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Hacking Classic Video Game Systems

Posted by Zonk on from the lazy-weekend-activities dept.

ThinSkin writes "ExtremeTech has been running a series of articles on hacking your old video game systems. The madness began when they tore open an old Super Nintendo and fashioned it into a portable gaming rig. Now, more recently, they've hacked a PSOne screen, which they will use for another type of portable gaming system."

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  1. Re:Upgrading old systems by ZephyrXero · · Score: 2, Funny

    okay...if I had fully RTFA...I would have seen that this was talking about taking an old SNES and making it portable, not quite the same...

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    "A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."
  2. It seemed really interesting.. by wheany · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article seemed interesting, and I read around seven pages. Then I got tired of clicking a link every two sentences. The ads took like four times the space that the text did on each page. And I filter all

    Continues...

  3. Tiny, tiny article parts by cbiffle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it's just me, but it seems like this trend of splitting an article into tiny parts is getting worse.

    One of the 'pages' in TFA contains a paragraph. About eight to ten lines. Then you click Next and wait for it to load.

    Perhaps this is to increase ad impressions, I don't know. But it got annoying enough that I simply stopped reading.

    In a few years, I'll hate to see how far we've come.

    In
    *click*
    this
    *click*
    article
    *click*