--- title: Making A Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch | daily.dev description: A hobbyist built a retro-style game console from scratch called Game Console V2, deliberately avoiding modern shortcuts. Key design choices include physical... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-retro-ish-game-console-from-scratch-ltbc64ddx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making A Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch | daily.dev og:description: A hobbyist built a retro-style game console from scratch called Game Console V2, deliberately avoiding modern shortcuts. Key design choices include physical... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-retro-ish-game-console-from-scratch-ltbc64ddx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lTBC64dDX.png og:image:alt: Making A Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making A Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hobbyist built a retro-style game console from scratch called Game Console V2, deliberately avoiding modern shortcuts. Key design choices include physical cartridges with ROMs on a parallel bus, composite AV output (no VGA), and NTSC signal generation via an RP2350 MCU (PGA2350 board) wired into a 6-bit R-2R network for RGB332 output. Audio is handled by a PCM5102A I2S DAC, and controllers use 4-pin Bulgin connectors with an N64-compatible protocol. The current RP2350B MCU is a placeholder — the planned V3 aims to use a proper 8- or 16-bit CPU for a more authentic retro architecture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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