King of Popstation

Description

Since City Fighter LCD game is the king of LCD games, it was a good candidate for making it into a freeform circuit sculpture. Not the best execution of the idea (as in the sketch in the pictures), but it combines connections between 2mm and 0.1mm copper wire and verything works as expected.
Anyone unfamiliar with the Popstation LCD games should watch some of the Ashens Youtube channel videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXleDSkB-g&list=PL045448E076CF3B69

Components

1 × 2mm Copper wire for the main structure

2 × Battery holder AA or AAA would do

1 × City Fighter LCD game or any other LCD game for that matter

8 × Push button for controls

Project Logs

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Final result
Benas • 01/07/2019 at 18:50 • 0 comments

After soldering all of the frame and connection a rebuilt handheld is finished. As ugly as the game itself:
Construction
Benas • 01/07/2019 at 18:44 • 0 comments

Game LCD and COB was inverted and super glued together to make a "game module". Then using 0.1mm copper strands connected to rest of the frame/circuit.
Frame was made out of 2 mm copper (ugly as to represent the actual game). Frame was used as ground in the circuit.
Disassembly
Benas • 01/07/2019 at 18:41 • 0 comments

After disassembly some short reverse engineering session ensued. All the buttons were mapped to their corresponding controller pins.
Take note of the 4 thick traces on the left of the COB. These are the game selection jumpers.
If shorted to ground the game is changed (You need a different LCD for that). This orange one is Soccer. I had Racing and of course City fighter (Brawler). City fighter is selected when no jumper is present.
That leaves an option for a 4th game. I wonder...
First idea
Benas • 01/07/2019 at 18:37 • 0 comments

This project was inspired by the Atari punk console. To make a freeform game, whether a full console of something similar. A sketch later the idea of King of Popstation was born.

Originally it supposed to be a 3 games controlled at the same time with the same controls, but due to technical and time constraints it did get reduced to a single game.

This is the original LCD game that was used for the project: