Keepin' it real fake, part CVIII: the PX-3600 gaming console
By Nilay Patel 
posted Jan 31st 2008 8:02AM
posted Jan 31st 2008 8:02AM
posted Jan 31st 2008 8:02AM
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If it plays NES games like most ripoff I want it!
No, but it'll emulate atari, cuz those are clearly atari joystiq connections.
BUT...Can it play CRYSIS?
"clearly atari joystiq connections."
Famicom clones use those connectors.
And the sega master system/megadrive/genesis.
Or... 9 pin rs232 :P
The controllers look like bat-er-angs....... and its a creepy looking mutated x box knock off. so cheezy
Also, it looks like it comes with FOUR controllers! Woo-hoo!
I can see only 2 controller slots...
That's not 4 controllers, they're trying to illustrate the "controller vibration" with limited graphic design skills.
Reminds me more of a Sega CD than an XBOX.
My "woo-hoo" was to indicate I was kidding.
More importantly, it looks as if they used the controller ports from a salvaged Sega Genisis. It always ruined my day when I bent one of those pins off and I could no long make Earthworm Jim 'jump'.
But, it's a bit more capable than the PS3 was upon release. They managed to get "controller vibration".
Let me guess--you don't own a PS3.
No, he doesn't. As you can see in the picture, he spent all his money on an Ariel Atom. Jeremy is King btw!
WOO! Top Gear!
WOO! Top Gear!
Jeremy rocks. Best humor EVER.
I however DO own a PS3.... and I was just scrolling down to see if anyone had made the comment that I had in mind...... so shh.
Yeah, if I ever found out one of these things could load emulators for snes, genesis, nes and so on I'd buy one in a heart beat given the price was right!
You can.... it's called a Dreamcast ;)
@Wes,
I had no idea you could set a Dreamcast up to play emulators! Thanks Wes, you just gave me something new to research.
man that makes me want to go out and get another dreamcast. I had a dreamcast set up with all the boot disks with emus and roms for nes and snes...i played those games more than the regular dreamcast games...but it got flooded....time to head on over to ebay for me!
nesterdc and dreamsnes are great.
And Nintendo and Sega need to wake up to the potential gold mine.
You could probably fit every NES game and every SNES and the software to run them on to less than 2 gigs. A real (licensed) nintendo TV Games/PlugnPlay for $49 or so would absolutely clean up.
My kids have worn out my sega plugnplay (6 games) and bypass the 360 to play dreamsnes on the Dreamcast (ok, that's just because I won't let them until I figure out the transition from m/kb to game pad for FPS games... grrr).
Two weeks after you get it, it displays a Giant Green X of Death. Much cooler than the Little Red Circle of Death.
haha good one
it's not actually made by microsoft, so there's no anything of death!
Do people actually fall for these or is there a specific market that knows what they are getting, but get it anyway?
The controller slots look like the old Atari 2600 slots. Just wondering can a slot like that handle the data transfer from a modern controller?
That depends on what kind of bus it uses. It appears to use a DB-9 connector, however DB-9 could use RS-232, or one of a dozen IEEE standards. And yes, several of those standards are fast enough for I/O speeds required by a controller.
When you see it you'll turn 3600 degrees and walk away.
turning 3600 degrees... wouldn't that put you right back infront of it?
By the time you've turned 3600 degrees, you'll be dizzy enough to have forgotten what you were doing anyways.
it actually means you are so awed at it and turn around 10 times to look again n again ;)
Aren't those Sega Genesis Controller ports?
lol was thinking the same thing...
It says 9 pin atari 2600 ports. So yes, they are.
Sega Genesis, Atari 2600/5200, Commodore 64, and many other consoles used 9pin ports.
Is that a massive heatsink I see on the left side? Man, that thing must get hot from all the pixels it has to push.
Nah... that is the built in "comb filter" for enhanced graphics.
I see. For a second I thought is was their answer to the Xbox 360 hard drive.
It makes the bits go faster.
Sega and Commodore used the same controller ports. Atari too, it seems.
I used a sega gamepad with my amiga back in the days. No problem, altough buttons B and C didn't work when connected to the amiga.
I hear this thing has a processor capable of 300 Terraflops and can push 30 billion triangles. It has so much power in fact, it can run Call of Duty 4, Halo 3 and the entire Sonic the Hedgehog series simultaneously off of one of its CPU cores.
wow, looks like someone stole one of the crappier concept design cases for the original xbox!
Ergonomics not included!