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Hacking abandoned technologies (SNES, FamiCom)

Published on December 7, 2013

Experiments in circuit bending of old Nintendo machines & live performance at Animateka festival:

• First I try to bend NES Famicom, to create 16bit random graphics

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I soldered wires on video RAM chips and route them to breadboard for future modification:

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On this image I try to connect it to external synth Novadrone (by Casper electronics) to give an image some modulation and rhitmic movement

• • • • •

When sadly realising I fried my friends’ FamiCom, because I was too ambitious and try to connect vram chips with other chips I was in a hunt for another machine.

I got another SNES, because I had visual performance at the night the same day.

Vram chips are a bit smaller, but logic is the same.

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This time I decided to protect other chips with tape, to avoid fatal mistakes.

• Public performance of these live visuals were presented at Animateka’s Animated nights @Klub Gromka on Metelkova 28.nov after amazing “Groovy Cartoon Session”(Dirty Hairy, Bakto)

Music: DJ Woo-D (Good Foot)



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Graphics were controllable with manipulating circuit on breadboard with capacitors, resistors, light resistors, LED,…and with controlling(playing) of the video game.

Thanks to Peter from Casperelectronics

Reference (thanks): https://vimeo.com/7001965

 

• Tilen

For more info and colaborations do not hesitate to contact me: tilen(at)sepic.cc

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