It's never nice to see a games console finally bite the dust, never to play another game or take centre stage underneath the TV again, but some talented folk save the day by repurposing the poor little things for future use.
Take the talented Joe Heaton, for example, who we've previously featured on the site for transforming broken Nintendo DS consoles into gorgeous Game Boy Advance systems. Or indeed the star of today's article, Reddit user IMOKRUOK, who's managed to salvage a broken NES by turning it into a fully functioning docking station for a Nintendo Switch.
IMOKRUOK says that they bought a broken NES from a local seller page, stripping out the insides in case they could be used to service their own NES in the future, and reusing its shell to form the casing of this new Switch dock.
You can see the process of the new Switch dock being built here; new internal pieces had to be laser cut and the whole thing fits very snuggly indeed, with the edges of the plastic rounded to avoid any screen scratches.
Not a bad idea, huh? Now you know what to do if your old consoles suffer a similar fate!
[source reddit.com, via htxt.co.za]
Comments (41)
Lol, looks so corny, but mad respect for helping the environment.
Neat! Now make one where you shove the entire Switch into the front slot like it's a cartridge.
Cool way to keep a dead console alive and a nice piece if you want a spare dock and for it to look like something a little more cool.
That said when the Switch is in it, it looks like some nuclear accident melted the two together!
Good work by the creator.
Ha Slay the Spire, man knows what's good.
Yes, I second that. Slide it in like a cartridge would be 10 times more awesome.
Looks like a modern toaster, and the bread is burned.
You know what they say: all toasters toast toast!
Fan: Transforms broken NES into fully functioning Switch dock.
Nintendo: Transforms a fully functioing free online service into Switch’s paid online service full of NES games.
Yo Dawg,
I heard you like Nintendo so we put your Nintendo in a Nintendo so you can play your Nintendo while it's docked in a Nintendo.
@Kienda And SNES. Amazing games with awesome online play. Plus super cheap.
More like a "how to scratch your Switch screen"
No sir, I don’t like it
This would have been so much cool with an dead SNES and top load....
It's a shame the dock doesn't take it back to the SNES loading times, that would have been nice.
@mesome713 can you ever say anything positive?
@PickledKong64 wasn't that kinda positive? Or sarcasm?
@mesome713 yeah, the SNES games are the more enjoyable games for me, but for the purposes of my headline word play I just mentioned NES.
It was only intended as a friendly poke at Nintendo.
I would pay for this for sure.
Why wasn’t he playing NES online?
He missed his shot.
Cool device though, well done.
"Why are you blowing on my dock?"
nice. now to make that unused slot into use. maybe it could add USB ports to the switch. or maybe mod the old system even more and have it so that the open slot could contain an Ethernet port and a USB port or two. no more will we have to unplug one device to use another device with the switch and no more having to use a USB hub with the system to allow us to connect multiple devices to the system.
Neat in theory, I'm not sold on the look though. Maybe a top loader would look a little better.
@mesome713 But they're a hacker, remember? They violated the law, and deserve to go to jail, yes? That's what you said should happen when people disrespect the creativity of Nintendo. What about the poor folks that designed the original Switch Dock?
@Bart_T exactly what I was gonna say. Rigging the usb c connector to spring into position either with the power button or even more ridiculously by pushing the cartridge slot down with the switch in it. There’s should be enough room in there to do it with a bare switch minus the joycons.
Disregarding all that though you guys missed an opportunity on the headline. “Modder Creates World’s Most Advanced NES Top-loader“
And for the sub heading “With HDMI and Support for Up to 8 Wireless Controllers”
@HobbitGamer It’s different, it’s personal use and affecting no one.
I'd much rather he repaired the NES, or just gave it to someone else who might want to repair it, instead of making there be one less original NES system in the world. There's only a finite amount of these consoles left in the wild and they won't last forever, so I don't like to see people basically ruining the remaining units like this.
Props to the effort but it seems like it would still scratch the screen,
Hmm... surely it’ll overheat without proper ventilation...?
Everybody gangsta till the guy mistakes his toaster for his NES Switch Dock
But seriously this is freakin genius
@HobbitGamer BEST FAMOUS QUOTES:
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking." -Steve Jobs
And finally...
"cheaters are the scum of the Earth, Nintendo should sue them" - mesome713
@mesome713 ah yes, it is personal use and not affecting anyone. You are right! You know what else is for personal use and not affecting anyone else? TIME TRAVELING IN ACNH.
@impurekind this person repurposed a broken system, please stop being a baby. Plus, you can buy an NES Mini... OR buy NSO... OR use Virtual Console... OR an emulator... you get the point.
@RPGamer Yet it’s not. Time travel messes with the games economy.
@mesome713 oh no, so sad. You have a choice of whether or not to time travel. If people want to do it to get more money, that's fine.
@RPGamer Yes, let’s not care who suffers.
@mesome713 ...who suffers
So cool that people are able to repurpose broken and worn out systems like this.
@RPGamer It's still a waste of a system as far as I'm concerned.
@impurekind yes, it is a complete waste of a system if it is broken and you repurpose it by making it into something creative AND FUNCTIONAL. Seriously dude, where would you ever repair it right now anyway? Apparently there’s some kind of VIRUS going around.
@RPGamer There's plenty of people out there who could have taken this and returned it to perfect working form. It's a waste of a historically important and classic gaming system that's becoming more and more scarce every year.
@mesome713 no response, huh?
@RPGamer Trust that instinct because it will get you far--or maybe not.
@impurekind uh what
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