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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!"
That thing looks positively retarded.
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I don't intend to be overly critical, but that thing looks like he put all of the systems into one box, and just combined the video outputs. (i know the voltages and power supplies et all). But I thought I was gonna see some streamlined piece of beauty and not a behomoth of a monster. Got to give him some props though for doing this.
I mean - as a gaming enthusiast I can understand the desire to combine all of these systems - but it does not look like he saved much physical space in the process.
Given the choice of having all the listed systems working in their original cases - or having all of them in one large block of mahogany that took up the same amount of space - I would have to go with leaving them alone (I personally enjoy the 'cool' factor of having mint condintion, working, old game consoles)
Takes a good bit of imagination.. more than I've seen in most of the posts about it.
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Lasers can be dangerous, so you warn people about them. Same thing as toxicity warnings on poison. No shit, it's poison, of COURSE it's toxic, wouldn't do much good if it wasn't.
The US is just really lawsuit happy thesedays, so you cover your ass as much as possible. I mean there might be some way to injure yourself with that laser. Maybe you pump more power through it than normal and stare right at it for 5 hours. Stupid? Yes, but better the company be able to say "we told you not to do that" than to loose a multi-million dollar lawsuit over it.
I'm working on my laptop on a nice wood desk right now. Underneath it, however, are two black towers taking up floorspace, a subwoofer, and, of course, the wires... A better use of space and a nice project would be to have a desk that contained a couple drawers prefitted with ATX mounts, fans, and soundproofing foam. Need another PC? Slide open an empty drawer and load in the electronics. Cables all get routed around the back and status lights get routed to some blue LED's (of course) embedded in the surface of the desk and smoothed out so they're just part of the finish.
Get Thos. Moser to build it and I'll send in a deposit today.
" 1. Emulation doesn't get you the original controllers"
Not always an issue. A Dual Shock is IMHO the greatest consoel controller ever made. I have no problems playing Atari,Gensis,SMS, NES,SNES, N64 etc games all on a joystick that I'm comfortable with. Why would I want to suffer with those old Atari joysticks? Sorry but I did enough of that 20 years ago.
"2. Emulation doesn't get you your saves on your real cartridges."
And you would want this because? With an EMU you can save whenever you want if that's you thing.
"3. Emulators of many systems only gets the games playable. It doesn't get you perfect sound and picture of the original."
Actually for many older console systems you do get perfect sound and picture. Have you looked into Emulated gaming recently? There are a ton of really good emu's out there and even the oldest systems have new emulators coded for them now and then.
Plus with Emulation you don't have to keep 20 consoles around cluttering up your livingroom. The cartridges don't have to be cleaned, you won't wear the parts out, and you don't have to spend huge amount of money on games. I say this as someone who grew up with Atari, NES etc and I own a bunch of console systems and I won't be getting rid of any time soon. IMO Emulation is simply more practical and a better solution. Remember, its the games and gaming that matter, not the screws, chips, and solder that are holding the systems together. The games need to survive, the actual hardware which will become rarer and rarer and more likely to stop working doesn't.
btw my preferred setup is currently MHTPC which serves as a fantastic front end for all my console and arcade gaming needs.
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And I bet it would be horrendous if a decent percentage of the controllers were plugged in at once
Must..have..wireless..controllers.
Why anyone would use anything but wireless controllers these days is beyond me. The SNES, the N64 and the Gamecube all have excellent wireless controllers.
I was a little disappointed when I read what the guy had really done. He's just de-cased his consoles and put them in a big box.
I imagined some clever wiring/electronics to have all the consoles driven by one set of four controllers, with one SCART/Component output for all of the consoles, a cleverer switch setup that doesn't boil down to having one reset button for each console, etc. Now that would have been neat, although
I suppose hardcore Nintendo fans would balk at the idea of using the wrong kind of controller with the wrong game -- a Game Cube controller for the NES? NOOOOOO! I assume, also, that the GC controllers are a bit more complex than just some pushbuttons hooked up to some wires as the old controllers were. Still, it would have been cool!