auxilary Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Pretty slick! That's perfect for media and emulators! Now make the controllers usable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Cool, Where did you get the board from and how much? I've been thinking about an Atom N450 hidden desktop myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoov100 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Shoulda lowered the board so you could install a disc drive where the original cartridge slot was and put two USB 2.0 ports where the controllers plug in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 (edited) 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: Edited September 20, 2010 by auxilary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh280z Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 looks cool! Seems out of place for this forum though >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue72 Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 looks cool! Seems out of place for this forum though >_> aren't we in 'non-tech' section? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xonix_digital Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) 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. Edited September 21, 2010 by xonix_digital Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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