Examples exist of reading the N64 controller’s state with an Arduino, which could form the basis of a man-in-the-middle approach of “Yell To Press B” (or anything else) instead of soldering ...
Many of the games released on the Nintendo 64 have aged remarkably well ... on an add-on board that let’s you use Xbox 360 wireless controllers on Nintendo’s 1996 console.
And that’s how we got a Nintendo 64-powered Oculus Rift ... to function with the Rift-N64 setup – having previously managed to get the wearable NES controller to work on the N64 in a previous ...