NES PC

Malicious sent us to a little tutorial about transforming that old Nintendo into a PC. This guide will even make your controllers work, although it seems to me that a nintendo that has survived this long might be a cherished heirloom tho. Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever? Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console.

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more infos

[odyrithm]

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/ for more info and http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/ for many more like it.

mini ITX

[Lxy]

More interesting than the article itself is the motherboard. You can pick up a micro ITX board for $90 here. I think you could gut out an old CDROM drive, pop in this board, put a laptop HD and CDROm inside, and have your very own LittlePC. LittlePCs run around $900, you could probably build one a lot cheaper (and have a lot more fun doing it).

The Mario series

[yerricde]

• SMB 1: First game. Now sold as "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe".
• SMB 2 The Lost Levels: SMB 1 with harder levels. Now a hidden stage in "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe" for players who play for points.
• SMB 2 Mario Madness: Doki Doki Panic CHR-hacked with Mario characters. Pull vegetables out of the ground and throw them at your enemies. Now sold as "Super Mario Advance".
• SMB 3: First game to use 4-way scrolling on one map (levels were 27 blocks tall on a 15.5x12 window). Fly up to the top half of the level with the leaf that gives you a raccoon tail. Scheduled to be rereleased on GBA as "Super Mario Advance 4 or 5" depending on whether or not Yoshi's Story is labeled SMA.
• SMW: The raccoon tail has become a cape, and you can ride Yoshi. Now sold as "Super Mario Advance 2".
• SMW 2 Yoshi's Island: You control Yoshi trying to carry Mario home. Now sold as "Super Mario Advance 3".
• SM 64: Enter framed paintings in a castle and collect the stars.
• SM 65 Sunshine: Enter graffiti paintings in an island resort and collect the sta^H^H^H shines.

Mirror, mirror on the wall

[paulproteus]

I have mirrored the site here, inside AT&T's network block.

When the traffic normalizes, I'll remove the mirror.

That was completely untrue and NOT informative.

[Rahga]

The vast majority of NES systems need little work to get past the problems you are talking about, and for what it's worth, those problems show up on every cart-based system.

First of all, the easiest and most successful thing to do would be to replace the cartridge connector. These are all pretty cheap on eBay, right around $10, just search for "NES 72".

Secondly, the blinking red light problem is a result of the NES not finding the on-game security chip. Really annoying when the game title screen pops up just for a second over and over again. There's an easy workaround: Disable the NES security chip. Basicly, you'll break pin 4 of the CIC chip, and that's it. http://nintendope.iodized.net/thisoldnes/lock.txt