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Incredible R2D2 Hack has 8 Consoles + Projector

Joe L — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:46:45 +0000

Here’s an outstanding project for all you Star Wars fans. This guy took an R2D2 cooler and turned it into a retro gaming machine! Inside are eight consoles and a even a projector mounted in the head just like R2D2. Perfect! Now you can have a personal gaming robot to follow you around and fulfill all your nostalgic gaming desires. Unfortunately, these are all the pics and info we have about the project right now.

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R2D2 Innards:

We can take a look at the guts of the system (minus the projector) and see the wild mess of cables, fans, and retro consoles. It’s definitely a fantastic feat of engineering to get all of them to fit in such a small space and then have an R2D2 head-mount projector and built in sound system to work on top of it all. Take a look at some of our related Star Wars projects:

Nintendo Meets Xbox 360 with the SNES Emulator

Saikat — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:36:02 +0000

Super Nintendo (SNES) still has fans worldwide – Who doesn’t love the retro consoles? Thanks to SNES emulators, the Super Nintendo is still alive and kicking in some corners of the game world.

Emulation of the SNES is now available for a number of console platforms. Snes9x for example is a portable, freeware SNES emulator. Snes9x is coded in C++ for Linux and Windows. Many ports of Snes9x are easily available. SNES 9xGX specially, is a Super Nintendo emulator for the Wii based on the SNES9x.

But this hack could be the very first homebrew emulation for the Xbox360. The innovative project used the SNES9X GX emulator ported to the Xbox360. OS dependence was bypassed by using Libxenon (which is a library for writing programs for the Xbox 360). The end result, as the video shows is a success. The GUI may not be eye pleasing but you sure can get those old games back into action on your Xbox360.

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How to Build a DIY Nintendo Arcade

Joe L — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:00:47 +0000

Don’t we all love the classic Nintendo and it’s 8 bit glory? This main built his own tabletop arcade setup for the NES which allows him to emulate NES games on Windows. The system can also serve as a regular PC by hooking up a keyboard and mouse. If you’re interested in build your own arcade, you can buy the joystick and buttons pretty cheap on eBay. Heck you could even make an illuminated joystick if you want.

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Physical Punch-Out Interface for the NES

JJMelo — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:59:27 +0000

People are getting extremely creative with innovative ways to physically interact with game consoles. These hackers combined one of the greatest NES titles, Punch-Out with a boxing dummy to add interaction to the old classic. This hack involves adding arcade buttons to a boxing dummy and interfacing it with a hacked NES controller. The tutorial details the various buttons placed on the dummy to control dodging and punches to the head and body.

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Super Nintendo Toaster LED Case Mod

Joe L — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:50:00 +0000

There really are no limits in the world of case modding.Â� Who the heck comes up with the idea to use a toaster as a SNES case anyways?Â� The same person also stuffed a NES inside a toaster too.Â� The creator gives a step by step guide for building the system. Â� There’s a video demo below as well.

As it is a dual slice system, he was tempted to incorporate both the SNES and NES in the same machine. However, he ended up just sticking with the SNES instead.

The Build:
Simple building materials are all you really need.Â� A Super NES, a few adhesives, magnets ripped from a broken hard drive, a bunch of resistors, six orange LEDs, plexiglass, and some spare wire. He used the temperature control knob of the toaster on the front to dim the orange LEDs. And guess what? It wonâ€™t burn your cartridges.Â� Full project details.

How to Emulate any Nintendo Console

Joe L — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:23:57 +0000

Whether it’s the old school NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) all the way to the Wii, any Nintendo console can be emulated in Windows.Â� To find games for these emulators, search “console name roms” on Google.Â� If you’re looking for simulators for Playstation, Atari, Xbox, etc, see our emulator database.

NES

There are plenty of NES emulators out there, but Nestopia is our favorite.Â� Simple interface with thousands of games avaliable.Â� See all of our NES hacks and projects.

SNES

ZSNES is a fantastic emulator (even though its interface is weird).Â�Â� Here’s a great ZSNES tutorial and download it here.

Gameboy/Advanced

This hasn’t been updated for a while, but it works great. Â� For now, you can download VBA here.

Nintendo 64

Project64 has been around for a while and is continually improved.Â�Â� You can download it here.

Nintendo DS

DeSmuME works best, but has a few bugs.Â� There is also iDeaS, but I have been told DeSmuME is slightly better.

Gamecube & Wii

Dolphin is the only emulator I know of for GameCube or Wii games – It works well for the games we tested it on.

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Fantastic NES Scene Recreations using LEGOs

Joe L — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:08:37 +0000

Armed with nothing but an arsenal of LEGOs, one man recreated classic NES games such as Duck Hunt, Excite Bike, Contra, and more.Â� Sure to provide your with your nostalgia fix for the day.Â� Be sure to check out our other retro NES and Atari hacks and projects.

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NES, Buttons, LCD, plus Mario inside the Cartridge

Joe L — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:23:09 +0000

Inside a NES Cartridge sits a NOAC (Entire NES and 99 games on a chip), speakers, all standard buttons, and an LCD screen. It took about a month to build, a few battle scars, but it looks pretty excellent. View more about the build and discuss it here. For more portable console fun, be sure to check out the rest of Ben Heck’s site. In case you’ve been living under a rock the last five years or so, he has been turning consoles into laptops and handhelds for years. Below is the on off switch, and hole in the back for the speaker.