Case Mods

[virtvic]

Has anyone done any case mods for consoles yet?

 

I'm talking kinda like a Ben Heck thing - making a console smaller, portable, adding a built in screen etc?

 

Has anyone even made a nice looking raspberry pi emulation console yet from online plans or maybe designed their own 3d printed parts etc?

 

I am working on an aluminium case for a Famicom at the moment. I have built a prototype and the concept works. I'm going to make a new one when work allows it and fix some of the errors in the first build. A friend of mine will be getting the prototype case for a famicom of his. Waste not want not!

 

 

 

[virtvic]

Here's something else I did a few years ago - took a clone Pong machine, hacked it, threw in a travel b&w 5" CRT in a custom made box and it turned out like this -

 

 

A youtube vid showinig it actually working - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjQJAdFxXo

[Keatah]

Turned out really really nice. It has overtones and style cues of the 70's yet looks modern and tight. Only thing I'd do it turn down the brightness or grid acceleration. Other than that perfect!

[Osgeld]

I used to be mr case mod for pc's (my next gaming pc is going to be modded out ill tell you that!) , it still creeps in here and there for consoles

 

my take on a nintoaster

 

 

 

years before that I made a oak n aluminum 2600 Jr, unfortunately all I have left as images go is the top plate

 

 

(yes i know it says start, I had to sand off all the laser engraving and redo it all, which sucked)

 

more recently I made my own coleco chameleon, which the following images are not up to date, I made a new hacked up 128 gig SNES cart cause that one sucks ass

 

 

that's a pi 3 with a MSATA drive in the cart and all the ports broken out to respectable places in the jag shell

 

 

 

 

its totally finished now aside from decal's, I went to price some professionally printed vinyl out, and found it's more or less by the sheet, so I had to scurry up graphics scaled to my next project, which is a Icade done up like a mini bar top frogger machine with a x86 mini laptop shoved in it (cause I can, and did buy a 1.8ghz dual core laptop with screen and 2 gigs of ram for 10$ cheaper than a pi3 before postage, and the 25$ laptop had free postage)

Edited February 20, 2017 by Osgeld

[virtvic]

Yes! This is the kinda thing I love to see!

Those toasters were all the range not too long ago!

 

I love the red glow of that nes cart cooking away!

[virtvic]

Keatah - thanks!

 

I think it's just the light that makes the screen look washed out. In reality, it's pretty good. It's modelled on the first Atari pong machine ever made.

[jediknight0]

I've done a few game system mods such as my TRON themed Flashback 2 (http://mods.xkill.net/gallery/TRON_2600/index.html), my TRON themed Wii (http://mods.xkill.net/gallery/TRON_Wii/index.html), and arguably my TRON themed iCade (http://mods.xkill.net/gallery/TRON_iCade/index.html).

 

Here's a few quick pics. More at the links above.

 

 

 

[Keatah]

Now that's a nice-looking mod. All of it.

[jediknight0]

Now that's a nice-looking mod. All of it.

 

 

Thanks.