Nokipad (nokia 3650 joypad mod)

misjah · Post by **misjah** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:40 am

Symbian phones have a lot of nice games and especially emulators but with their original keyboard these games are almost impossible to play (except for ngage)... so I decided to mod my old 3650 and add a Sony play station game pad. This project is pretty much simple and you don`t even need schematic for the phone. I know that this is very old phone and has a problem with small RAM but a lot of emulators are working pretty good, especially game boy emulator.... so here`s some pics of my project....

Inside the joypad....

I completely cut off the IC to avoid problems with key signals.... drill some holes parallel with original buttons (about four buttons have a common wire which will reduce the number of all wires needed).
The case of the phone is fixed with two small screws....

misjah · Post by **misjah** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:46 am

And here are some emulators prevew....

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:29 pm

That is just great!

I never knew there are EMUs available for the mobiles?

misjah · Post by **misjah** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:45 pm

Yep, symbian is a great OS, so far I have tested a bunch of emulators including commodore64, ZXspectrum, MSX1 and MSX2, sega sms - game gear - genesis/32, nes - snes, game boy - color - advance and there`s even Palm OS and x386 emulator.... they all work great but with new edition phones such as N95 and other s60v3 units....

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:49 pm

Do phones have a *cough* PS1 emulator?

palmertech · Post by **palmertech** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:53 pm

Yep. Someone actually gave Zottd (The gp2x and iphone PSX dev) a Nokia N95 so he would write one.

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:51 pm

That's so cool!

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:26 am

That thing's awesome! If you were to somehow make the integration more seamless, like cutting the top half of the phone case off and bondoing it to the top of the PSX controller, it would truly be gorgeous. From a functionality standpoint, though, this is a very clever implementation.

misjah · Post by **misjah** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:22 am

I intended to do that but didn`t have much time and just wanted to check how it will work.... I will mod nokia 6600 next (as soon as I find a cheap one) and will be able to play even n-gage games (6600 is much faster and has a lot of RAM)....

kasar · Post by **kasar** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:56 am

nice mod, a cell phone turned into a gaming system using a psx controller

, it seems more confortable.

anyway IÂ´m curius about how you call someone using the modded cell phone, or put the device back into your pocket.

nah, seriously nice mod.

sadly I still having a siemens c60 old cell phone. ^^

DK · Post by DK » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:02 am

Great mod

I'll stick to my N-Gage though