I’ve had it running for several hours on a hot day without a problem.

EXACTLY… i would do this mod in an instant if i thought it would keep cool,
But i think after 5 hours of intensive gaming that thing is going to over heat and die.

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Posted by Win31prgmr at 00:03 on Thursday, 19th April 2007

That is so cool!

Posted by MrE at 21:33 on Monday, 23rd April 2007

Good job m8, looks ace

Posted by wirl at 09:12 on Wednesday, 25th April 2007

I thought I was smart when I thought of this idea but of course someone thought of it before me

Posted by tom at 20:39 on Thursday, 26th April 2007

y waste 400 odd quid on a nes when u can just use a comp

Posted by deKay at 21:42 on Friday, 27th April 2007

To Tom: Why not? Why does anyone mod computers? Part of doing it was the fun, and part was the fact a NES looks much better under a TV than a PC does.

Posted by Adam at 04:10 on Friday, 4th May 2007

does your nes pc have a video out connection so u can hook it up to your tv?

Posted by deKay at 08:35 on Friday, 4th May 2007

To Adam: Yes, it has composite video out, so I can (and do) connect it to my TV. In fact, my new TV has VGA, so I don’t even need the composite port any more.

Posted by gamemaster14 at 19:36 on Friday, 11th May 2007

Any chance you could post some more photos of the finished unit including some shots of the sides and back? Maybe even a shot showing it connected to a monitor working? Also wanted to know, did you setup the nes power led to work as the power led for the computer, and if yes is it still the classic red?

Posted by deKay at 20:20 on Friday, 11th May 2007

I don’t have any other photos at the moment, but I may take some more in the future. Yes, the LED is red, and does work as the power LED!

Posted by joe G at 08:29 on Thursday, 17th May 2007

Could you run Mac OS on it?? What specs it got, 1gb ram? 80gb harddrive? etc.
Could u make it a monster eg. 3gb ram 160gb HD, 2.33 ghz proccesor??

I would love to get a poerfull mac into that, LOL!

Posted by Zeb at 20:57 on Tuesday, 22nd May 2007

cut too much of the case it doesn’t look original any more, I’m currently making one, here’s my link: http://zmanww.com/blog/index.php/2007/05/22/15ghz-1gb-ram-100gb-sata-and-a-dvd-rom-all-in-a-nes/

Posted by Rob Hazelby at 09:50 on Saturday, 23rd June 2007

A completely crazy, and utterly pointless project.

I love it!

Posted by omega3x at 19:39 on Saturday, 7th July 2007

wow that’s wicked… Unbelievable how many people have done this, I had the idea yesterday and thought I was the first, lulz.

Posted by eXo at 22:56 on Sunday, 29th July 2007

step2:

figure out a way to use the original NES controllers

Once someone figures that out, I’ll definitely be doing this.

Posted by deKay at 23:42 on Sunday, 29th July 2007

To eXo: that’s already been done by plenty of others, either by hacking the pad to fit a USB or parallel interface, or by rewiring the sockets.

Posted by Kyo at 09:30 on Friday, 3rd August 2007

mhmmmm… neat

Posted by Jimb0_d at 22:33 on Monday, 6th August 2007

Both serial and game pad hacks are good solutions are good but personally i prefer 2 of these babys mounted inside the console http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=116

and you can also get brand new replacment power switches that thake up much less room etc http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/ISW-4/700/PUSH_SWITCH_ASSEMBLY_.html

I will be doing both of these in the project im workin on currently. Im also gonna install a wifi card in the pci express slot

Posted by freelancer at 01:20 on Tuesday, 7th August 2007

Jimb0_d, thanks for the tip about the power switches. I was having a hard time figuring out how to fit the mobo and switches in the same case

Posted by Anonymous at 02:11 on Tuesday, 14th August 2007

If you’re interested in hooking up a PS2 controller, I happen to know of two Nuts&Volts articles available on Parallax.com, makers of some nice hobbyist chips; http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/cols/nv/vol4/col/nv101.pdf and http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/cols/nv/vol7/col/NV129.pdf.

