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The Ultimate Nintendo Console
Ngamer writes "Logan West, a member of a fanatical group of gamers known as "The Elite," recently created a Nintendo fan's ultimate dream: his Nintendo Entertainment Console is a composite of the NES, SNES, N64, GC, and Gameboy, all combined into a single system! With no shortage of electrical/carpentry ability, Logan carefully dissected his consoles, wired them to a central unit, then crafted a wooden vessel to host all five systems as one. Logan has already gotten a response from Nintendo after submitting his creation to them--they were quite impressed!"
> ...a composite of the NES, SNES, N64, GC, and Gameboy, all combined into a single system!
Yes, but can it run Doom 3??
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I made myself one of those too, and very effective it is too.
For anyone else who wants one, what you do is, you walk down to your local furniture store and buy what we in England like to call a "shelf".
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Making it, eh, okay, but hardly all that impressive.
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I kinda like it, could be done a bit better in places, but not bad at all. Sure looks better than having all of those systems on a shelf with cables and whatnot everywhere.
It could use:
* grabhandles on the top
* wheels
* a projector in the back
* a generator
Once you have those mods, it's time to go camping and see what happens when people see you playing games on a 60' rock embankment.
Oh yeah.
It is more productive to voice thoughtful opinions (reply) than to judge (moderate) others.
a PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and GameBoy Advance SP so that you can play every game currently on the market with one box! I'd call it the XcubeStation Advance. :)
Hahaha. It looks like he superglued 4 consoles together and covered it in wood.
Now he has a 40lb console that would look completely awful if you actually plugged all the controllers and power supplies in.
Is it just me, or does this thing look a lot like a toilet for an outhouse?
Way to take a bunch of cool consoles and turn them into something that looks like a reject from Ikea!
It's almost as big as the Xbox!
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after submitting his creation to them--they were quite impressed!"
;)
Translation, they sent him a cease & desist letter.
Logan has already gotten a response from Nintendo after submitting his creation to them--they were quite impressed!"
And they answered him:
Dear Logan, We are quite impressed by your resourcefulness and ingeniousity. Its always remarkable to see that individuals with limited resources can make more original and inspiring toys than the average established big corporation. Nevertheless your limited resources guarantee us that you probably wont be able to defend correctly in court against a giant monster with unlimited legal war chest like us. For that reason we simply decided to sue you ass to the bone.
Surrender immediately (and by immediately we mean in the next 15 minutes) all the Nintendo modified material, the tools you used to do your exploit, the residence were the manipulation of our proprietary design as been done and your first new born girl.
Any attempt to delay or negotiate the terms of this request will be considered as an hostile act against Nintendo Corp. and all of is partners. We are currently seeking permission from court to shoot you on sign and this formality will be accomplish in the next minutes. Our black suited agents in black SUV's are already on their way to your home
Resistance is futile
Again, congratulation for you impressive fun home made gizmo and have a nice day. Sincerely yours.
Al Suy Ouras
Nintendo legal department director and VP of the kitties and puppies crushing department
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
...hook together an XBox, GameCube, PS2, PS1, SNES, NES, N64, Sega 16, Sega Saturn, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Virtual Boy, Game Gear, and Nomad. A hard drive completes the collection.
Then you load a custom cartridge/CD in each system that is a fragment of the main game loop. Each console's firmware has been modified to execute things like glTriangle and stuff very efficiently (ask John Carmack to do it).
Then custom-machine a motherboard and bus that takes in the inputs from the consoles and at the same time manages them for parallel processing. A video output to the TV, connect a controller, and BAM Doom 3 on your TV!
*runs*
... I mean who actually plays video games that much?
I hope this is a lame attempt at humor. This is Slashdot, after all.
Give me a Cube with a gameboy player, and an N64 with a Tristar 64