Mike’s mini NES doesn’t actually play games off the cartridges, there isn’t any data stored on them. For those who prefer the homemade touch, however, tech blogger DaftMike has put together his own mini NES console which is 40% the size of the original and which adds some nifty features not present on the official Nintendo re-release.
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For no good reason, daftmike also created a 40-percent-sized NES classic game controller which is too small to really be usable.
This November Nintendo will ship the NES Classic Edition. In fact, the Mini-NES this fan created (using 3D printing) is actually more advanced than the one Nintendo is selling. In the video below, Daft Mike explains how he created this ingenious little console. As per the publication, the console fits into gamers’ palms, allowing them to easy manipulate the controls when they play the 30 pre-installed Nintendo games, such as “Donkey Kong”, “Super Mario Bros”.
Like Nintendo’s upcoming system, daftmike’s Raspberry Pi creation is also tiny. Since he’s running RetroPie emulators off of a Raspberry Pi, he’s also able to make cartridges for games that never launched on the original NES system like Pokémon Red and Blue. The box itself was designed using Autodesk’s 123D Design, and 3D printed using monotone filaments from Faberdashery. It has an HDMI port so it can connect easily to newer TVs, and comes with a brand new NES controller – manufactured for the first time in more than 20 years.
While it is assumed that the aforementioned titles in “Playing With Power” are joined by other classic titles, it is revealed that the these titles are not included in the official description of the NES Classic, as per IGN.
“This project took longer that I first thought, but I enjoyed it immensely”, Mike writes.
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“In the end, this project turned into more of a love-letter to the NES than just printing a case”.
