I Created a (terrible) Video Game Console
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- I know nothing about electronics, but thought it'd be fun to try create a (super simple and extremely terrible) video game console.
I was inspired to start experimenting with this after stumbling across the fascinating videos of @BenEater. If you found this video at all interesting, I'd highly recommend taking a look at his channel for some much more advanced stuff!
If you'd like to help me create more videos, you can support the channel on Patreon over here: / sebastianlague
The source code for this project (console/game scripts + Unity music editor) is probably not of much interest to anyone, but you can take a look here if you want: github.com/SebLague/Monster-C...
LED control library:
www.wayoda.org/arduino/ledcont...
Music from filmmusic.io
"Twisting" and "Perspectives" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:17 Arduino Uno
0:37 Joystick Input
2:53 High Definition Display
3:29 Audio
4:36 Coding Some Games
6:05 Constructing the Console
7:53 It's Alive!
Hello, I thought I'd try something a little different for fun, but will be back with some more regular content soon!
I was inspired to start experimenting with this stuff after I stumbled across this channel: ua-cam.com/users/beneater Ben does really interesting and impressive projects like creating an 8-bit computer, so I highly recommend taking a look.
If you know of any other cool channels for this stuff, please share them with me!
wow i just found him to hes really good
Sebastian Lague you should continue upgrading the console it’s a really different video, but in a good way
you should do a follow up of this and try and create an emulator (by reverse engineering the exported code, not the raw code, so its a PROPER emulator and not just a renderer for the code). if you want to that is :P
The video was great! And I hope you will consider making more of this kind of content as I enjoyed it very much. I would recomend to use an Arduino Nano or Pro Mini if you have problems with finding space as it is much smaller.
I would recomend this channel: m.ua-cam.com/channels/mkP178NasnhR3TWQyyP4Gw.html
I've also been on a bit of an electronics binge recently and I've found this amazing video:
ua-cam.com/video/dTGOEe8f8ls/v-deo.html
It's what you did, except 1000000x more complex and cool.
"I'm taking a break so I'm making a video game console."
You are one beautiful god damn nerd.
a break from intense programming not a break from his life!
@@etanjax almost any programming can get intense, if you're dedicated enough
@@itsksm426 no,skill, yeah sure, i'd like to see you doing half of this from scrach like it s nothing
@@itsksm426 *waits patiently for your vid on this*
@@itsksm426 I was actually about to come to your defense and say something like, "Yeah, it's not all that hard, other than the programming you can learn most/all of this in a couple weeks, the bigger deal is that he actually did it," but then you had to go and insult the other guy. I suggest trying a bit more respect, it really does help with online interactions.
The new switch looks promising!
Dani?
Why are you watch everything I watch?!
I’d call it the Nintendo Lite *Lite*
I know right! The design and everything!
Dani! Fan
Can yall tell me who the hell this is
"I am strangely proud of this little monstrosity I've created..."
My mother said the same thing about me.
Are you okay or do you need therapy?
@@doty12468 yes
@@doty12468 r/ihavereddit
Wait your mom said she’s proud of you???!!!
@@doty12468 r/ILiketoMakepeopleFeelBad
"I know the end result is not impressive" DUDE YOU MADE A CONSOLE FROM SCRATCH, that's insane
That's what i said too. Lol
I blame Sony and Microsoft. They give unrealistic expectations of what an engineer's console should look like, and when we can't live up to the standards of society, we get depressed and self destructive.
@@jakehix8132 YES! consoles could had taken an open source approach, with every component replicable. Custom hand-crafted technology would be commonplace
HE MADE A CONSOLE FROM SCRATCH!
*how*
Nice
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Is this the new google stadia I keep hearing about lately
If they had told me _this_ was how it would look, I would have signed up in an instant!
WE CAN DO WE CAN DO WE CAN DO WHAT WE WAAAANT
No, this thing actually seems to work, lol.
@@shrekrecker lolol
Might as well be
“Strangely proud” dude if I could do something like this I’d be through the roof on pride. You’re truly gifted
You can do this. More than half the battle is determination =P
@@jakehix8132 naw money is half of the battle
@@Pam234 materials used are like 1/4th of a 100$ starting kit, but you're not wrong.
