NES casemod is a perfect Nintendo Home Theater PC

Each one of us has shared a little story with the NES. A reason why, even when motion sensing and other kinds of portable gaming consoles have taken over, we haven’t parted with our NES cases, they still lie in our stores and in most cases on that antique-stuff shelf in the house. Now, while we guys have the NES uselessly tucked away, a modder’s taken his Nintendo system to stuff it in with the innards of a PC – making his mod a perfect home theater PC in a NES.

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The untouched NES exterior houses a Zotac IONITX-A-U motherboard with a Dual Core 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N330 processor. The HTPC mod has 2GB of DDR2 RAM besides featuring NVIDIA GeForce9400M on NVIDIA ION chipset. Though the NES HTPC doesn’t fit a hard drive, it has Ethernet port and 802.11n Wi-Fi for connectivity. For external storage and connectivity the system has host of ports including six USB 2.0 ports, eSATA II port and HDMI out along with a 4GB flash drive installed with Ubuntu 9.10 and XBMC. If you can’t make one yourself you could buy the NES HTPC from Etsy for $475. And did I mention, the mod still play NES games but not without an emulator though.

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Via: Technabob/Dvice