Making the MP4 player a Monitor

afzal · #1 (**permalink**) 26th Nov 2007, 12:25 pm

Well I just got a thought can i make my mp4 player a monitor or something...

My mp4 player runs the games of Nintendo (*.NES) and i m a final year student of Computer Science...so I thought there might be a way to build a .NES file which can perform the operations as we program it..

But i know its a long shot but is there any Possibility or not ?? :roll:

crazy.neo · #2 (**permalink**) 26th Nov 2007, 1:05 pm

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Originally Posted by afzal";p=&quot

Well I just got a thought can i make my mp4 player a monitor or something...

My mp4 player runs the games of Nintendo (*.NES) and i m a final year student of Computer Science...so I thought there might be a way to build a .NES file which can perform the operations as we program it..

But i know its a long shot but is there any Possibility or not ?? :roll:

From what I know, those emulators are graphics I/O only, generally have no math operations (made in the ROM image) and because of this crash or have errors while emulating. You best shot is to program the firmware itself. But I doubt you can do what you propose...

afzal · #3 (**permalink**) 26th Nov 2007, 1:10 pm

ok..i c..
but there may be possibility to have some sort of calculator or any other application built on .NES becuse the emulator uses the CPU and I/O

and i dont want to touch the firmware i am too afraid to make my player dead !!

thnx for the info

crazy.neo · #4 (**permalink**) 26th Nov 2007, 1:15 pm

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Originally Posted by afzal";p=&quot

ok..i c..
but there may be possibility to have some sort of calculator or any other application built on .NES becuse the emulator uses the CPU and I/O

and i dont want to touch the firmware i am too afraid to make my player dead !!

thnx for the info

If you can program a game it should be doable (most of these players also run hacked games). But you must understand that you are very limited in the operations you can make... But yeas, something like a calculator or text parser would be doable.

lattesurf · #5 (**permalink**) 26th Nov 2007, 5:57 pm

i guess i'll have to agree on that. If you are able to code up a software in .nes for that player's hardware, then likely it would work.

Generally NES emulators (PCs or your player) "decodes" the NES roms into instructions "recognizable" by the PC or player. So if you understand how an emulator works, it might be easier to get the your software working.

Perhaps you might want to look/decompile some NES emulators available on the net as they are probably using the same decoding technique as on your player. Or even look for some guide on coding your own NES emulator.

afzal · #6 (**permalink**) 27th Nov 2007, 10:31 am

Thnx i think i will do something on that after my Exams !!