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I bought a Nintendo Entertainment System


auxilary

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Or, I built it into an NES PC. no one saw this coming, right?

 

 

1.66ghz atom dual core, 1gb of ram (can do 2!), 80gb sata drive. has wifi, gigabit lan, external power brick. it's designed to be fanless, but i don't trust it so i slapped an old amd cpu fan on it. a bit louder, but not too bad. it also has HDMI out.

 

tomorrow i'll install the OS and prep it for mame. this will server as a portable media station for the bedroom, and also as an emulator system

 

i resoldered the power and reset buttons to PC connections, and i wired up the factory LED to work! and it does!

 

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sven: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500046 that's the board I got. it'll actually handle 4 gigs of ram. only downside is that it outputs max to 720p, but i don't think 8 bit games need that high of a resolution :) but my bedroom tv upstairs is 720p, so it works out

 

hoov: raised the board so i could retain original switches. also, i can still put in a slimline dvd player on top. just no interest or need to do so.

 

tyler: don't have any stock controllers, but there are USB replicas you can buy. Or if you have originals, retrozone has usb converters to adapt original NES controllers to work with usb

 

there are much shittier looking NES pcs:

 

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That looks great, much better than the other examples you posted.

Just make sure to remember if you set the R/F switch to either channel 3 or 4. That can be frustrating. I really hope you don't have to take the hard drive out and blow on the connectors constantly. I've got the original cleaning kit if you need it. ;)

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I have always wanted to do this but could never hack apart my precious.

 

I dig the CD rom coming out of the hatch, I had the same idea as that guy.

 

 

I like your "swap" better though. Much cleaner looking.

I've been trying to swap the guts from a game boy advance into my old school game boy, but Im having trouble remapping the buttons.

 

Cool stuff man.

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