@@jakehix8132 true I’m never wrong… Lol but ya I agree
@@jakehix8132 you are both wrong. Time is half the battle. Ya can't do this if you don't have the time to learn how, much less actually build it
If you do have the time and the want, you can do this its not that hard objectively speaking, but you'll have to spend a lot of time
And to think Soulja Boy didn't even put in this effort into his "console".
What Soulja boy had a game console when?
@@mergingbutterfly look up soulja game
He used DVD readers and made. Them crappy bassicaly
Man you've got so many skills. Tbh I was surprised to hear that you've never worked with C/C++ seeing how well versed you are in computer graphics and whatnot.
i have agreed
this looks like something that a kid in a cartoon would play because the animators don’t know what video games look like
xD so true
Why does that sound so true
Cartoons: **kid playing 8-bit game**
Reality: **kid playing fortnite, stealing credit card for V-bux, then rage cause he was bad and calling everyone hackers**
@@mrvoid3002 pretty much
@@mrvoid3002 one time i beat someone in a game, i said gg they said
"hacker"
i said "sore loser"
but it was roblox so it got censored
i said "youre just salty u lost"
censored
"toxic"
not censored
Would have made millions if it was 50 years ago
Joel Mount facts
If all the hardware and frameworks that he is working with would have been established by then
1970? Wow, you're right!
@Lightway Animated Pictures yes
Lightway Animated Productions too much
Funny, today I was thinking to myself "How do I combine woodworking and programming into my ideal career?" - You answered my question haha!
I vaguely remember doing something like this as a kid with my father. Good times.
Damn.
you probably had the time of your life on that thing. maybe it’s still there, but who knows?
can it run doom tho?
Does something impressive
Sebastian: I know the end result isn’t impressive
Just putting few electronics together :-D
He said that right when I saw this comment
lol. When I was bored on my vacation I've made a better "console" while literally sitting on a beach. And I didn't even had much experience with arduino.
It's really not impressive
@@fritt_wastaken cool nobody asked
@@fritt_wastaken It's pretty impressive to me. I couldn't even begin to comprehend what he is doing
2019 : Making a little atari type console
2041 : Remaking the PS5
Oh so he made a router
Yea
“a more elaborate project”
No, 2100
More like PS20
As a kid with ADHD, and boy oh boy would I love to have this-
It's so simple, easy, and yet it still is entertaining enough to keep me busy for a long time!
Thats if you are really that boring person who doesnt know any better.
I'd start it and never work on it for 3 years and then stare at it and finish it and never use it
Same
The most intense game of snake I’ve ever seen.
"terrible"
You just made a working game console, thats better than most people can do
terrible for his abbilities he meant i guess
Wow smartass
I am trying to code a game but I have no pc so I’m trying out a python coder app for my 2nd gen ipad
@@2chill2bbored72 Keep on it boy 👍
@@2chill2bbored72 Hopefully, you won't make it because you don't deserve a chance considering the fact that you don't even have a computer lol
Sebastian Lague: "I'm taking a break"
Also Sebastian Lague: *Proceeds to create a discount switch*
I want to do this
So true
This is so cook dude. I've never seen anyone so simply explain start to finish the entire process they use to build a computer. That was awesome
This is great, it may be super simple about a level below the T mobile snake games but it just shows how much goes into it and what you’ve learned out of it. I’d love to do a project like this to better understand
The real question is:
Does it run doom?
Can it run *Minecraft* ? 🤔 🤔
But can it run Crysis?
idk but he could try connecting way too many of screens and use it as a monitor
Should’ve added Conway’s Game of Life.
Beta Vulgaris A very simplistic program like that might work on this thing.
3:20 "...to give players the extravagant wide screen experience they deserve!" :-D
Oh, I understood "White Screen"
@@SeBi-lv3de you mean circels
@@SeBi-lv3de es sind Kreise keine Pixels ok sonst zerbreche ich dich Stock
Man... I LOVE YOU! Like BIG TIME!!
Just seeing you work on this, hearing you talk about it, fills me with pure joy. Thank you for making these videos. I love you. So much.
