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xbox mini: a great unfinished masterwork

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Xbox Mini Casemod by ghostavel

Some guy over on the Xbox-Scene forums started to work on what will hopefully one day be the finest Xbox casemod of all time. The Xbox Mini case that he fabricated is a thing of beauty, reducing the ugly black behemoth that was the original Xbox into a svelte little package.

Modder ghostavel used computer-aided design to put together the minimalist gloss black case…

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September 8th, 2007 34 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

wii color mod without opening your case

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Wii Dazzle Colorful Case

Tired of the plain white exterior of your Nintendo Wii? Here’s an interesting way to change its look without having to make any permanent modifications.

The Wii Dazzle Colorful from GT Coupe is a translucent plastic shell that snaps over the exterior of your Wii, adding a layer of color over the standard white case…

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September 6th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

creative zen stone, made out of wood

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Captain Odegard’s Giant Wooden Zen Stone

Somebody sure likes their Creative Zen Stone media player. In fact, this guy loves his enough that he created a mammoth wooden version of his portable media player.

Captain Ødegård’s giant-sized wood media player measures in at 8.25″ x 5.5″ x 2″, giving it about 90-times the volume of a regular Zen Stone player…

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August 23rd, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ben heck’s nes atari portable console mashup

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Ben Heck’s NESTari Portable

The master of console mods, Benjamin Heckendorn (aka “Ben Heck”) is at it again. This time he’s created a portable that combines an NES system and a Atari 2600 console, and crammed them together into one compact package.

Like a Frankenstein’s monster, the NESTari portable can play cartridges from either Atari’s or Nintendo’s classic 8-bit systems…

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August 22nd, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

technicolor wii casemod

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Nintendo Wii LED Casemod by MisterXausDE

Nintendo modder MisterXausDE crafted this custom Nintendo Wii case which features bright LEDs that can change colors.

By combining a standard Wii shell with a see-through XCM Hot Rock case, he was able to preserve the main design features of the Wii, while adding a cutout Wii logo and a color-cycling disc slot loading mechanism…

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August 21st, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

super nintendo casemod: powered by vista

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Super Nintendo Casemod

Here’s a fun one. Some guys in Japan has taken an old Super Nintendo (known as the Super Famicom over there) and turned it into a Windows PC.

The computer is running a full version of Windows Vista Ultimate. Apparently they started with an MSI Axis 945GM barebones system and rejiggered it to fit into the gaming system’s case…

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August 14th, 2007 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

nintendo ds lite gets a chrome case

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Chrome Case Replacement for Nintendo DS

Nintendo recently released a silver version of the DS Lite in Japan, but it still really looks more like plastic than metal to me. If you really want your DS to look like metal how about some real chrome?

The Shock! Magnum Chrome replacement shell gives your DS Lite gaming system a shiny metallic finish…

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August 12th, 2007 6 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

nes mp3 player and speaker mod

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NES Controller MP3 and Speakers

It seems like I can’t let a week go by without coming across something new crammed into an old Nintendo Entertainment System controller. A couple of weeks back it was the NintendoSlvr, then we had the NESMouse. This week, it’s this NES controller MP3 player, and a pair of powered speakers in an NES cartridge…

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July 28th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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