Multi-Platform Console System - done (Phase 1: N64)

[bacteria]

I have created a portable console system which is a console system of two halves, one half contains a PSone screen, joysticks and button controls, the other half is the console system which inserts into the screen section like a large cartridge, in a way so that both parts interact with each other.

 

This system is currently complete with a modded N64, I will be making other systems like SNES, Megadrive, SMS, Jaguar, Gamecube, Playstation 1 also integrate into the same base unit over the next months.

 

This is a unique system as it makes console systems integrate into a base unit like large cartridges...

 

Please have a look at my website to see a video of the system and how it works, and to see step-by-step guides to making such a system.

 

www.modded-by-bacteria.com

[Seob]

Nice work. Looks good, just one question is it easy to handle? Are you getting any pain in the fingers by holding it, because it looks pretty big.

Hope that i can make something like that one day. Have to become more handy with electro first.

[yuppicide]

Same question here.. indeed looks cool, but big and a pain to hold.

[bacteria]

Nope, hold a book in one of your hands - see the gap between your thumb and forefinger (ie the thickness of the book) - if a hand held device is as thick as the distance between thumb and forefinger, it is comfortable to use and your fingers don't move about on the front of the system case. That is the principle I used with the system; my gap is about 29-34mm for comfort, my system completed is 33mm, so comfortable. This is about the thickness of a boxed N64 game.

[jboypacman]

Very interesting thanks for sharing.

[bacteria]

My pleasure, thanks.

 

One more system I will add to the list, I got an Atari Flashback today at a car boot sale for £5. Plays 20 Atari 2600 games, including a few memorable ones from my teenage years - Adventure, Sea Battle and Breakout!

[bacteria]

Uploaded a short video playing the N64 game of Pokemon Puzzle League on my system, thought you might be interested. This game uses the D-pad, which is not usual for the N64:

 

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