--- title: NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade | daily.dev description: A maker named Aaron has modded a 1987 NES Advantage arcade stick to work wirelessly with modern systems using a custom PCB and an ESP32-WROOM-32E. The mod adds... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nes-advantage-stick-gets-bluetooth-upgrade-wwjmy5vqt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade | daily.dev og:description: A maker named Aaron has modded a 1987 NES Advantage arcade stick to work wirelessly with modern systems using a custom PCB and an ESP32-WROOM-32E. The mod adds... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nes-advantage-stick-gets-bluetooth-upgrade-wwjmy5vqt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WwjMy5Vqt.png og:image:alt: NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade 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. # NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker named Aaron has modded a 1987 NES Advantage arcade stick to work wirelessly with modern systems using a custom PCB and an ESP32-WROOM-32E. The mod adds Bluetooth connectivity without cutting the case or adding new holes, preserving all original controls including Turbo and Slow Motion. Power comes from a LiPo cell with a TP4056 charger and TPS63900 buck-boost converter. The stick can emulate a Nintendo Switch Pro Controller over Bluetooth Classic or act as a standard BLE gamepad for PCs, SteamOS, and phones. It can also still work with an original NES via an 8BitDo NES Retro Receiver. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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