Mod plays NES in a NES cartridge

by Candace Savino { Jul 5th 2008 at 6:00PM }

This might just be the coolest thing we see all weekend.

Darkeru from the Ben Heck forums came up with the idea for this beauty, and after months of "careful planning," finally finished his creation. It's exactly what you think it is; a mod that plays NES games on a NES game cartridge. What an ingeniously simple idea (though if we really think about it, our brains might implode).

The games are built into the portable -- ninety-nine of them, in fact -- which sounds pretty convenient. Other than that, we have nothing to say except that we're still gawking at this thing. Oh, and do want.

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Tags: cartridge, console, darkeru, hack, nes

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

CamranChaos @ Jul 5th 2008 7:04PM

99 games? How would you even do that?! Emulation? That's amazing. I love the stuff fans can come up with.

ssuk @ Jul 6th 2008 7:56AM

Emulation is unnecessary. NES-on-a-Chip... Chips are tiny now, bung one of those in, hook it up to some NAND Flash memory (they're also tiny), place a ROM with a menu system packed with other games on that memory... Sorted.

This method would cut down on battery consumption (it's not CPU pretending to be another CPU which requires twice as many calculations a second), cuts down on hardware required and is also much more efficient.

Dick @ Jul 7th 2008 3:02PM

I got 99 Roms

And "The Glitch" aint one

BDR @ Jul 5th 2008 7:21PM

Seems like incest...

Patius @ Jul 6th 2008 12:46AM

That is awesome.

The Overlord @ Jul 6th 2008 4:41AM

Does that mean incest is awesome?

nikomo @ Jul 7th 2008 10:33AM

Where are the start and the select buttons at?

Candace Savino @ Jul 7th 2008 10:41AM

On the sides, like so: http://nintendo.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/dsc02469.jpg

If you click on the "Source" link below the post, you can check out the forum where Darkeru explains more details about this neat little mod :)

Joe | A New Band A Day @ Jul 7th 2008 1:08PM

That is genuinely lovely. If I had one, I walk around with it, switched on, in my hand at all times just so that when someone asked me about it, I could say things like, "What - this old thing? Oh, it's just something I threw together, you know..." and vanish in a puff of smug smoke. Or something.

Joe http://www.anewbandaday.com