Hacking Classic Video Game Systems 30
ThinSkin writes "ExtremeTech has been running a series of articles on hacking your old video game systems. The madness began when they tore open an old Super Nintendo and fashioned it into a portable gaming rig. Now, more recently, they've hacked a PSOne screen, which they will use for another type of portable gaming system."
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Also strange...I just noticed that old NES is not much smaller than the Xbox...but no one ever complained about its size
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Technology gets smaller.
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NES: 8 x 10 x 3
Also, if you set the NES on top of the XBox, you'll see it's a little over half the size.
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I've actually begun a project like this, too. I've got 3 NESs that I just dug up and have taken one apart to start. I began writing a front/backend to a sweet-ass multi-emulator program in Python/GTK.
My current plan is to fashion the front ports into USB ports, have the box run a highly customized install of Gentoo, and use the nice mini-itx Pentium4 board they now have available. I say "plan" since I don't know if I'll be able to do certain things and time/money constraints may change certain things. A 2.4ghz box may be overkill for such a project, but I have fears that the
1ghz VIA board may not have enough graphics power.
I also plan on having the machine act as a video player (and connect over NFS or similar technology to my server) as well as play CDs and DVDs in addition to GB/GBA/GBC/DS/NES/SNES/MAME/Genesis/Sega/GameGear
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It's powered by the PC's power supply and the video and audio cables are run through my digital TV tuner card so I can play it in all it's deinterlaced glory using tvtime [sf.net], although it can be plugged into a large TV or a projector and a loud stereo.
It's great at LAN parties. Nobody can resist the attraction of a GoldenEye deathmatch. >:D
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It came with a Super Powerful 350W Good For You Power Supply! Amazing value!
The N64's power draw is really small and the cheapo PSU runs it fine. Luckily it had an old-fashioned AT power connector so I could cut the 3.3V (orange) wire off that to feed into the N64. The alternative would be splicing into the ATX motherboard power connector, which I was nervous about doing. 3.3V isn't used very much in PCs anymore.
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One of the 'pages' in TFA contains a paragraph. About eight to ten lines. Then you click Next and wait for it to load.
Perhaps this is to increase ad impressions, I don't know. But it got annoying enough that I simply stopped reading.
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