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Drumboog over at YouTube has turned his old Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console into an ION powered nettop decked out with a Blu-Ray drive, TV Tuner and a huge 140mm case fan. Pretty awesome and hardcore.. this ain’t as easy as it might sound. I say nettop because it packs a Zotac ION motherboard which packs a dual-core Atom 330 processor.

Check out his 6 part video of the whole process from beginning to end. The only hiccup was a faulty SATA cable, so he couldn’t actually get the 64GB SSD working yet.

Source: Drumboog Channel

Posted 10/09/09 at 03:56 PM / Hacks & Mods 2 Comments

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Reader Comments (2)

Justin Kenny 10/09 at 09:35 PM

Hmm, my old neighbor here at college did that too. That’s definitely not him though. Not sure if it was a nettop or just a small form factor motherboard though, but it was a computer modded into an NES.

ToastyTwo 11/10 at 12:23 PM

Hi, I also upgraded my own custom build NES-PC from 1,6ghz Celeron-M to ION 330 to get smooth 1080p MKV playback with CUDA. Compared to Drumboog’s setup it lacks a BD-Drive but I attached 2 TB HDD filled up with content.

Control works completely over IR-Remote (2 SNES-pads and 1 N64-Controller for Gaming)

NES-PC’s are not new (see some links below) but Drumboog’s Machine is extreme nicely done (but quite pricy…)

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Nintendo-NES-PC/
http://modsandends.com/?p=64
http://nespc.xero.nu/

greets, ToastyTwo

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