Wooden portable NES lets you game in style
By Nilay Patel 
posted Apr 7th 2008 2:51PM
posted Apr 7th 2008 2:51PM
[Via Ben Heck]
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Thats hot.... but not hopefully to hot, otherwise all that will be left of it is ashes and molten lump of plastic.
Oh, and the tattered, charred remains of your portable wodden NES dreams mixed in there too.
well, they could install a fan, which would have the added advantage of blowing on the cartridge!
It looks smaller than my original Game Boy!
The portable uses a NOAC which produces very little heat. I guess the onyl bad thing would be if the protection circuit in the Lithium battery decided to fail.
That's hot, I dig it.
i'm paris hilton and i approved of this comment
I wooden like that: fir a few reasons. First I would be pineing for a PSP.
Secondly I think the builder should spruce it up a bit you know go out on a limb, branch out into some other materials. Lastly if it over heats he would have been better off using Ash.
very punny.
"wood" have been better off...come on now... ;)
personally, i'm pining for the fjords
Well guys I didn't want it to just be mahogany pun limelight.
""wood" have been better off...come on now... ;)"
....but +1 anyway! very funny and creative...
Warm enough to give you a woody.
That's a really nice mod. You can see the side vent slots. As long as there's plenty of room around the chips for air to flow, it should keep cool enough.
So if I play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on this thing will I get a Splinter?
Ba-Dum-Ching!
Judges?
GER 10.0 USA 10.0 CHN 10.0 RUS 10.0 FRA 1.0
oooh france destroys the newcomers hope once again.
@lonecow
Best comment ever.
From the coffee mug in the background, does Dillmann guard the president while gaming on his portable?
Nah I got the mug at a thift store a couple years ago. Currently use it as a pencil holder.
since when has wood = style? i thought the phase went out with the "wood" pt cruiser?
ever notice that half of danny glover's speaking lines in the 3 or 7 lethal weapon movies they made consist of "Riggs! Hey Riggs!" ?
nah.... wood will never go out of style, for it implies:
1) craftmanship
2) labor of love
3) a connection with nature.
I worked with both wood and fiberglass growing up (father was a boat-builder / owner of a boat yard), and though I would be hard pressed now to pull off even a "simple" case like this one above (nevermind dealing with the electronics), I can say working with wood is a challenge and people visiting would always comment more on the wooden boats then on the shiny smooth fiberglass ones.
And I really hate saying this, especially as my w00d skillz ain't up to date, but he used too much wood. I would do the controls in brushed aluminium. And possibly the side vents. Or go with a very blonde wood and brushed nickel controls.
The PT Cruiser was never okay, no matter what anyone tells you.
This, on the other hand, is pretty okay. Loses points on originality (wood portable SNES HAS been done, after all), but the execution is fantastic.
@absurdio
Does it really mater about originality when I made the wooden SNES to? :)
@hypereric
Thanks for the comments. I will consider using some stainless steel in my next design probably for the buttons and D-pad.
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, select, start
Super C FTW
\\//\\//(())\\//\\//. You have made feel extra old on my bday. Thank You :)
Here is a video demo if you want to see them in action ;)
http://www.nowhereelse.fr/?p=3215
That's the Super Nintendo.
That was the Konami Code, but it didn't work in Super C.
Johnson & Johnson's PR team is already previewing their new youth oriented campaign for Lemon Pledge™ based on the above entitled: "Take the Pledge™ Polish yer knobs challenge, boys!"
does it play doom?
Actually yes, it sure does. Now shut up.
http://www.gamespot.com/snes/action/doom/index.html
I retract my previous statement about it playing doom as I am clearly not on the ball today with that whole "reading" thing.
pwnage via irrefutable evidence. I like it.
Good work makishima.
crap .....ok really? Engadget fix the damn headline or the article. One says NES the other says SNES >< I'm going back to bed.....just as soon as work is over....
@nobody : oups, you're right... sorry...
Correction: it was up up down down left right left right b a b a start
or select start for two players :)
not to be a d1ck, but only one set of B A.
a common misconception to think two of them, because it would work with 2, but really only needed one
:(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code
Well then I retract MY previous statement.
What has been spoken cannot be unspoken.
This is for the poor sap who gets stuck playing woodblock in a psychedelic jam-band. They can take a Mario 3 break in the middle of that ridiculous 8 minute guitar solo.
I have never wanted something so badly in my life.
The slots on the side are not vents - they're speaker holes. It's just a Nintendo-on-a-chip (NOAC) so it really doesn't need much ventilation at all.
Awesome work as usual, Parker!
Thanks!
Sorry about the website being down. It is currently back up (6:46PM Central) but I don't know how long till my host shuts it down again.
I. LOVE. THIS.
Lemme know if you decide to retail these. Any chance of getting one that would play all generations Game Boy (except for probably DS)? My only fear would be that humidity would get into the wood and cause warpage and/or damage to the electronics (and possibly the cart). But hey, I'd start collecting NES games again for this.
BRILLIANT!
The wood is covered in a polyurethane so there is no chance of humidity warping the case. As for a portable that plays all generations gameboy. Wouldn't that be a GBA?
Polyurethane? Sweet. Actually, believe it or not, GBA doesn't play original Game Boy cartridges, it only starts with Game Boy Color... or does it? Now that I have a DS, seems pretty redundant to get a GBA, but a wooden Game Boy that can play NES and SNES cartridges... all's missing is the N64! (Unless if someone is REALLY crafty and can do a wooden, portable GameCube! Where can I buy the set? :) )
This reminds me of when Bender got sick of technology and decided to go with an all-wood body. And we all remember how that ended...
I like how the tiny screen makes it less pixelized.