Another good video. I don't know much about electronics either but I think I learnt something. Again, good video and I will be watching more of your stuff.
His (terrible) console: this
My console: a sheet of cardboard with black square painted on it
My console: a literal banana
My console : a cardboard box with the letter X on it
My console is just my notebook with bunch of stickmen holding guns.
My console: paper
BLANK PAGE • 12 years ago same lol
Sebastian: "I know nothing about electronics"
Also Sebastian: *Proceeds to make a literal handheld from code*
The electronics are pretty easy, the code is harder
Electronics != code
Electronics can be confusing, but for this, it's simple.
@@alicemybeloved mine? Really??? Nice
@@SargeCharge I enjoy it, Everyone thinks Im an einstein
@@SargeCharge coding lol
i really love your try on the electronics and case :D good job!
I made a game console with an arduino uno using the same joystick and a 16x12 lcd text screen, it has two modes , attack and defend, it was a fun little project, yours is way better though
That's a 128px screen, more than my PC can run without dying.
Wait a sec how can you tell it’s a 128 if your pc can’t handle that many pixels
@@coltenrice4907 audio
HOW
MY IPAD CAN ONNLY HANDEL 63 PIXLES
mine can't even handle 25
What's your rig
Friend: What are you playing?
Me: My Monstrosity
@@timosipila544 No u
Ihmisen Kuva I think this comment can pass since it’s an appropriate use of it, but the oversaturation of it is really annoying.
@@timosipila544 i know how u feel
Especially in Mr.Beasts's comments its annoying
Ograk the Monkey Hunter yeah mr beast’s comment section is the WORST
Musicman928 “me at the zoo” has the worst comment section I’ve ever seen lmao
Love this so much. Although I never actually go beyond beginner Arduino. Thanks Sebastian.
Do more of these, I loved this video!
I’d buy it.
I like the “homemade” feel.
they should add butterflies
You mean "artisan" feel.
i lost my gameboy, i think some 6 year old took it
@@Defenestration_ :(
@Entity dude just read what they are actually saying , these are the components for the console
Thanks for educating my son! And thanks for Dani commenting to ensure his fans found this on their recommendations page. Long live UA-cam!
Ikr
@Nicholas Garcia who dani?
@Nicholas Garcia which dani are you talking about
My 12 year old found your video online and sent it to me. Today we made this together from your code and video. We still need to make the box, but the rest is working. Thank you!! He's very excited!
Pretty amazing! I hope I had the chance to build one of that as a project, when I was in college.
Now i wonder how it feels to play your own creation
Like while you playing it you think "i made this"
It would be awesome
I think i might try. Get all the program bugy and end up putting my phone in a baddly designed case for the game. I tryed to learn, but i'm as good as my cats can be on atempting to make that.
@@shiftless215 Yeah and I get that feeling playing my own games but I imagine it's amplified when you also made the console
I have not made a game in a very long time, but it is an interesting experience, to say the least. In some ways, it is great. In other ways, it is not satisfying at all. Like, it can be great to marvel at seeing everything in motion, doing exactly what it was supposed to do. But you can never really find yourself immersed in it the way you can as a normal gamer. You know what, where, and why everything is the way it is, and there is no "magic" in it. Instead, you just wind up thinking of ways you might change or add to it. Worse, the effect bleeds over into other games. You begin focusing more on the potential what, where, how and why (imagining behind the scenes stuff), how you might do things differently, and so on, than you do falling into your own actual gameplay experience. So, it can be a bit of a mixed bag.
As a game programmer, all I see are the bugs I need to fix and the stuff I need to add. It is a 1000 times more rewarding to see others playing your game than playing it yourself imo.
“I am making a next gen console here”
Cannot WAIT for thirdparties comming up with their games
Beyond cool little project!
I died at the extravagant widescreen gag! Would love to see more little projects like this, the way you explained a potentiometer so simply was something my electronics teacher was never able to do, thank you so much ^^
I am so in love with this little monster box snake dot shooting machine
Awesome video. I Wish I had half the talent you have with programming. Very cool project.
"I know the end result is not terribly impressive" Dude if that isnt impressive then I cant imagine what will be.
