Well Now I Can’t Blow In It When It Freezes
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On the upside, putting the entire 8-bit collection on one CD has really freed up my storage space – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “Your search for ‘Princess’ did not return any results. Please insert Castle disc #6 and try again.”
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This is actually a very common casemod for smaller computers; several people have also turned the controllers into phones. Still made of win, though.
Whats the point? My external drive dvd is only a
fraction of that size contraption…..
Because it’s fun.
But as mentioned below, this is actually a whole computer in a NES case. Kind of cool, and too professionally done to be a kludge really.
my computer really locked up when i looked at this image.
Nintendo is years behind Sega. The Sega CD came out in 1991.
Wrong. Nintendo was smart for keeping Cartridges, aside from the price difference in creating the individual games, there is an incredible difference in performance between cartridges and CDs. For one, Cartridges are basically plugged into a SATA/IDE port (for lack of a better comparison) meaning less (NO) load time. Cartridges could also house extra RAM, that the system didn’t have, to give you amazing games (such as Perfect dark for the n64). if you haven’t noticed, most intensive games today even install to the hard disk for this reason, CDs are slow as s**t.
I CAN HAS ONE?
I’m not sure what this is doing here. A kludge is a kludge is a kludge and this ain’t no kludge!
It’s a CD drive in an NES(Nintendo Entertainment System). This classifies as jury rig(which is apart of the kludge section as well).
Except that’s not what it is at all. It’s a computer that is using an NES as a case. http://www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/nespc/
It’s actually pretty cool and I don’t see how it classifies as a kludge or a jury rig. I mean it’s a cool picture, but taking a picture out of context and using it on your “failblog” is kind of lame.
No, this is a computer casemod, as in
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/
EPIC WIN !!! (FTW)
“Well Now I Can’t Blow In It When It Freezes Up”: That’s what she said..
Famicom Disk System you’re doing wrong
This is the most glorious CD-ROM drive I have ever seen.
You can’t blow the cartridge but you can wipe the cd on the t-shirt
you mean it’s *freed up your storage, Ms. fix-it
/grammar-nazi
If this is what it looks like, i.e. a custom NES firmware coded to read a hardware added CD/DVD drive full of NES roms all I can say is: WHERE IS THE SNES VERSION !?!?
Nah, probably just a cool as hell external drive. It also seems to bear very near a PC, wich wold be crucial for a optical drive.
It’s definitely not that. It’s simply a mini computer utilizing the NES chassis for a case. So in reality, it could have NES, SNES, Megadrive, NeoGeo, Arcade, etc emulators on the interenal harddrive. Not to mention whatever you introduce on cd/dvd.
This isn’t what it looks like. However, a PC in a NES case will still play all your NES ROMs, and SNES ROMs, and any other ROMs you can find.
and that is still full of win 0.0!
The next thing to do is fit the flat screen monitor and PC unit into an analog TV cabinet … and presto! 2010 cleverly concealed in 1990!
Stuff like this always leaves a bittersweet taste in my mouth. On the one hand, here’s someone who’s cleverly hidden new technology inside older technology. On the OTHER hand, though, this whole thing is going to make absolutely no sense in thirty years.
I don’t see why the person who made this would care what someone 30 years in the future would think of this. The computer he put inside this NES will be obsolete in 5 years anyway, so why does it matter?
because a tape deck in a record player is confusing today.
Like when the archeologists find it? Is it going to disrupt their theories /On the Origins of iPad/?
It’s not as if it’s going to be /functioning/ in thirty years.
PRESS PLAY ON TA- ER, DISC.
It’s done using a Mini-ITX sized motherboard(EPIA boards from VIA) and a Mini-ITX PSU(Power Supply Unit).
You just add some memory and a hard drive, usually a laptop drive, and you have yourself a working computer. Put it into whatever you want to use as a case….or a teddy bear?
oh noes…..
http://wildbee.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/teddybear.jpg
Some cool, interesting, and funny things have been used to house the hardware.
That ain’t a kludge, that’s a clever hack.
Your search for ‘Princess’ did not return any results. Please insert Castle disc #6 and try again.
Case mod FTW
renember nintendo delayed going to optical media for a long time (couldnt fit gigabytes on a single cartridge) due to piracy concerns
Annnd… Those pirated NES clones and cartridges for them sold for ridiculously low prices all over the Third World didn’t change their mind? Man, those Japanese ARE weird.
I need to do this for my entertainment center PC.
I’ll give you a hundred bucks for that NES mod. (bluff)