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!"

Comments

Class 1 Laser, eh?

[casuist99]

the Nintendo GameCube has a Class I laser housed inside a Class I case and if the mechanism is bypassed that prevents operation of the laser while the lid is open, then potential eye damage is probable. They didn't want to give anyone the idea to take apart a GameCube and damage their vision.

Well, drawing upon the definition of class 1 lasers, we can see that:

No individual, regardless of exposure conditions to the eyes or skin, would be expected to be injured by a Class I laser. No safety requirements are needed to use Class I laser devices.

It is neat that they replied with a non-canned response, but it was total BS. You don't have anything to worry about with this laser, and they just don't want to encourage people to modify their products like this for some reason.

Re:Class 1 Laser, eh?

[casuist99]

Some extra checking shows that they might not be totally full of shit. Wikipedia discusses Laser safety and mentions that a laser may be defined as a class I laser system if there is an interlock preventing exposure with the laser. It's not obvious that's what Nintendo meant to say, but it's possible the laser is actually class II but the interlock makes it class I. Or it's still possible the laser itself is class I and there's nothing to worry about. Either way, I think they should have published the photos.

Re:Dealing with heat?

[solive1]

You'll notice [See Picture] that I have all the power switches and reset buttons in an easy to access position right on top if this system, that fifth switch over on the far right is for my monster DC fan. I'm certain that I don't need a fan half this size with all the space inside this box, but you know boys, they love their fans!

That's how.

Ive seen better

[SteveXE]

I dont remember what site i saw it on, possibly HardOCP, but it was a SNES, Genesis, N64, Gamecube, PS2, and an Xbox all inside a custom PC case it looked a 1000 times better then this and since the xbox can emulate every console before Dreamcast id wager it was way more usefull.

Google Cache

[citking]

Google Cache, since their servers are apparently far from elite :)

Heres a mirror in case it needs it.

[HybridJeff]

mirror

Re:Nice Case

[gwoodrow]

Ask and you shall receive: Wooden computer cases

Splah-dow!

Mirror

[billatq]

I went ahead and mirrored it here.