You can get many of the old NES games for the DS, however they just don’t feel the same. sure your hands still cramp up, however its just not the exact same cramp we remember. What is the solution? put an old Nintendo home entertainment System controller on your DS. [Parker] did precisely that. The technique he utilized is relatively strait forward. He opened the DS, wired extensions onto the buttons he wished to utilize to a controller. instead of making it long-term though, he selected to cable it with the GBA slot. This enables him to plug the controller in whenever he wishes to utilize it. This reminds us of the PSP with a SNES controller we covered back in October.
You can see a video of it in action after the break. You’ll notice in the video, he has likewise modded his buttons to have LEDs behind them.
In the comments, [tri-edge] explains that you can comply with his develop in the acidmods forum. There seem to be some other variations as well, including an SNES controller.