Free time + Spare parts = Cool Nintendo toy.

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I was bored last night and got creative. The end result was a Nintendo cart that plays every game.
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It is actually a 150GB Western Digital external drive that I gutted and stuffed inside of an old NES cart. Getting it in there required a little shaving with the Dremmel and cutting a hole for the USB jack.
I used a NEStopia emulator and front ended it with NintendoFE. The front end is set to auto play so that I just plug it in and this is what I see.
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Select a game and I am good to go. I purchased a NES controller to USB adapter on feeBay so that I can use the old school NES pad. It was easily mapped with NEStopia.

It's nothing crazy, but not bad for a night's work. Now I can take my Nintendo with me everywhere I go, and it is much more portable than my Playchoice :)
 
That is pretty cool.

Though, did you need to use a 150GB hard drive? That seems like a waste of a good hard drive. I'm thinking a whole library of NES games (at least the ones worth playing) wouldn't take more than 200MB. Even if you decided to add other retro emulators, you got lots of room to spare. You could have probably fit something much smaller in there for much cheaper.
 
That is pretty cool.

Though, did you need to use a 150GB hard drive? That seems like a waste of a good hard drive. I'm thinking a whole library of NES games (at least the ones worth playing) wouldn't take more than 200MB. Even if you decided to add other retro emulators, you got lots of room to spare. You could have probably fit something much smaller in there for much cheaper.

Yea, it is total overkill. It barely uses a Gb. I just had a few extra externals laying around collecting dust, and that was the smallest. It will definitely get more use now.
 
Yea, it is total overkill. It barely uses a Gb. I just had a few extra externals laying around collecting dust, and that was the smallest. It will definitely get more use now.

I see. Well, cool nonetheless. I've seen other mods where guys have hacked a USB NES controller so that when you plug it into your PC, it does the same thing but the controller is functional. The emulator is built into the controller itself. Like I said, since you don't need a lot of space, I think they just installed a 1GB flash drive within the controller somehow. I'll see if I can find the link.

EDIT: Found it.

 
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I see. Well, cool nonetheless. I've seen other mods where guys have hacked a USB NES controller so that when you plug it into your PC, it does the same thing but the controller is functional. The emulator is built into the controller itself. Like I said, since you don't need a lot of space, I think they just installed a 1GB flash drive within the controller somehow. I'll see if I can find the link.

That is sick. Maybe that will be the next project.
 
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