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Claude Code played SimCity on a real SNES
No emulator: Claude Code plays the actual SimCity cartridge through a real SNES controller wired to it.
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- Video channel Questionable Commands Source ↗
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The full story
No emulator: Questionable Commands wired Claude Code to a real SNES controller playing the actual SimCity cartridge on a Retro Duo console. That took controller surgery with ten transistors, an HDMI capture bridge (one died on the bench) and a Raspberry Pi 4 running Claude Code, which was told to write every tool it needed.
Then it played. The second half covers how well, where it put the power plant and why it decided it was finished.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- YouTube: I wired Claude Code to a SNES controller and it played SimCity (Classic Computing - Ep. 0x002)Video channel: Questionable CommandsPublished
The full build video, with chapters.