This question is honestly better suited to a place like ROMHacking.net, but I figure I ask here.
After finding out there were games like Jeopardy on the NES, where you need to type in an answer, it made me wonder if it would be at all possible to hack keyboard support for those games. There was also the Family Basic kit released for the Famicom, allowing you to make your own NES games, or rather programs, and with it came a keyboard. Is it possible to do, and if so, how difficult would it be? While adding keyboard support to a game sounds like a trivial effort nowadays, I'm well aware that to do even the simplest of things on the NES required entire paragraphs of code just to make it work.
On the flip side, this would also work really well for games with alphanumeric passwords.
After finding out there were games like Jeopardy on the NES, where you need to type in an answer, it made me wonder if it would be at all possible to hack keyboard support for those games. There was also the Family Basic kit released for the Famicom, allowing you to make your own NES games, or rather programs, and with it came a keyboard. Is it possible to do, and if so, how difficult would it be? While adding keyboard support to a game sounds like a trivial effort nowadays, I'm well aware that to do even the simplest of things on the NES required entire paragraphs of code just to make it work.
On the flip side, this would also work really well for games with alphanumeric passwords.