Instructables user Jason1820 rewired his Game Boy Advance to accept controller inputs from a Dance Dance Revolution controller, creating the weirdest way to play Pac-Man since the board game. The resulting monstrosity is neither a console nor a handheld, and is really unsuitable for anything but being insane. Thus, we love it.
This guy rewired the circuitry on his GBA to take an external controller, and one that was meant for another system at that. Then he wrote up detailed instructions on how to do it yourself, and added pictures. Meanwhile we couldn't muster the wherewithal to make dinner today, and we'd barely know how to turn on the GBA without the instruction manual.
[Via Wonderland]
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12-13-2007 @ 10:19AM
gevenstaines said...
wow great job!
by the title, i was expecting a GBA homebrew DDR, but i guess you can play a lot of games.
(why is he bent forward while playing? cord too short? that doesn't look comfy, and seems like an easy problem to fix)
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12-13-2007 @ 1:12PM
Brello said...
I own the pac-man board game. It's a pain to set up and isn't very fun. The DDR pad would be much more fun.
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12-13-2007 @ 3:48PM
Jared said...
I used to play the Pac-Man board game when I was 4 or 5! Wow. That was an odd flashback.
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12-14-2007 @ 12:51AM
chispito said...
He's smart enough to make that work, but he made the cord three feet long?
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12-14-2007 @ 12:53AM
chispito said...
oh wait, I see. Probably just easier to see the DDR pad that way. Interesting concept.
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12-14-2007 @ 9:26AM
Cory Anotado said...
C'mon, gang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Dance_Revolution_(Game_Boy_versions)
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