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Favorite Comment (Because It Had To Be Asked) : Fixer Daniel says, “Yeah, but does it run Crysis?”
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Ok you get major kudos and Nerd status for this one
Skynet is starting small!
This is not a kludge, period! This is a true hero. Bringing back 8bit CPU processor gaming to life is a virtue. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do and this guy did something extra. 110% Respect !
I admire what they’re trying to do here. Still, I remember this used to LOOK like more fun…
LEGO tire, no actual A or B button, this has got to be the easiest game ever…
Looks like they’re playing Prince of Persia.
Far from an easy game, and it doesn’t even require more than the d-pad to play!
Looks like Prince of Persia which to my recollection was pretty tough due to frustrating controls.
I found the controls to be excellent on the original 16-bit version.
You know there’s companies that remake nes consoles that will play the old nes games… you don’t have to build one yourself…
Bah, where’s the fun in that?
Yeah, electrocuting yourself before play is always a blast. keeps your reflexes sharp.
o heck yeah
That would defeat the essence of the kludge. If everyone just BOUGHT something when they could conceivably make a dangerous clone out of spare parts and old rust wire, there would be no more kludges.
Copper doesn’t rust.
I can hear it through the screen…the screams of agony that the setup is emitting…
Get my shotgun, we have to put it out of its misery.
Yeah, but does it run Crysis?
Look it’s the IKEA NES!…lol…
Sad part is, after all that work the games are as about as much fun as watching paint dry.
screw crysis, battlefield bad comany 2 ftw!
So there will still be video gaming after the apocalypse?
F*cking Zombies will chew on anything, and I do mean anything!
Hey, this is running and A and B is avalaible! the A and B buttons are situated at the front side of the pad, on the left and rignt side to use with second finger( like in the xbox360 gamepad ) Try looking at the right and left corner of my pad, there are two wires connected to each switches! I can do an additional photo if you want to;)
Sorry for my poor english, i hope u will understand me. Chris
Is this a working model, they should include links with more info on their pcitures.
What does it say under “N.E.S”? Lube? Pube? The dirty mind boggles.
Well, considering all the possible “-ube” words, it seems like the choice that makes the most sense would be “CUBE”
Its an “NES CUBE!”
An NES Cube? Aw man. I was hoping for an SNES Station 360.
Yes, it is saying nes CUBE
But look at the size of the screen…you could only play that from 5 feet or less.
This brings back memories for me. Not the kludged up N.E.S. Cube (which is all kinds of awesome), but the tiny podunk TV that it’s hooked up to. It reminds me of holidays at my grandmothers when I’d take my NES to play with my cousin but the adults wouldn’t let us use the living room and Granny always had her old 6″ screen, black and white TV with the radio dial on the side waiting for us in the spare bedroom.
Indeed. I thought myself a hero for playing a PS on a 9 incher. This guy is head and shoulders above me.
Hey, my PSX is on a 9 inch… have you been sneaking into my apartment?!
oh yeah, major awesome memories of NES gaming at grandmas on the junker B&W tv
When I had a memory, Pong ruled. The gaming was in the basement on grampa’s card tables.
You’ve got me beat there. Farthest back I go is Pac Man on Atari 2600 at the age of four.
Original NES kid over here. My brother and I had a hand me down Atari 7800 lying around somewhere. Still got that NES. Little bastard wont die.
odessy (sp?) anyone? that system was great!
The Magnavox Odyssey? First home console, went on sell August of 1972, 3 years before the Atari Pong console. I have never seen one with my own eyes.
2 paddle or 4 paddle pong? I had the deluxe 4 paddle set…and the “old” folks played euchre at the card tables…so no luck there
I found you Waldo! Trying to hide in kludges are we?
To me, this looks like something out of Weird Science but without Kelly LeBrock, teenagers with bras on their heads, Kelly LeBrock, a talking pile of poo, Kelly LeBrock, a party-crashing psycho biker gang, and Kelly LeBrock.
Last I saw Kelly LeBrock, she was on Celebrity Fit Club, I’m sorry to report. I fear this may disappoint you somewhat.
