1 month ago
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
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.
Yeah I get the feeling I’ve seen this before.. I Google searched before publishing this because it seems like something that would have been done time and time again… yet I didn’t see any search results pop up.
Thanks for participating!
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