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02. Oct 2006 at 22:09

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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parpunk Senior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 286 Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #1 - 02. Oct 2006 at 22:39 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?
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Reply #2 - 02. Oct 2006 at 23:27

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 Grin

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Speedy_NES God Member Offline Posts: 979 Belgium Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #3 - 02. Oct 2006 at 23:37 Looks awesome man!! I agree with Dain, you need to make a oversized NES cartridge!!!
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dangevin Full Member Offline Nibbly Pibbly Posts: 135 Pottstown, PA Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #4 - 03. Oct 2006 at 00:12 parpunk wrote on 02. Oct 2006 at 22:39: what do you put in there??? It's full of SMB/DH.
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NationalGameDepot God Member Offline The NGD Game List v3.0 is DONE!! Posts: 3976 Knoxville, TN USA Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #5 - 03. Oct 2006 at 00:27 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. ~~NGD
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Memblers God Member Offline ... Posts: 703 Indiana Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #6 - 03. Oct 2006 at 01:49 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.
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Reply #7 - 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. 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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p_b Forum Newbie Offline NESWORLD KICKS ASS! Posts: 1	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #8 - 03. Oct 2006 at 08:23 How long until you have the red blinking light problem?
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NationalGameDepot God Member Offline The NGD Game List v3.0 is DONE!! Posts: 3976 Knoxville, TN USA Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #9 - 03. Oct 2006 at 13:37 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. ~~NGD
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Reply #10 - 03. Oct 2006 at 18:13

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.

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NationalGameDepot God Member Offline The NGD Game List v3.0 is DONE!! Posts: 3976 Knoxville, TN USA Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #11 - 04. Oct 2006 at 04:11 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. ~~NGD
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Nistle Senior Member Offline Posts: 393 Sanford, NC Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #12 - 04. Oct 2006 at 05:07 i think this should definately be in nintendo power. have you wrote them yet?
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NationalGameDepot God Member Offline The NGD Game List v3.0 is DONE!! Posts: 3976 Knoxville, TN USA Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #13 - 04. Oct 2006 at 13:30 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. ~~NGD
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ThaDuke Junior Member Offline Tanooki Suit Dookie! Posts: 90 Florence, AL Gender:	Re: 8ft Nintendo NES Reply #14 - 10. Oct 2006 at 05:55 That's dedication! ..and lots of spare time..
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