The PC, Xbox, PS2, GameCube and 2600, Together at Last 145
The Screen Savers have a story on their website about the building of a single box 2600/PS2/GameCube/Xbox/PC/ NES player. But this is not a mame ? box. The builder, Yoshi, dismantled, cut,chopped and belt-sanded the consoles to make them all fit in the same Lian-76 case. I can only imagine how hot this case might get. There is a photo album here. It looks like you'd still need a video switcher to take advantage of this completely. A cool mod for this would be to pack in a wintv card for each console or something.
The Point? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The Point? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the sort of "because we CAN" geek project that needs no practical justification. You don't see the inate brilliance of cutting things out of their boxes and putting them in other boxes? Tough.
Dreamcast? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: The PC, Xbox, PS2... (Score:2, Insightful)
Unfortunately, you don't get great pictures of the final product, just pics of it during production. O well.
This is pretty cool though, and I assume if you could do all of this that you could add a Super NES, an N64 and other gaming platforms. Too bad I don't have the time to do this.
Also, doesn't this fit under Hardware [slashdot.org] rather than Games [slashdot.org]?
Money? (Score:2, Insightful)
My main problem with these kind of mods are the potential for loss. If I had and 8 bit nintendo, and an atari 2600 that still worked, I would be too worried about breaking them to hack them into bits. Not to mention spending several hundred dollars on the modern consoles to squeeze in too.
Besides, If you have hacked your xbox like that you wouldn't get any more official M$ tech support (tee hee)
Heat concerns? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The Point? (Score:5, Insightful)