I am sure that several of you have already seen this, but I thought I would post it for all those who haven't yet.  I built a 7 ft long, 3 ft wide and 3 ft high NES.  It it completely in scale to a NES and even has a working power button that makes a red light come on.  There is a progression of images on my website if you want to check it out.  I still have to find a way to get all the logos on it, plus some minor touch up painting.  Thoughts??
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Sign my guestbook while you are there please!
www.nationalgamedepot.zoomshare.com

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a256/nationgamesdepot/100_2299.jpg

lol haha holy crap that is awesome. and no i haveent seen it yet. what do you put in there??? man that is really cool though. is the blue stuff tape?? good work man. i bet the black bars on the right was a pin to make?

The blue stuff is painters tape.  I have since removed it cause I finished all the major painting.  I just have small touch up stuff left.  The ports and the air vents on the top were the hardest things to make, but I think it was well worth the trouble.

It will be used as my entertainment center and be home to all my consoles on the side of it.

I have plans to build a Controller coffee table, and maybe a ROB chair.  Dain is trying to talk me into making a giant cart to go inside the NES....I am thinking about it ;D
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Looks awesome man!!  I agree with Dain, you need to make a oversized NES cartridge!!! ;)

parpunk wrote on 02. Oct 2006 at 22:39:

what do you put in there???

It's full of SMB/DH.  ::)

Well I have exceded my daily bandwidth allowance on my free site :-/ I know there has been at least 300 unique users visiting my site since this time yesterday.  It was probably way more than that, cause I didn't look at the counter since early this morning.  I guess everyone will have to wait until tomorrow to see it now, lol.  
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That's great.  Now you just need to make the power/reset button work, and wire it up to a real NES inside. heheh

And hook that up to Frank's 2000" TV.

I actually thought about wiring up a NES to it.  I was going to make the ports be real ports and have the power/reset button to actually work.  The reason I didn't is because I figured the NES system wasn't designed to send a signal that far, and I figured that it wouldn't work properly.  However, you do push in the power button to make the red light come on, and push it again to make the light go off.
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How long until you have the red blinking light problem?  ;)

;D funny that you mention that, I had thought about adding a time delay kill switch which would make the NES blink like that.  I decided it was to much work, and was just happy to have a power light and working button.  
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NationalGameDepot wrote on 03. Oct 2006 at 01:55:

I actually thought about wiring up a NES to it.  I was going to make the ports be real ports and have the power/reset button to actually work.  The reason I didn't is because I figured the NES system wasn't designed to send a signal that far, and I figured that it wouldn't work properly.

How far do you need it?  I think the main problem with long cables is the signal's rise and fall times, and that doesn't matter much for a low-speed signal.  Power and reset wire could be very long, the controller could be fairly long (but I'm not sure how much exactly).  Commonly available extension cables add 6 feet or so, I'm sure it could go farther than that without problems.  Could probably add buffer or a couple transcievers for really long cable length. :)

I will think about doing it then Memblers, thanks.

My website is back working again also.  So please scoop it and and leave me some feedback.  I have also been featured on several gaming sites, and digg.com for this now.  I have links to all the articles on my website also.
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i think this should definately be in nintendo power. have you wrote them yet?

I haven't yet, but I was wanting to wait until it was totally done with logos and all.  The better it looks, the more likely I am to make the zine.  I have someone who is making me the logos for free, so YAY!!!  I had to upgrade the site to handle all the traffic.
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That's dedication!

..and lots of spare time.. ;D

Memblers wrote on 03. Oct 2006 at 18:13:

How far do you need it?  I think the main problem with long cables is the signal's rise and fall times, and that doesn't matter much for a low-speed signal.  Power and reset wire could be very long, the controller could be fairly long (but I'm not sure how much exactly).  Commonly available extension cables add 6 feet or so, I'm sure it could go farther than that without problems.  Could probably add buffer or a couple transcievers for really long cable length. :)

Hey NGD, the chest in itself is amazing, but the thought of a working supersize cart and controller that to go with it would be craptacular...

Didn't somebody make a hugemongus working gameboy?  I wonder how he made his buttons and stuff..

But yeah, that it so awesome NGD!  

Thanks ;)

I could make the NES a working NES fairly easily, but it would have to use regular sized carts, no way a big ass cart would actually work.  I have thought about making a big ass cart also, time will tell on that.

I also have a 7ft tall Gameboy, but it is just a display also.  It does have a 32" working TV in it though.  I thought about hooking up a SNES to it, putting in the super gameboy cart, and then I could play any Gameboy game on it that way.
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That reminds me, the huge NES would go great with this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/30/eightfoot_nes_contro.html

Yep :) That was featured on G4TV.  They actual creator of that, Randolph, contacted me in fact.  He saw my NES somewhere and sent me a IM on AIM.  Nice guy and he gave me a few pointers about building my control, even offered to help me a little.  
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dude, that is prety impressive - I had seen the pics you have of it when it was being built a while back! Great job!