nes arcade finished

[meshary980]

can you make me one

[missminddy]

love love love. i'm going to be a woodshop ninja and make my boyfriend one for his birthday!

[irenethefairy]

RESPECT !

[FlareneX]

You sir have beat Nintendo...which is like minecraft, damn near impossible

[cheese9545]

R u still not selling I'll pay 1500$

[GalaticTG]

Are you using a microcontroller to control the controller IO ports. or did you rig something up with the parrellel port.

[russm313]

@GalaticTG, No Micro controller. It works through the parallel port.

[dragonmaster777777]

i will pay 250 for one let me know if you're interested

[NightbladeEagle]

Wow...I really like this.

Just one Question: How hard would it be to make a SNES One. Cause I really want to try this.

[nesbitvids]

Wow, amazing bit of kit :)

[MatrixSlide]

About how much money did the whole project take to build?

[russm313]

@MrFRoDiZle No, why do you ask?

[vVHollyWoodLightsVv]

Thats amazing. Great work!

[willybean69]

Nice Cab. I built a Nintendo themed bartop about 4 years ago that is very similar to this cabinet. Are you on BYOAC?

[l8erh8er420]

this is hot. good job.

[TechnoBoy301]

What if we ONLY have a PS/2 Type Keyboard and Mouse......

[cloud1414]

@TechnoBoy301 could always buy an adapter very cheap at radioshack

[RetroGameBros]

Could you just use an nes advantage for the buttons and joystick???

[DanesGames]

You did such an amazing job on that. I'm very jealous indeed.

[SoftyOfTheHado]

A bit small but cool!

[xxliljpxx]

wish I had more arcade cabinet knowledge... :(

[russm313]

@TheNeverSayNever83

Sorry, I don't sell them.

[YourADrag]

thats sweet. do you sell them?

[russm313]

@YourADrag

sorry, no.

[9lucky2]

guys he teaches you how to make this at instructables(.)com just search How to build a Nintendo arcade its awesome

[antmanadam77]

what vb program did you use?

[antmanadam77]

actually what fe program did you use

[PerActionRob]

You need to start selling these, I will buy one right now and in all seriousness can probably get you about 300-400 orders for these if you wanted to make a business out of it. How many games can you put on a system like this? I assume it's just a matter of hard drive space?

[g1Chase357]

What version of Contra is that?! I've never seen an intro screen with the earth and a level map like Ghost 'n Goblins!!

[riderdraw]

do you have posed how to make it

[srshiroma]

Great job!

[elektor1984]

FANTASTIC!!!

Your are grand!

[GNARfreshh]

This is awesome, and I'm planning on making a really similar MAME cabinet with my old PC, 2 questions though- What control interface are you using and what did you use to use the joystick as a mouse?

[mvbl]

Awesome work.

[03matherb]

NICE!

do u have any blue prints /sizes for the wood u used

and how do u connect ur buttons/joy to the pc

[UltraHaxor]

Where did you get the marquee illuminator?

[russm313]

I used a piece of plexiglass to cover the picture that I printed out.  Behind the picture is just a 2 foot fluorescent fixture.

[01Slayer10]

OMG Auwsom im now watching ur tutrial how to make :)

[UltraHaxor]

The one I'm building will play not only nes games, but atari and mame games as well...

Work in progress...

[awesomepivots]

nice job man, i just built one of these as well cept its a full stand up and its original hardware, vid comin soon

[trople]

Nice stuff, well done!

Thought of making the VB "game select" app support the joystick?

[fierrosoft]

it would be better if you build the software for it

for example u could use an unix based system instead of wandows and then modify the start up scripts

[fuzzywzhe]

Ever consider selling these?

I'd suggest using an ATOM based mother board, You'd probably fail FCC guidelines for noise though.

[russm313]

I would guess and say it weighs about 25 Kg. DOS would probably work better because it uses less resources. You would just have to make sure your emulator was a DOS based emulator. I think Nesticle is DOS.

[drandula]

Okay, could it fall easily, or is its weight more in bottom so you dont have to worry about that? Is it easy to move somewhere else or would be better add handhelds?

