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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. I've done something similar by BlastM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I hacked an N64 down to it's bare essentials, and put it in my PC.

    It's powered by the PC's power supply and the video and audio cables are run through my digital TV tuner card so I can play it in all it's deinterlaced glory using tvtime, although it can be plugged into a large TV or a projector and a loud stereo.

    It's great at LAN parties. Nobody can resist the attraction of a GoldenEye deathmatch. >:D

  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*