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I was wondering if it is possible to actualy have the NES Pad rumble like how new console controllers do.


Also I was thinking of doing that to a Zapper as well. If you just cut the wire for the trigger and solder in a motor. that way it is like a gun sortve...

I would like to know what type of motor would be POWerfull enough but not use up too much of the POWer. Also it would have to fit in the NES Controller some how so I do not think that would work, but for the Zapper it should have enough room in the handle..

I don't know exactly what kind of motor is required, but as much as I know it it's just a motor with a pin coming out of it and a weight on it that spins.

That being said, I have a remote control car that runs on 6 AA batteries.

More of what I don't know, batteries product 1.5V of POWer. 6 in parallel, produce 6x that? I'm not sure.

The NES Zapper has a 5V input wire. So I don't think it's out of the question for that kind of motor. I'm sure you could find these sort of things at hobby shops or online somewhere. USB runs on 5V as well, so the amount of POWer shouldn't be that big of a deal, unless the gun requires a ton.

Sorry, I dont have any real info.

I'm not sure that you can have a NES rumble controller because the NES was never built to send data signals to a controller telling it when to rumble. However for in the case of the zapper it might be possible to wire a rumble motor from a N64 rumble pack or any other conroller to the trigger of the zapper. The trigger would act like a switch so that every time it was pulled it would complete your circuit and POWer the motor giving you a shake. This would cause the gun to rumble every time you pulled it so its not like it could be used as a signal showing that you shot or missed the duck in Duckhunt. I don't know if that would work but thats the only idea I can think of.

Well, Your best bet with the zapper would be to solder to the pins on the switch inside of there. that'll only get you a very short quick little shake (depending on the type of motor and size of the weight, maybe only one rotation). But I'm not absolutely sure that would work either, there's some circuitry in there that I haven't messed with, and I'm not sure it's a full 5v running through the switch.

Interesting concept, and good luck with it.

Here's a link about building a rumble mouse. The motor the author uses is an old cell phone vibrator motor. However, the vibration it puts out isn't quite what you want I think.
I believe cell phones vibrate very fast and don't produce a shake quite like the kick that you would want in a light gun.

But it's a good read that is semi-related to topic.