few of his classmates are wrapping up a micro-controller interfacing class at Purdue, and thought it best to send in the results of their efforts. It’s a version of Super Smash Bros. made by just bit-banging pins on a micro-controller.
The hardware for the project is based around a Freescale 9S12c32, an updated version of the 30-year-old M68HC11 micro-controller. For the controls, the guys used a PlayStation 2 joystick and buttons housed in an Altoids box, and the actual console is made out of strips of wood stapled together to look like a crate from Super Smash Bros.
There are nine playable characters: Pikachu, Captain Falcon, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Mario, Luigi, Link, Kirby, and Fox. Despite these characters being only four pixels high, the game looks extremely playable (at least when two players don’t choose the same character). All the code is up on GitHub for your perusal.