Awesome!!

Yes, emulating two controllers at once shouldn't be a problem at all - in fact, with the extra I/O of something like an Arduino Mega attached to 6 shift registers you could emulate all four controllers and the Four Score interface itself at the same time!

Sync with cynthcart sounds exciting too! Another project I had in mind was using the Family Basic keyboard for a NES-based cynthcart-type synth!

This is why I wanted the 'beatbox' cart.  I was going to sync it via MCTRL.

uXe I am down and would love to collaborate on this!

Believe it or not the project I am currently working on is something very similar but with regards to syncing the nesk-1 and cynthcart. I am working on updating the cynthcart code to send an 8 bit value out through the c64's user port.  Then update the nesk-1 code to read that value through the nes controller.

I like the On/Off & Note # format you mentioned, and it would totally work for both projects.

Just brainstorming but would you be able to send a second value out? Then we could use controller 2 to change some settings via midi as well.

this is insanely awesome!

HeavyW8bit - I was wondering if you would be interested in adapting NESK-1 to make a MIDI version for use with my FamiiDI code? What I have in mind is that instead of reading in the 8 bits of Controller 1 as an eight note scale, I could tweak the FamiiDI code to assign a byte containing a MIDI Note Number to the eight controller buttons - immediately increasing NESK-1's range from 8 notes to 128 notes!

So when reading from Controller 1, bits 6 to 0 would represent a MIDI Note value between 0 and 127, and then bit 7 could be used to represent Note On / Off - what do you think?

I was making plans to write my own MIDI-controlled NES synth from scratch, and realised I would want to include all of the features of NESK-1 - so I figured it couldn't hurt to see if you would be open to collaborating on an adapted version? I would be more than happy to do all of the work on the Arduino side of things!

I wrote an email to HeavyW8bit but he never replyed. So: Is there any possibility to grab a cartridge for PAL, or a ROM of it?
I would really appreciate this ._.

More NES Dev! This looks sweet!

this is AWEOSME. It's pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. I'm glad people are making stuff like this. Can't wait till its done!

very cool!

there really is a huge demand for NES music tools right now. this is a huge accomplishment. thank you.

2011: Year of the NES (Part II)

This demands a full NES Orchestra.

This looks awesome, I need one of those controller splitter things...

NESK-1!!!