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nes mp3 player and speaker mod

filed under: hacks-mods | media players | retro | video games

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

nes controller mouse mod

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NES Gamepad Mouse

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…

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July 22nd, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

motorola slvr nes controller mashup

filed under: hacks-mods | mobile tech | strange and wonderful | video games

Moto SLVR NES Case Mod

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…

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July 9th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

musician releases album on an nes cartridge

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Alex Mauer’s Vegavox NES Cartridge

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 plugs into the console…

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July 8th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

classic nintendo controllers for your pc or mac

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Nintendo USB Controllers by Phreque

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 or Macintosh…

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July 7th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

nintendo console gets all soft and squishy

filed under: just plain fun | retro | video games

Plush Nintendo NES by BlueBlythe

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 of Mario and Duck Hunt…

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June 26th, 2007 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

the wii power glove

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wii power glove mod

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…

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June 10th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

giant nintendo controller won’t fit in your hands

filed under: hacks-mods | just plain fun | retro | video games

Giant NES Controller

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 is fully functional for playing games…

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June 10th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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