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NES Mp3 Player and Speaker Mod
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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… |
July 28th, 2007
NES Controller Mouse Mod
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It seems like just about once a week, I come across somebody who’s comes up with a clever new use for a classic Nintendo Entertainment System gamepad. This time, an industrious hacker has taken the guts of an optical mouse and slapped them inside the NES controller. I don’t know… |
July 22nd, 2007
Motorola Slvr NES Controller Mashup
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This guy has gone through the painstaking process of cramming his shmancy Motorola SLVR mobile phone into the case of an old Nintendo NES controller. While the end result is pretty fugly from the phone side of things, it looks pretty convincing from the outside. |
July 9th, 2007
Musician Releases Album on an NES Cartridge
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Electronic musician Alex Mauer composes music from the electronic beats and blips of the original sound chips found in classic video game systems. So it’s only appropriate that he’d release an album that plays on the classic Nintendo NES gaming system. His album, entitled VEGAVOX ships on a cartridge the… |
July 8th, 2007
Classic Nintendo Controllers for Your Pc or Mac
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Do you long for the days of the simple, elegantly designed gamepad controllers from Nintendo’s classic gaming systems? Perfect for playing emulated games the way they were meant to be played, you can buy custom-modded versions of the 8-bit NES and 16-bit SNES joypads, ready to use with your PC… |
July 7th, 2007
Nintendo Console Gets All Soft and Squishy
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Check out this awesome plush fabric Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo fan and seamstress extraordinaire blueblythe, hand-sewed and embroidered this amazing stuffed-felt tribute to the classic 8-bit gaming console of yore. She not only cranked out a console, but two game cartridges, a controller, a light gun and interchangeable velcro screens… |
June 26th, 2007
The Wii Power Glove
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An enterprising hacker over in Japan has put together this mashup between the old school Nintendo Power Glove and a modern day Wii-mote controller. While the on-screen motion sensing is pretty much standard functionality, the modder did add some finger activated switches to replace the A and B buttons. I… |
June 10th, 2007
Giant Nintendo Controller Won’t Fit in Your Hands
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You won’t have any trouble finding the buttons on this massive replica of Nintendo’s famous NES controller. Game fan Philip Torrone and his team of builders put together this 5-foot wide joypad for the recently completed 2007 Maker Faire. Constructed mostly out of wood and assorted other parts, the controller… |
June 10th, 2007
The Original Nintendo Sony Playstation?
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The dedicated gaming fanatics over at Game Rave claim to have gotten their hands on what could be a rare piece of video game history. This chunky device is purported to be a prototype for the original Sony PlayStation. As most gaming geeks will tell you, Sony and Nintendo were… |
June 7th, 2007
Portable DVD Player Plays Movies, Tv, Mp4, Fm and Nintendo 8-Bit Games
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Leave it to the folks in China to bring us a single portable gadget that crams so much into such a little package. |
June 2nd, 2007
