Mac Mini inside a NES

by Blake Snow { Mar 1st 2006 at 5:00AM }

We've seen a lot of NES mods, but this NES with Mac Mini guts is a first for us. From the article: "Inside you will find simply, a Mac Mini, a DVD writer, and the IDE to USB 2.0 circuitry... The power button does just what it says, as well as putting the Mac into sleep mode."

The dude even got the reset button to eject the DVD tray, not to mention motorized opening of the cartridge lid. Follow the link to see more photos along with modification details.

[Thanks, Brent]

See Also:
The Nintendo PC casemod; NES HTPC
NES alarm clock; hit Reset to sleep in

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

in5ane @ Mar 1st 2006 5:58AM

I bet the first thing he did was try a NES emulator :)

Lynk @ Mar 1st 2006 6:30AM

The icing on the cake would be if he could actually use the NES controllers connected to the NES controller slots to play that NES emulator :p

Jay @ Mar 1st 2006 7:15AM

The only problem there being the lack of the Slot loading drive. That would have sold it for me. would have been asking this guy to make me one XD

DG @ Mar 1st 2006 8:01AM

Read the article: "As for the controller ports, i found a circuit to enable me to plug in any NES peripheral and use it in emulators. I just have yet to purchase and install it." Seems like that's on its way.

Thank you for sharing this. I only wish I had this time, talent, and the necessary funds. I would love to own this machine, but I think that's true of anyone that sees it. Awesome.

Spencer @ Mar 1st 2006 9:27AM

Sweet! The only thing that kinda ruins this is the fact that it's a Mac. Although, it fits sorta well with the NES: no multitasking!

Josh @ Mar 1st 2006 9:56AM

Um.. yeah Spencer, the Mac OS has had preemptive multitasking for the past five or so years.. If you're going to bash the Mac at least do it from the right millenium.

Art Guy @ Mar 1st 2006 10:36AM

Spencer - Macs had multitasking in OS 8 and preemptive multitasking since the debut of OS X seven years ago.

Catch up with the rest of the class.

Draco @ Mar 1st 2006 11:03AM

as long as you use a mini mobo you can use a PC in there, I sent in a news tip yesterday for one that (i found out later) was 2 years old, was using an external (Brick) power supply, looked quite good, had slot loading DVD, 2.5 inch HDD, and the original NES A/V cables, replaced the white connector in the back with S-Video, and had USB 2.0 and firewire where the plastic thing is next to the game tray.

looked really sweet. but he couldnt get the power button to work, reset and power were kinda switched.