Well, it isn't that impressive. Could I build something better? No. Could he build something better? Yes. Could most trained electrotechincs build something better? With the right tools, yes
@@cdfactory Why?
@@cdfactory well you know, the thing is kind of simple, its pretty cool, but not super impressive
The nintendo switch or vr or vrlcraft
"It runs Doom!"
"I'm building a next gen console, and this will not fly"
@Jacob Verchot The future of gaming is looking super neat.
This inspired me to start making games n stuff again, Thanks!
1:49 "Slightly Odly computer" That alien teck there Sebastian
Me: *looks at title*
*Laughs in Stadia*
sadia is a failure
@@sdani. yes *sadia* is a failure
@@sdani. s a d i a
@@Flower-bu9my i hate sadia
images.app.goo.gl/XjapZUYyZrZonRd38
I can't believe EA has started making consoles!
You have to pay 9.99 for every button
@@NeossologyB you nave to pay 100 for exist
Xddddd
EA did not make this, the creator of this device did
person who ruins the joke aw man
Only a matter of time untill someone does r/woosh
Not everyone can make their own digital games like you
GREAT JOB MAN!! hope you can make your own game one day
*This is what I wanted*
*Thanks for making this video*
When your parents don't allow you to buy a console, but your father brings in a cheap substitute when you force them to buy one.
You are the reason I became a progammer, you are sort of a hero to me.
My friend put together a computer for his science project bc he was inspired by Sebastian
I know you want read this, but this is a top tier video, everything from thumbnail, to the transitions and the actual content. Good week keep it up
I never would have guessed what a potentiometer would be, but in retrospective view, it makes so much sense!
Google Stadia: Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!
Stadia would probably screw up consols too, just because it's google
5:45 Being somewhat of a C++ programmer myself, seeing that monstrosity kinda made me shudder and brought flashbacks of
_Segmentation fault (core dump)_
The video was really good regardless.
Just realized that you also made this video, thought i first watched you programming your earth game, but this also was a great one
Thank you so much! My son learns a lot with you! You’re a real inspiration for thriving minds!
4:24 I love how he put song in quotation marks
"...just wired together some pre-built components and shove them inside them a poorly constructed box..." - Well, you are basically describing an IBM PC from which most desktop and laptop computers are still based today.
Ok Boomer.
@@intensellylit4100 I don't think you are using that correctly. I'm praising his work, not complaining about it.
@@TrueNachoBoomer ok.
@@intensellylit4100 Again, you are using it wrong. I think you are too old to use that, you are like Steve Bucemi in the Fellow Kids meme.
@@TrueNacho this was funny, but I can't do this forever. Get trolled fam.
I remember a lot of the beginning at f from my robotics class a few years ago. we got to make a mini robot with an arduino and it was honestly super cool to program it and make the bot move around haha
This is what me and my friend are trying to do in our computer class
Sebastian has embraced his inner Ben Eater.
i know both of them. this cracked me up
That's the first thing I thought too!
Do a sequel, where you upgrade it to a switch, kind of thing, and sell it
Nice Minecraft mod dude! The Details, Graphics, WoW!
Well, you did something better than 99% of people would do in their whole live and I like it.
Why is this even on my reccomended feed, I don't know squat about programming...
Still, kudos to you man, this is amazing.
Gonna tell my kids that console was the nintendo switch.
Eric parks well they won’t want one XD
@@danielt619 yes they will !
Do you see this thing? The graphics are better than the current consoles! It even has better games!
Some people don't deserve to be critics >:(
Dude my iPad 5th gen is way better
bruh. Just bruh.
kids when they search nintendo switch: So that was a frickin lie.
I used a breadboard when I was 6 and I took some idk something classes and I learned a lot about it but it’s been years so I kinda wanna go back to my past because of this
great job, excellent example of just do it and be damned the outcome.. you are now leaps and bounds ahead for your next attempt.
Oh my god is this the lost episode of phineas and ferb
MOM! PHINEAS AND FERB ARE BUILDING THEIR OWN VIDEO GAME SYSTEM!!!
@@leroyvisiongames2294 mom: poggers!
Candace: 😦😦😠
@@spoopyscaryskelebones3846 cringe.
