The first month of [WoolyDawg5's] summer break went into building one Nintendo emulator to rule them all. He thinks there’s nothing like playing the games on the original controllers, and we agree with him 100%. Here you can see that the cartridge door on this NES enclosure hides the extra connectors he needs.
With that door closed this looks like a stock console, but only from the front. If you take a look at the back of it you’ll see how he pulled this off. There’s a Zotac motherboard whose I/O panel has been fitted into the back. It’s responsible for emulating games for the NES, SNES, and GameCube consoles — we’re sure it can do more but that covers the controller ports seen here. Each port is wired to a USB controller module. The cables for these modules exit the back of the case and plug into the motherboard’s I/O panel. There is WiFi for the board, and that’s what [WoolyDawg] uses for configuration, tunneling into the OS instead of connecting a keyboard or mouse.
Of course you could just shoehorn all-original console hardware into one package to accomplish something like this.
[Thanks KoldFuzion]
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I did the very same a year or so ago. I did as little mod to the case as possible, with the exception of knocking out the bottom bracket for video and PSU cables and removing the original A/V ports for USB ports. Here’s some pictures of the project in process and finished project.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51929956@N05/sets/72157626135781655/
While its cool
snes and nes (posibly gamecube too) use the same type of port its just in a different physical configuration
so i just put nes ends on my snes controllers (you do have to swap 2 wires i forget the colors)
and everything neatly plugs into the regular controller port
i sent in my emulater in a nes about a year ago but Hack A Day had no interest.
Tyler, swap Y & R based on the USB chip you posted later.
Surely there are internal USB headers on the motherboard? Or at least a small USB HUB to save having all the wires around the back, ruins it i think, so very close to be awesome, just tidy up the back :D
looking through the build pictures he posted, there is one clear shot of the motherboard before he mounted it in the case. It clearly shows a pair of internal USB headers. While it may have been even more cramped – it should have been possible to squeeze a small usb hub hardwired to one of those headers inside.
Even without going that far – this is an impressive build!
to avoid such a cable mess on the backside god invented internal usb ports
Hey, just wanted to point out that those are N64 ports, not GCN. Neat mod, nonetheless!
I was going to paint this out as well.
Those are N64 and the photos on the site show N64 Emulation, not GameCube… GameCube controllers sucked anyway… ;-p
paint=point… I have special fingers.
Is it me or doesn’t he say what USB NES/SNES converters he is using?
http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=44
probably that
N64, not gamecube.
Why doesn’t someone offer mini-Atx cases like this?
WHERE CAN I GET 1? i NEED THIS IN MY LIFE!!!
I have a Nintendo Game Cube but with no wires or plug in’s. Renters took the wires, left the cube.