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nintendo 64 + lazer doodle + psone = darth64

darth64_portable_n64

We already featured Jon Jandran aka Hailrazer’s awesome Dreamcast portable mod, the dreamtrooper. He originally wanted to paint the dreamtrooper’s case black and call it the DarthCast, but he decided to stick with the original console’s white color. But he also ended up stuffing a Nintendo 64 into a Lazer Doodle – a gadget that…

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August 31st, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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princess peach’s castle n64 casemod is just a little over the top

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This insane looking N64 has to be one of the most creative video game casemods I’ve seen in quite a while.

When I first saw the photos of this thing, I actually thought it was some sort of wedding cake. But hiding beneath the Princess Peach’s castle shell is a fully-functional Nintendo 64 console.

The…

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July 19th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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portable n64 straight from hyrule

portable n64 zelda green diy mod

It’s becoming quite normal for amazing DIY portable systems to pop up everywhere. If it can play games, someone’s going to try to make it portable, and the Nintendo 64 is one of the most popular candidates for such projects. So what’s a portable aficionado to do to stand out in such a crowd? Why,…

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February 26th, 2009 comments (11) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

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handheld n64 is awesome, non-ergonomic

diy custom portable handheld n64 nintendo sixtyfree lite-r

The Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R: the past of gaming, futurized in handheld form. While playing this shrunken, portable N64 might be a challenge, particularly when it comes to, say, some of the console’s excellent first-person shooters, it certainly looks good.

BenHeck.com forumite SifuF cut away half the size of the original N64 and added a headphone jack…

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December 30th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

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mario power stars get the origami treatment [papercraft]

Mario Star Origami by This Fffire

When I think of Origami, I usually think of little paper swans, or maybe the unicorn that Edward James Olmos made in Blade Runner. But who says that video games can’t get in on the paper foldin’ action?

Individually cut and folded by Flickr contributor Lidia F. (aka “This Fffire“), these tiny Power Stars look…

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June 30th, 2008 comments (10) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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