Modders gut an SNES, cram in a PC

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 20th 2009 at 1:00AM }

The SNES you see above, ladies and gentlemen, is no SNES at all. It is, in fact, a fully functioning PC (an Acer Aspire One netbook, if you want to know). Built by quangDX and DuPPs of Asobitech.com, the AASNES1 packs all the connections you need, WiFi and even some cool USB extension cables that plug directly into the console's controller ports (its makers also modified a Super NES controller to work as a USB controller). The DVD-RW drive is located inside the Super Mario World cartridge and the modders even made the Super Nintendo logo on the back light up. It is, in summation, sweet.

Check out a video of the AASNES1 after the break and head over to Asobitech for a step-by-step retelling of its creation.

[Via Engadget]

Tags: aasnes1, asobitech, hacks, mods, snes

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Look At This Suit @ Jun 20th 2009 1:07AM

So...I CAN'T play my copy of Turtles in Time on it?

Look At This Suit @ Jun 20th 2009 1:19AM

Alright, I need to tell this story since we're talking about the SNES.

So it's a couple of years ago. A rainy day. My neighbors are having a garage sale. I walk in, and I'm drawn to a bin, this MAGICAL bin...This bin contained a functional SNES, a Game Genie, about 15 games including Turtles in Time and Sunset Riders, and a bomberman party pack.

20 clams. Best. Day. EVER.

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 1:25AM

well, actually, you can play any SNES game...

Look At This Suit @ Jun 20th 2009 1:30AM

I said MY copy, good sir.

InFaMoUs1- @ Jun 20th 2009 1:41AM

here's an even better story when i was 12 me, my cousin and a friend went to this asain guys garage sale and my friend found a original Mr. Game and Watch in mint condition with the original case for $5. Thing looked like it was never even played once. I hated him for getting it before I could.

PS36Wii Fanboy @ Jun 20th 2009 1:46AM

Rofl I still have the other model of the SNES... you know the one with the 2 purple switches and the big grey Eject Button

Sly @ Jun 20th 2009 1:59AM

ahh, i see what you mean. i don't see how it makes a difference, but my bad.

Cafolatra @ Jun 20th 2009 11:11AM

Technically you can dump your copy of turtles of time to a Rom, and when you play it in any emulator you're playing YOUR copy.

Hukuzo @ Jun 20th 2009 1:14AM

Pretty cool. I could use a new computer too.

ohyeahcola @ Jun 20th 2009 1:58PM

ME TOO!!!!!

Jeff @ Jun 20th 2009 1:17AM

Boo - I'd rather have a PC with SNES hardware inside. What a waste of a SNES! Think they'd let me have the guts of it if I asked nicely? ;)

offday @ Jun 20th 2009 8:59AM

I agree. It is a waste. Especially when it's the slim SNES model.

chispito @ Jun 20th 2009 12:17PM

Eh, I could sacrifice my spare SNES console for this. Not my SNES Mini though, that's too near and dear to my heart.

The only thing I would have done differently--and maybe this would have been just too difficult--is to have modified a 4-play adapter into a USB hub which you could plug normal controllers into. Good, original SNES controllers are difficult to come by, and I wouldn't want to do the modding on the controller side of things if I could help it.

samik @ Jun 20th 2009 1:55AM

Doesnt that just show how far computer tech has come, I guess small electronic stuff today have faster processors than the SNES. Can still remember my first PC (maybe 10,12 years back) had a hard drive with lower capacity (2 GB) than the RAM we have today.

The Baron @ Jun 20th 2009 9:30AM

The iPhone could run hundreds of SNES games simultaneously.

Technology is awesome.

Dipso @ Jun 20th 2009 1:25PM

I still have a 80MB (yes, megabytes) hard drive laying on a shelf somewhere. Think i had a 20MB one to, but that was never from one of my computers, but rather a relic i salvaged from some old throwaways at a local business.

Quattro @ Jun 20th 2009 2:08AM

An Acer Aspire Netbook?
Doesn't really seem worth it.

Foetoid @ Jun 20th 2009 2:30AM

I will pay $5000 to own one, right now, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps: i've been drinking, sorry.

SJSchmidt93 @ Jun 20th 2009 3:12AM

People think Natal is amazing...

THIS is amazing....

Meh @ Jun 20th 2009 3:50AM

...and makes Natal obsolete because...

sjenky @ Jun 20th 2009 5:10AM

...it has mouse-and-keyboard functionality...

S. Tiger @ Jun 20th 2009 6:27AM

And can run most of the games that an Xbox 360 has.

Freestyle Farfetchd @ Jun 20th 2009 11:31AM

I personaly think it's quite telling that the Wii has to offer SNES games for download to add to it's library of good games! Especially when you can get them for free and play them on better emulators anyway.

Freestyle Farfetchd @ Jun 20th 2009 11:32AM

Sorry, that last comment was meant to reply to Foetoid

Ridgecity @ Jun 20th 2009 3:17AM

That Super Nintendo is an probably an European model, that's why it's looks like a Super Famicom.

matsumoto @ Jun 20th 2009 6:00AM

yes, it is.

Foetoid @ Jun 20th 2009 8:11AM

That model of SNES in that pic/video is the only model of SNES i have ever known. And i'd like it to stay that way thanks.

&rew @ Jun 20th 2009 3:27AM

I'm confused, did the Wii just get pwned by an SNES.

InFaMoUs1- @ Jun 20th 2009 3:34AM

lol yes

Foetoid @ Jun 20th 2009 6:22AM

No. It didn't. Stop being gay.

Even WITH keyboard/mouse support for FPS, the Wii would STILL hold it's own.

offday @ Jun 20th 2009 9:02AM

You're apparently too young to remember the awesomeness of the SNES. It does pwn the Wii, and every other system ever made. Unfortunately this mod ruined a SNES, so it is officially a sucky mod.

Ninbrendo @ Jun 20th 2009 9:43AM

@Foetoid:

Stop being straight.

Foetoid @ Jun 20th 2009 11:07AM

Plz Offday, don't be so presumptuous. So i'm too young to remember the awesomeness of the SNES when i started gaming on the Atari 2600? At the age of 2!

/Fail.

I would only remotely slightly maybe THINK about considering the SNES is better than the Wii, if the Wii didn't have SNES games available to DL. But since it does, then the Wii is pwnt. Sorry.