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dangiu / PicoMemcard

Emulating PSX Memory Card (or controller) using a Raspberry Pi Pico
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Pico Pi W #9

Closed Androxilogin closed 1 year ago

Androxilogin commented 2 years ago

Wondering if this project will be supporting this wireless feature implemented in these new boards. That would be awesome!

dangiu commented 2 years ago

Perhaps, I haven't really thought about it. For now I can't really see any way the wireless features could improve the project (beside transferring wirelessly memory card images, but that would probably require some sort of web server with an interface and I'm not sure the Pico W is powerful enough to handle that).

Do you have any specific suggestion on what you would like to see done with that?

Androxilogin commented 2 years ago

I was thinking something simple like just the memory card announcing itself on the network as a wifi signal. What would be ideal is a network share similar to the way ready share devices work; can be mapped within explorer for easy access. Then users could drag and drop certain saves or whole memory cards. But that's probably out of the question.

Otherwise, maybe just adding a config file with a field to fill in credentials of the existing wifi network along with a static IP then a client-side gui with options like read or write.

Anarky commented 1 year ago

Another possibility: the Pico W uses the CYW43439, which supports Bluetooth, though it's not enabled yet. A PS3 controller uses Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, and the CYW43439 supports it.

It just discovered the BlueRetro project which uses an ESP32 to connect various controllers to various consoles.

What would be crazy would be to have a memory card and controller adapter in a single board, but I'm not sure if the Pico can handle it.

Androxilogin commented 1 year ago

It just discovered the BlueRetro project which uses an ESP32 to connect various controllers to various consoles.

I wanted to do that project soo bad for a while since I don't have a GameCube Controller. I just modded both of my GameCubes with a Pico AND I used my ESP32 for my PS4. That would definitely be cool to see the new Picos compatible with that project.

dangiu commented 1 year ago

Definetly something worth looking into