A resourceful case modder has managed to install a Vista-equipped PC into a NES case. The mod includes a 1.33 MHz Celeron processor, 1GB of RAM, Sony DVD burner, 160GB Seagate hard drive, WiFi, Bluetooth and a nVidia GeForce 5200 graphics card. Even sweeter? A NES controller has been modded to function as the mouse. The item was posted for sale on Craigslist, and sold for a paltry USD$800.
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A group of musically minded gamers have developed an emulation of the NES classic Super Mario Bros. that uses sound as a means for control. Players can sing, clap or play musical instruments in order to advance Mario through the stage. While it’s currently more of a crazy student project than a releasable game concept, we wouldn’t be surprised to see something like this turn up on the microphone-equipped Nintendo DS eventually.
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Think you’re pretty good at Mario? A Super Mario World hack known as Kaizo Mario (roughly translates to Asshole Mario) will sort you out.
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As if the risk of bricking your PSP wasn’t enough, now you can potentially blow your hand off in the quest to run homebrew on your PSP. A member of legendary console modder Ben Heckendorn’s forum has posted instructions for turning a standard Sony PSP battery into a Pandora’s Battery with a soldering iron, instead of another already homebrew-enabled PSP.
We’re not joking about the blowing your hand off thing either - please take note of the warnings and do not attempt this modification if you aren’t experienced with a soldering iron.
Once upon a time, long before this site existed, someone with a lot of spare time on their hands hacked Super Mario World, adding a level that completed itself without any input from the user.
I’m not sure they were aware of quite how far the obsessive-compulsive meme-junkies that inhabit the dark corners of the internet were going to take this obscure new pastime.
Now the “Automatic Mario” meme has been cross-pollinated with the end theme from the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Hare Hare Yukai, a rampant internet phenomenon in and of itself. Yes, this hacked level completes itself and manages to sound like the end theme from an anime at the same time.
An undeniably brilliant effort that raises the question - where on earth will they take this one from here?
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Here’s an interesting entry into the IFA CaseCon Championship 2007 by Oliver König. Oliver wasn’t to be found on the show floor, so we’re unable to comment on why he decided not to send this one in under warranty - however we can tell you he spent just seven and a half hours executing this fairly impressive PC case mod. The total cost? 20 Euros.
Lair was set to be a killer app for the PlayStation 3 - after all, Factor 5 have a great track record for games that involve flight. While one can typically expect to come across a couple of bad reviews for even brilliant titles, Lair has been almost universally bashed for suffering from a lousy Sixaxis implementation - with no option for using the left analog stick.
This video apparently shows an unmodified PlayStation 3 console booting a backup of a PSone game, by means of a recently found exploit for the TIFF loading functionality in v1.9 PS3 firmware.
Should this turn out to be more than a convincing hoax, this trick will only work with PlayStation 3 models with hardware backwards-compatibility - so PAL regions are out of luck…but realistically, they should be used to that by now.
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The guys at DIY Life have compiled a list of things to do with a busted Nintendo, guaranteed to add a touch of nostalgia to your home. I’m not sure you’ll get a great tone out of the NES guitar, but you could rock out pretty hard - provided you’re wearing your NES undies.
