The SnesBox!

lol, was beetje aant site–chekke vind ik opeens dit,

One of my mates has just finished an Electrical and Computer Engineering course, and as such has been making quite a few project systems in his spare time. One of these systems is the SnesBox, a windows XP installation with an 80GB HDD with every NES, SNES, and Sega Mega drive rom ever made stored on it (nothing too new though to avoid legality problems). The system is encased in an original Super Nintendo case, complete with two authentic controllers, and has the power controlled by the actual power switch on the snes box. This means that from the outside the entire box acts like a normal super Nintendo system, even having a Mario XP boot screen when you start it up . Since the box is running on a PC motherboard (a mini-atx), there is a USB keyboard and mouse hooked up to it as well. This means that it can also be used to chat over the internet. He has recently tried to get N64 roms working, but this has two problems: There is something that is causing MASSIVE slowdown with a lot of the roms, which could be attributed to the video card. Also, they are still pretty new games, so a lot of people don’t like the idea of these roms being downloaded.

[img]http://members.gamedev.net/boolean/images2/snesboxrear.JPG[/img]

[img]http://members.gamedev.net/boolean/images2/snesboxinside.JPG[/img]

[img]http://members.gamedev.net/boolean/images2/snes25mm.JPG[/img]

[img]http://members.gamedev.net/boolean/images2/TOPFAN30MM.JPG[/img]

SPECS:

Hardware:

Motherboard: EPIA M10000 Nehemiah

RAM: 512DDR Kingmax

HD: 40GB Hitachi 2.5″

Power Supply: 60 Watt Morex

Case: Modified Super Nintendo PAL version

Specs:

Clock speed: 1Ghz

Bus speed: 266MHz

Features:

– Full use of front gameports via printer port interface

– Functional power button and reset switch

– Original power LED utilized

– True to original snes look – no mods to front or top

Cooling:

– Top section: 30mm brushless fan(rear)

– CPU: 40mm stock brushless fan

– Power Supply and Hard disk: 25mm brushless fan(under motherboard)

Power Consumption:

– Standby: 4W

– Idle: 28W

– DivX: 35W (tested with a 112kbps DivX @ 320×240 running on VLC media player)

– SNES emu: 41W (tested with ZSNES v1.42 running `FZERO’ @ 640×480 Full Screen + 2xSAI engine)

Capability:

– Perfect playback of high quality DivX(no artifacts nor pausing)

– Perfect SNES and Megadrive(Genesis) emulation with full 2xSAI rendering (and all 8-bit consoles)

Applications:

– Media box

– Emulation station

– Internet

– Desktop publishing

In total the system came to around AU$500. The Snesbox works great, and I have had a hell of a lot of fun playing old snes roms against friends all over again.

All in all, it kicks mofo ass. From what I can tell, this is better than any of the other SnesBox systems out there, since it handles heat a lot better, uses all the existing buttons on the case for power and control, and still has the cartridge protector slot in working order (animalsnes is missing one).

//Edit: The system has actually been upgraded with a new mobo, fan and RAM since these photos were taken

By : boolean

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