Battle of the Old SK00L: Nintendo meets Simon

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Battle of the Old SK00LNintendo meets Simon

• Jason Rosenthal
• Troy Latchman

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Objective

• To simulate the Simon game with an original
  Nintendo remote control. The player will observe
  a lighted sequence on a monitor and try to press
  those same buttons on their controller.

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Equipment
Genuine NES controller
Altera Development Board
DevaSys USB I/O Interface
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Project
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Hardware Operation

• Altera board generates Latch and Clock signals
  for NES controller.
• Altera board reads the data serially from NES
  controller, using a FSM.
• Altera board has the serial data ready in
  parallel form for DevaSys USB interface.
• USB interface communicates with C API and Simon
  software.

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Hardware
Altera Graphic View
Data(7..0) Out
Data In
Latch Out
Clock Out
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Oscilloscope Screenshots
12us Latch
8 12us Clocks
No Data
Data is active low
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Hardware
DevaSys USB Pinout
NES Serial Data
B, Start, Left
Data is active low
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Software Setup

• Borland C Compiler v5.5 for Windows
• Qt v3.3.3 Evaluation Software for Windows
• MaxPlus II Student Edition Software
• USB I2cIo driver files
• UsbI2cIo API dll file explicitly linked in C
  code
• UsbI2cIo API header file

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The C Code

• moc_qdisplay.h
• nintendo.cpp - the main program
• nintendo.pro - needed by qmake which is a utility
  bundled with the Qt software
• qdisplay.cpp
• qdisplay.h
• USB.h - explicitly links nintendo.cpp to the
  UsbI2cIo API DLL functions
• UsbI2cIo.dll - dynamically linked library
  provided by Devasys
• USBI2CIO.H - header file provided by Devasys
• These files were created by George F. Riley
  (for use in ECE3090).
• The files create an interface to the Qt
  software which simplifies the Qt
• function calls.

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The Simon Game
Two windows are needed to play the Qt frame with
the picture of a Nintendo controller and the
command prompt. The command prompt display
helpful messages to the player, such as their
score and a history of buttons pressed.
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Rules

• The player will observe a lighted random sequence
  that Simon generates on the Nintendo GUI. The
  number of keys in the sequence is the level
  number that the player is currently on. The
  sequence of a particular level is the same
  sequence as the previous level, with just 1 more
  key appended to the end of the sequence.
• It is up to the user to key in that same sequence
  using the Nintendo controller in his/her hand. It
  is important to note that the user must not only
  press the same sequences of keys, but also press
  the keys for approximately the same duration that
  Simon did. The key press duration is constant for
  every level and decreases as the player
  progresses through the levels.
• The game will end at the first player mistake
  (pressing a wrong key or pressing the correct key
  for the wrong duration).
• The player must complete 20 levels in order to
  beat the game.