*sigh* Wonder whatever happened to the psycho biker gang. We had a big falling out after some stupid, scrawny kid stared us down with a .357 Magnum.
It’s gonna suck when they get to the thunder magic boss.
Looks like it may be time to invest in a new gaming system
i missed my old 286.
Who cares about SMB3? That’s Prince of Persia, men!
They turned a Gamecube into a NES?! That’s like trading in a Ford Mustang for a Model T.
I’m wondering if this is *really* a functional kludge and not a fake.
1). No A-B-Select-Start Buttons visible anywhere on the controller. I don’t get how you’d actually control anything with this. Well, okay, there’s a small black plastic object that *might* be a button, but that only covers *one* button.
2). If you look closely, there are a series of wires going up to the shelf above and behind the TV, and you can clearly see a power strip (with taped ACs I might add). I know one of those ACs probably feeds the Cube, but what about the other one? The other one is far too large to be the TVs; no TV has a plug like that that I’ve ever seen.
3). I see what looks like a laptop on the very top-left of the picture, and then what looks like some sort of VCR in the top-right.
My Theory: Laptop is Video-Out to the VCR, which is video-out to the TV, and the laptop is running a NES emulator (which would have been farrr easier to “kludge” with better results!). The “Cube” is just a decoy and for good measure, someone removed the circuitry from a NES cartridge to make it look real.
Oh, and about that ‘cube… both red LEDs appear to be off, but yet there’s an image on the TV. Assuming one of those LEDs is for “On”, how could that be? And why are they kludging up USB controllers (NES controllers had much larger plugs)? That part doesn’t even make sense.
Thanks, Jamie. Next time on “Kludgebusters”, we investigate the Atari 2600 VCS that’s running Grand Theft Auto III…
Just don’t go and blow the damn thing into the lower stratosphere!
That’s a portable TV, doesn’t run directly off mains, so it needs a wall wart to power it pretty much
I,ve made a Video to prove that this IS working. There it is:
A true hacker in the classic sense of the term.
Agni: On the back of the box for my NES, it shows the Nintendo operating without any of the lights being on. Maybe it’s in homage?
this is a full functioning controller. the A B Select and Start buttons are shoulder buttons and the lego tire from the 80s is a kludged analog stick. see the little switches under the cross the tire is glued to?
to wager a guess i’d say this adaptation makes the game easier.
it’s a little ugly and an actual analog stick from a disguarded ps2 could be added in place of the tire and a little covering so if you drop it or get pissed and smash it into the wall…
i’ve seen xbox360 contorllers modded like this (no face buttons but 8 shoulder buttons (one for each finger) and a hat switch underneath in place of the d-pad.
i say kudos. looks like a promising prototype i’d like to see a later adaptation with a complete shell. get some duct tape, a couple of toasters and an old hoover and make a vacuum forming machine.
I’m not sure that it’s original NES circuitry in there, due to the orientation of the cartridge. Most likely they used the revised top-loading NES design or a modern imitation
The kludges made to the controller make sense. The contacts on the NES circuitry appear to be wired to the shoulder buttons, and the wheel is wired to the D-pad contacts to serve as a joystick. Now we just need to see what the other controller looks like.
On the other hand I can’t imagine getting very far in Prince of Persia with that setup.
Somebody should buy this kid a basketball or a kite.
I he/she (but most likely he) is trying to bring back the Prince of Persia (1989) to life, this “kid” might have his/her own kids all right
or not…
or a scooter and an umbrella
Why? Because you can and you did. YAY?
these are common in Afganistan, the military calls them Improvised Gaming Devices, they’re all the rage with the Taliban
wonder what he could do with my trash80, my commodore64, my atari and pong games…and platforms…could be something good…could be something bad, but I’m not digging that far in my mother’s attic-she’d kill me.
Wow. I have a t.v. like that, except un-kludged.
win for the crysis comment
Sorry, the controls and console are not up to living standards.
(DPMS Cessation Mode)
Disecting a controler cool
not only the reevolution of nes, but also a badass training console, i mean, if u beat a boy and his blob on level 99 what else is left to do than that?!
Ford still raced Model Ts. That must of been a sight.