Update

It's been a few weeks since I last posted. I wanted to post a lot more but sometimes life comes at you fast. It's kinda hard to get anything done with a 6 month old crawling around. Some things that's I've accomplished so far. I ended up installing windows 7 on it because I couldn't get windows xp to install via usb. Since it has SATA and not IDE I couldn't just simply use a cd drive to install the OS...well I could of but I didn't want to spend...

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Retro Conversion

If you have been following along you should remember that one of the things I wanted to accomplish was converting an SNES Controller to work with the system ports. Well, I've successfully managed to do so with ease. Desolder your NES controller like so. All you have to do is heat up the solder and the and pull the wires out. They will come out relatively easy. You now have the cable you will be using to for the SNES controller. Take the SNES...

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First boot

Well today I finally got a chance to fire this bad boy up. Everything seems to be working well. I just made a quick video showing it posting to the bios and stuff. I took a couple of pictures to show you how everything is coming. I'll be on vacation starting Saturday so I'm hoping that I'll have the majority of this thing built. Here's some snaps and the vid. The video quality isn't the greatest since it was takin with my phone. I'm sure you...

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And so it begins

Well I have just about all the parts I need for the system to run. The only thing I'm waiting for now is my processor (which will be here tomorrow) and my power supply. The system has been completely dismantles and is being prepped for a trial install. Today I started hacking away at the NES base to make room for the motherboard,and all the other parts needed to run it. I used a dremel to remove all the unnecessary screw posts. I'm going to see if I can avoid removing the raised part of the case,but if I can't then I'll have to come up with a...

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The Nes Arcade...sort of

This project has been done by many others before, and will continue to be done many times over. Why would you do such a thing you ask? Because we can. Technology has advanced a lot over the past 20 years. Even more so it has gotten smaller, and will continue to get smaller until our scificification ceases to exist. I know, I know... scificification isn't a real word, but really it all depends on what your definition of "is" is... My primary goal for this project is just to have fun, and relive the good old Nintendo glory days. I'm hoping as my...

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