Hello! I'm not necesarrily a newb to NES, but I am to tinkering with electronics. I have just bought a Japanese Power glove which uses the famicom's 15 pin expansion port. Now, I am wondering how I could use this on my current NES. It is a NES one. I have been looking on google for pin-out data and such, but alas, it is all pretty much gibberish to be and such I think I may funk up my NES or power glove if I try something w/o your guys help. If this has been partially answered in another thread or something, I do not mind If you direct me to it. Also, I know I could get an american power glove for suprisingly cheap since they aren't in high demand, but I find the jap version to be cooler, plus not many have seen it before. Came CIB (I believe, manual, box, styro, all connectors, but for some reason only one part of the box came, but for 20 bucks, I think I can deal) so I am very happy. I hope someone can help, thanks in advance! Hello! I'm not necesarrily a newb to NES, but I am to tinkering with electronics. I have just bought a Japanese Power glove which uses the famicom's 15 pin expansion port. Now, I am wondering how I could use this on my current NES. It is a NES one. I have been looking on google for pin-out data and such, but alas, it is all pretty much gibberish to be and such I think I may funk up my NES or power glove if I try something w/o your guys help. If this has been partially answered in another thread or something, I do not mind If you direct me to it. Also, I know I could get an american power glove for suprisingly cheap since they aren't in high demand, but I find the jap version to be cooler, plus not many have seen it before. Came CIB (I believe, manual, box, styro, all connectors, but for some reason only one part of the box came, but for 20 bucks, I think I can deal) so I am very happy. I hope someone can help, thanks in advance!I wrote to someone who wrote an article on this once and here is his reply:
Hope you're only going to want to use this with Famicom games...
Quote:
I'll see if I can update the Four Score and take a new photo of it, but I
added a couple of switches and wires to one so that I could toggle between
NES and Famicom games.
If I recall correctly... I cut the tracers on the PCB between D0 and the
IC for P2 and P4, then added a switch to connect them when I wanted to
play US games. In the other position, I had wires go from the switch down
to the underside of the NES, into the expansion port's D1 lines for PORT1
& 2. To plug them in, I busted an old PCB-gripping floppy drive connector
in half, then wedged it into the slot. To make it look nice, I eventually
installed those wires run into a stereo jack I installed on the front of
the NES.
The other switch ran CLK to the P2 and P4 controller ports... With US
games, the IC send 8 CLKs to P1, then another 8 to P2, but since we need
them at the same time on both ports for Japanese games, this fixes that
problem.
added a couple of switches and wires to one so that I could toggle between
NES and Famicom games.
If I recall correctly... I cut the tracers on the PCB between D0 and the
IC for P2 and P4, then added a switch to connect them when I wanted to
play US games. In the other position, I had wires go from the switch down
to the underside of the NES, into the expansion port's D1 lines for PORT1
& 2. To plug them in, I busted an old PCB-gripping floppy drive connector
in half, then wedged it into the slot. To make it look nice, I eventually
installed those wires run into a stereo jack I installed on the front of
the NES.
The other switch ran CLK to the P2 and P4 controller ports... With US
games, the IC send 8 CLKs to P1, then another 8 to P2, but since we need
them at the same time on both ports for Japanese games, this fixes that
problem.
Hope you're only going to want to use this with Famicom games...
ugh, so I guess the only easy way to use this would just to get an AV famicom. okay, whatever! Even tho I have two famicom games, It doesn't sound worth it considering I have no Idea what I would be doing. Thanks anyways! Least I have a really cool collectors item!