Dec 5 2007Nintendo NES Actually A PC, Emulator
Some man in France stuffed a PC into an old NES console and packed the thing with emulators for NES, SNES, N64 and PS2. The computer has "a 1GHz CPU, 256MB of RAM and 40GB hard drive." The man claims he spent over $1,200 and 50 hours of labor on the unit. It's for sale on eBay France, and is currently at about $920 with 4 days remaining. Included in the auction are all the controllers for the various systems, along with the connectors necessary to hook them up to the PC. Pretty cool, but too rich for my blood. Although I do have a fondness for PC based emulators. They really helped pass the time in college classes, particularly Ocarina of Time. I remember a professor called on me to answer a question once when I was in the water temple and I had to scream at him for disturbing my concentration at such a critical moment. I think he failed me. What a dick.
Two more pictures and a video after the jump.
Reader Comments
1. Bonjoor - December 5, 2007 12:48 PM
Quel nul il n'a rien d'autre à faire ??
Je ne sais pas moi, faire ça avec une Commodore 64 par exemple ?
2. I can build this for 100 bucks - December 5, 2007 12:51 PM
Wow this guy is a tard.
I have an E-PC or old crap laptop that I can throw in a NES case in about an hour and get it to work. WTF is this guy trying to pull. Heck if they sell for 900 bucks then i'll be building one this afternoon and selling it asap.
Vectra or E-PC's have tiny Mobo's and could easily fit in an NES. a P3 1 GHZ will run NES emulated games perfectly fine.
3. MajorDork - December 5, 2007 12:52 PM
That is f***ing awesome. Very impressive.
4. Ariana - December 5, 2007 12:55 PM
And I thought I was the only one who spent my Philosophy lectures playing SNES roms!
5. Simon - December 5, 2007 4:02 PM
Nicely put into case, terribly setup software.
To make it a REALLY nice setup he could have:
* Used one of the many emulation specific Linux build that would boot straight into the game selection screen with minimum OS messages
* Continued to use XP, but at least changed the load graphics to be custom game ones for his setup, and then had it boot into the emulator frontend, and NOT have the taskbar down the bottom of the screen.
Poorly setup... poorly done
6. Nat - December 5, 2007 11:38 PM
My brother fit a computer into an NES case. He's 13.
7. guate6 - December 6, 2007 12:17 AM
Slightly contrary to other comments, I personally think this is very neat. Yes, he could have made it better, but you know what...he did make it. I'm sure there are a bunch of people who could have done this or that better, but haven't actually gone and "done" it. Anyway, Awesome job, He should start to mass-produce these (or at least "mass" in a relative scale, like four a week for instance). Good creativity and ingenuity are always welcome in my book.
8. Critic - December 6, 2007 2:23 AM
I wonder why the laptop shows the exakt image as the TV ?
or is it a TFT screen ?
anyhow, looks wierd.
http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=asdadasduw5.jpg
9. one - December 6, 2007 6:48 AM
nice game little an practicl
10. Reid - December 6, 2007 12:01 PM
The water temple from Ocarina of Time was a bitch
11. Mike - December 7, 2007 3:00 AM
Yeah, this is a REALLY old concept. You can find tutorials online on how to make this yourself... you just need a Mini-ITX form factor motherboard. If you want to see REALLY impressive mini-pcs... go to www.mini-itx.com
In short, I could build that in an afternoon... Also there's no way he spent anywhere NEAR 1200 dollars.
12. The Seller - December 13, 2007 3:24 PM
Hello,
Critic, this is not a laptop, this is my VGA screen ;) You can easily see it on your screenshot (you can see the foot of the screen and you can see that it's a LG 1915S: http://www.pcpress.co.yu/arhiva/images/broj/109/tft/LG-Flatron-L1915S-(L).jpg ).
The best bidder didn't pay me and didn't answer to my messages. Therefore I'm reselling the item there: http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140190150286
13. Dewey420 - August 24, 2009 10:31 PM
PROPS!