The Nintendo Switch is a versatile gadget, which is part of its appeal, but you can always rely on fans to find fun ways to take it back to the 'good old days'. A talented chap from Italy called Filippo sent us some images of how he's turned his Switch into a cute little arcade cabinet, and we thought it perfect for brightening up our day.
As you can see below it's themed around Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, with the console forming the screen of a cabinet. The only 'improvement' we could think of would be for the Joy-Con to be embedded into a front shelf like real arcade sticks and buttons. Sure, it'd be obnoxious to actually control the games this way, but it sure would look cool.
It's a fun little idea, anyway, and if you really want to feel like a big-spending hotshot you can fire up some ACA Neo Geo games in a cabinet like this. It'd be more affordable than building a real Neo Geo cabinet, anyway...
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A better idea for an improvement would be to get rid of the joy cons and embed a useful controller instead.
I require a full set of instructions and a list of required tools/resources.
That's so cool, do want. Would love one of these with retro 90s artwork all over it!
Adorable!
@MarioFanatic64 Where do you live and how much you are willing to pay? I've been doing small woodcraft for my pals for years. Easy enough to make this.
@MarioFanatic64 It seems like anyone with a talent for woodwork can take it on, though figuring out dimensions and so on would be trickier I suppose - http://www.nov-art.eu/?p=1835
Time to break out my woodwork skills..............I just realized, I don't have any
Oh my goodness... !!
(Throw money at screen)
I wanna buy that !
Me and my brother often play the Switch waiting in a car and had an idea about 3D printing a mount for the dashboard and a mini-cabinet was one idea.
Awesome!
Good idea. If you still have your old iPads.
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Id buy this if it was available or probably fund a kickstarter for a reasonable price
IGN's Brian Altano mentioned (on a recent podcast) that there might/will be an accessory like this to launch in tandem with the upcoming 'Namco Museum' collection on Switch...the idea is that you could slide the Switch in vertically and play the classics in their original portrait style (much like the iPad 'arcade machines' @UK-Nintendo posted above!) ..hope that's true!
Ha, that's rather cool.
@UK-Nintendo I have an iCade. Thinking about rigging up one with my raspberry pi and using the screen from an old busted up iPad 2. Maybe time will open up.
This sure is easier though.
@NaviAndMii I'd probably buy that.
Would hope it either has charging built in, arcade controls built in or both.
@aaronsullivan Me too! ..although, I can't find any info about it at all on Google - hope Mr Altano wasn't spreading fake news!
@aaronsullivan it's a lot easier. It's definitely a small plan for the future
Just use a raspberry pie/retropie and a decent arcade stick.
thats cool would look great on a desk as well
@NaviAndMii id buy that if its true
Looks nice!
@NaviAndMii
He didn't say it was coming out, he said he hoped something like it would.
Nice work. I was just thinking about something like this earlier in the week while reading the article on the Hori fight stick. I would like to see the rest of the wall behind the mini cabinet. It looks like he's done some 8-bit art there. Seems like a talented individual.
I've got one of those arcade ipad docks. Will definately have a look at converting it. 😎
Beautiful little cabinet. But Switch deserves more. Build a full size cabinet with a Hori HRAP built in, and I'm there.
@NaviAndMii That would be neat!
Adorable
@UK-Nintendo
Have tried it? does is actually work?
@arrmixer yea. You just download the icade app
@UK-Nintendo
Awesome thank you!
Plans on how to make one out of foamboard or wood:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2235516
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