Vintage NES cartridges as 1TB external drives

[hunter291]

its just taking a nes game, removing the inside and fitting a hdd in it if i got it right

 

[xist]

WOAH THERE!

Tempers always get there first....
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=219531

 

[qlum]

indeed as far as I can see he started selling those since august at least that's the earliest one still in the shop and Dteyn made a tutorial how to make them in april

 

[Lube_Skyballer]

Holy crap! Those mousepads are so friggin' awesome. want!

 

[Eerpow]

I hurts to see that they ruined a golden Zelda cartridge.
Bye, I'm gonna cry now...

Spoiler

 

[KingAsix]

I was gonna do something like this with an SNES cartridge and the HDD outta my old laptop, but I need an enclosure. There's a tutorial on here for it.

 

[GundamXXX]

Dont know why they used a golden Zelda cartridge T_T

But hella cool!

I wonder.. can you make GB/GBA carts into USB flash drives?

Someone should try!

 

[spinal_cord]

NES boards take up almost no space inside the casing, it would be trivial to leave most games in working order with the HDD inside

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

NES boards take up almost no space inside the casing, it would be trivial to leave most games in working order with the HDD inside

Would that not cause overheating issues?
(I really don't know)

 

[spinal_cord]

NES boards take up almost no space inside the casing, it would be trivial to leave most games in working order with the HDD inside

Would that not cause overheating issues?
(I really don't know)

I don't see how, but you could always add a vent or something.

 

[Another World]

projects like these are why there won't be carts to buy in another 50 years.

-another world

 

[ineap09]

projects like these are why there won't be carts to buy in another 50 years.

-another world

You want there to be carts to buy 50 years from now?

 

[Mrnoodlehead]

Do they ship to Australia?

 

[cwstjdenobs]

projects like these are why there won't be carts to buy in another 50 years.

-another world

You want there to be carts to buy 50 years from now?

A lot of people yes. It wouldn't surprise me if my NES still works then, it would be nice to still have games to play on it, show off to the grandkids how bad life used to be before neural implants...

 

[indask8]

Does the game still work? Looks like he has to remove it...

Because most of Nes game's pcb does not take the entire space inside the cartridge... I'm pretty sure there is some room for a 2.5' drive inside very simple games like Mario bros 1.

I'm almost sure you can add a flash drive even inside big games like Castlevania 3.