Yeah, I thought Nesticle too. Its pretty good even its old :) And has nice mouse x)

[drandula]

Nh? It didnt post my previous post, where I talk about making own and asking tips.

[russm313]

The only comment I see from you is asking about putting the buttons on the side. I'll be glad to help anyway that can, what are your questions?

[drandula]

I dont really remember now, but new questions about cabinet. How heavy it is? (kg plz). And could I use DOS to play? That way you wouldnt need start up Windows, right? I thought, that its old computer so would DOS be better option and it has floppy disk driver, so it would be interesting to play with these :P

Those would be first questions.

(Really, I am just n00b and lot of questions :/ )

[drandula]

Oh, and I thought, is it easy to push A and B buttons? Or would it be better place buttons side of product?

And now I am going read your instructions :)

[russm313]

I can't imagine that the buttons would be better if they were on the sides of the cabinet.

[Bloodshedood]

camoflagued dog at 03:01 lol cool machine BTW, wish i had one.

[imprompturob]

Excellent work :) Please tell me you have a step-by-step somewhere...

[dcproductionsTV]

simply genious

[jkdeadite]

This is one of the better uses I've seen for unused computers. NES doesn't take much to run, so I imagine you could use a lot of old machines. Maybe I'll do this when I replace my laptop.

[swayso]

that's just so cool. nice job.

[soyziea]

hot.

[RetroVGamer]

Awesome cabinet, not to nitpick or anything, but it would be nice if it had a slot for NES carts as well.

[suford]

The cabinet looks really good, man. Very tight, professional looking.

[ckylover1]

very nice... i like your shirt also

[russm313]

Thanks :)

[carolinasled]

Very Nice.

[armonigann]

That is too sweet!!! great job!!

[earlvanze]

instructable is great.

[MasterCjay]

That's pretty awesome--saw the Instructable.

Nice doggie. ^_^;

[russm313]

:) thanks, we didn't even realize the dog was in the shot until after it was posted.

[UltraHaxor]

Since you used a four-way joystick, (as I saw in the instructable), how are you able to shoot diagonally in Contra?

sorry if that sounds like a stupid question... :-/

Also, what emulator did you use? None of the emulators I've tried can play super mario bros or Punch-Out.

[Kulawendin]

When you move the joystick diagonally the game can detect it because it sends two directions instead of just one. For example, you move the joystick to the left and the game reads "Left", you move it upwards and the game reads "Up" you move it diagonally between the two and the game reads "Up, Left", so although it's four-way it can actually go eight ways.

Also, if your emulators can't play simple games like Mario and punch-out, you need a new emulator.

[russm313]

a 4-way joystick will still move on the diagonal. I am using fceux as an emulator.

[partylikepacman]

@russm313

Thats kind of what I was wonder how can you get diagonals with a 4 way joystick.

[UltraHaxor]

That's insane!

About how much did it cost to make?

If I can afford it, I'll definitely build one of these!

5/5

[Kulawendin]

It costs about as much as a computer, monitor, and a wooden box costs.

[russm313]

@kulawendin: and the costs of the joystick, buttons, keyboard, surge protector, rocker switch, 5 SPST push buttons, 1/4 sheet of plexiglass, A/C power jack, components for NES ports, paint and primer, and computer speakers.

[russm313]

I spent about $70.00 not counting the monitor and PC.

[Darkofdeath5]

This is sick but it's so hard to make.

[Kulawendin]

Actually it's not that hard, it's just a computer in a wooden box.

[russm313]

@kulawendin. It's a "little" more than just a computer in a wooden box. There is a LOT of soldering and electronics work involved, plus the control panel, joystick, buttons, etc. Then there is setting everything up, software wise. While it is not rocket science, I do not believe it's fair to say it's the equivalent of sticking a PC in a box.

[TheNanoCube]

A touch screen would be pretty handy on that

[Kulawendin]

A touch screen would also raise the price of this project by a whole lot, and probably wouldn't be worth it.

[thefutureisnow]

It wouldn't be terribly expensive if you get one of those kits that converts a regular screen into a touch screen. I saw one for a 17" screen that only costs $145.