Atleast it's not tiktok..
"Why does c++ compilation take so long"
yeah welcome to the future :D
I just started using microbit and im doing pretty good, ive done something like this before and it didn't turn out well but it was a working console!
Can't wait to play it online!!
This is what everyone wanted to showoff to their friends in kindergarten
I suggest to start showing off who got the longest banana. That will be more meaningful.
@@trumpstuck5830 banana literally or figuratively
@@sandpaperunderthetable6708 I hope they where reffering to the fruit.
@@bluebeka2458 *slowly backs up to men's bathroom* _l..l..literally?_
Not even close! In Kindergarten kids would not understand that when they can have a store bought one. This is something you want to show in your university classroom!!!
I have a question: how do you switch between games
It looks you change game everytime you lose.
You can’t
You have to connect it back to the computer, and install whichever game you want onto the arduino.
I didn’t want to add another button, so just made it so you can switch games by holding the button down for a second.
@@SebastianLague did you use an sd card, my variant uses a salvaged Nokia display instead of led matrix, and an sd card to store gamr sketch files
I watch this like once or more times every year
I was just about to embark on basically the same project but using Arduino Mega and a 32x16 RGB led board and then I saw this video 😂. Now I won't have to write the games from scratch! Amazing video.
*_google desperately writing down notes for the stadia 2_*
But we already have the only google stadia
Stadia consol
“That gives us a limit of 1023” because if you did 1024 the universe would collapse in on itself.
XD
THE NEW MEME NUMBER
no it's because it's a 10 bit number
Usual Unusual Kid r/woooosh
@@CommanderSpaceDog Redditor
Looks cool
Great job
I did something similar but in assembly as part of my game programming bachelors. When programming games we are so spoiled with the amount of CPU time we have at hand, being limited by hardware is a really fun challenge imo.
“Not that impressive.” Really, give your self more credit. It looks really neat, and it actually has games and sounds. It’s also portable! This looks good!
Yeah if he can make a portable console why haven't xbox?
Not a hater, but if you'd see such a console without seeing this video, you wouldn't be impressed.
@@couldntsetpass2901 "hey where'd you get that weird console man?“
“oh I made it"
I'd be impressed
@@couldntsetpass2901 the console isnt impressive, the fact that one person made it is
The word that kept popping up in my head as I watched this video was "fun"
There are other words u think of besides fun, the human mind is advanced and so it thinks of lots of things
Dude taking break and relaxing by building a console.
Love it! So cool!
"I wanted an easy way of writing music for the buzzer so I decided to create a little editor".
[sarcasm] Yes because that's exactly the first thing I would have thought of. [/sarcasm]
Nice use of rich text.
Oh man someone who uses words at the end of a sentence to explain emotion! What a great system! I'm glad people use it! /s
@@bendysquid9926 didn't ppl try to cancel theodd1sout for saying this exact thing in twitter lmao
This thing still looks more fun than most modern games.
Modern games have a lot more involved then this, like how they are replayable, this is just simple games
@@personwhoruinsthejoke9463 Your username checks out
*Classic sonic from sonic forces nods in agreement not realizing this applies to him as well*
Idk what any of this tech thing is yet i still get entertained
It's not that terrible, at least it's portable and the games on it are some that i personally really like
I found this even more important than homework.
😂😂 Same
Bro I’m watching it in the middle of class 🤫
im watching this when im supposed to be doing homework.
Didn’t everyone?
Same
Everybody gangsta tell he start typing emchantement table
Nobody is gangster because there are not gangsters around here
I like what you do . Thanks you Mister.
Dude you made your own video game! This is incredibly impressive!!!
"Extremly terrible"
China: Allow us to introduce ourselves
WinDestruct true, they tried 500 in 1 trash
😂😂😂😂
@@marschocobars what how did you put that emoji
@@marschocobars when did youtube get rage comic support ? 🤨
@@starscratcher you need to copy the emote and then hack youtube your welcome
Who else just watched him play the game when he was talking binary
Me.
I feel ashamed.
Me
Me
Josephine Don't worry, I will too
Me
This man is genius and has incredible humor, I would love to learn from him.
For some reason, this is the first video I actually understand.