Though they cover hooking up a PS2 controller to a Basic Stamp and a SX chip, the first article goes over just how the PS2 controller communicates, and is, therefore, kinda interesting information

As for putting the Mac OS on it; Apple doesn’t allow that, so I’d recommend a copy of Debian or a Debian-based distribution (e.g., Ubuntu) for its package selection (namely, the package manager).

Posted by Aaron Clay at 02:15 on Tuesday, 11th September 2007

Hmm, looks interesting. How does the cooling work out?

Posted by deKay at 08:35 on Tuesday, 11th September 2007

It gets a bit warm, but that’s mainly due to the Maxtor hard drive. A newer and/or laptop drive would improve things.

Posted by Alex at 18:25 on Saturday, 22nd September 2007

If anyone would like to buy my mini-itx nes pc then please email me. It is a reluctant sale but I have recently become addicted to a friends wii and so neeeed the money for a wii! For information on it look on my website http://maths.sci.shu.ac.uk/students/haslehurst_alexander/random/nespc/index.html
I would like to add that it is not perfect, but with some work it could be. Please look at my link. I might be able to convince you to look by telling you that the controller ports on the front actually work for nes controllers as usb game pads! Please email me with your offers. mralex742@hotmail.com

Posted by Tr@nKILLom@n at 21:01 on Tuesday, 19th February 2008

Hello
I build a new NES-PC…
visiting http://www.nes-pc.0rg.fr/ !!

Posted by kcp100 at 02:57 on Tuesday, 20th May 2008

i cant believe your still using the red led. blue is so much awesomer!!! thats what i use

Posted by PKPUREE at 22:06 on Monday, 7th July 2008

CAN U MAKE A HIFI STACK LOOKING ONE BECAUSE I TRYED AND IT DIDNT WORK LOL AND I SEE U COMMENTED ON THAT GAMEBOY LOL ITS GOOD INIT

NICE WORK

Posted by mdoom at 19:40 on Sunday, 9th November 2008

I just finished up an NES pc of my own, working on wiring the NES ports to the parallel port internally right now. I used a Blue LED too actually. I could have used the LED that was already there, but figured, why not put a new one in, so i did.

Posted by Andy at 16:27 on Monday, 1st December 2008

Very cool!

I did somthing simular with a old VIC-20. Take a look at http://andys.dyn-o-saur.com/the-vic20-pc/

Posted by Elfranne at 11:16 on Saturday, 13th December 2008

I am planning to make a file server out of a old NES with an Alix embedded card (pcengines.ch), do you have the dimensions of the inside of the NES so I can figure out how many hard disk drives there are space for ?

Posted by Lemonated at 17:03 on Saturday, 27th December 2008

I am planning to do my own NES PC, does anyone know how I could easily make a PC that would output video to SCART?

Posted by 8BITGAMR at 17:52 on Friday, 2nd January 2009

What operating system did you put on it? I honestly have no clue what that board can support, so that’s why I’m asking.

Posted by deKay at 21:02 on Friday, 2nd January 2009

8bitgmr: I put XP Pro on it, as that’s what I happened to have lying around.

Posted by James Green at 19:00 on Monday, 23rd March 2009

I wish I could do things like that. I’m just lacking a few skills: mechanical ability, knowledge of electronics,money, motivation. Seriously though, great project, very interesting

Posted by Eric Machuca at 02:58 on Wednesday, 22nd April 2009

I am currently making a NES PC and was wondoring if you can tell me step by step about how to make the nes power buttens work on the mother board? lik where to solder and what wires i need to attach

Posted by deKay at 08:14 on Wednesday, 22nd April 2009

Eric,
It’s quite easy really. You just need to run two cables from the power pins on the motherboard (see the motherboard manual for where these are) to the two points on the NES power daughterboard that are connected to the power button. Just make sure you remove the metal clip from the button that holds the button in when pressed.

Posted by metalboy94 at 13:14 on Wednesday, 8th July 2009

awesome man! but are all parts inside ventilated enough?

Posted by Jeffrey at 18:48 on Thursday, 20th August 2009

No cooling system?