This guy built a computer inside his NES. He’s also got his NES controller setup as the pointing device. He can then run an emulator to play the old skool games. I’m not sure how practical this is–as you really wouldn’t use it as a computer most likely.
Anyway, it’s nifty.
I got my Battle Arena Toshinden 2 Jamma board today. I plugged it into the Mortal Kombat cabinet just to make sure it works… it does. It wasn’t completely playable since it needs a different kick harness wired up than the MK board uses and I didn’t feel like messing with it. I’ll be setting it up in one of the Capcom cabinets soon, though.
I’ll post pictures and stuff some time this weekend.
Play N Trade in Bloomington, MN (France and West Old Shakopee Rd) just took in the largest number of NES carts to date for their store. A customer recently turned in 1200+ NES games and they’re just now beginning to catalog them. I’ve met the owners, Neal and Tanya, and they assure me that they’ll call me once they are cataloged.
If anyone else is interested, I’ll make sure to call you when they open the games up for sale.
With just a little bit of hacking, you can build an internet ready NES. Then cheaply mass produce them for distribution to under-developed countries. Only $12 per unit. Well… this is according to some smarty MIT dude.
