CockPitStorage@2chGTForce(&Pro)Thread [FTフォース via はちま起稿]

The shell of the droid is a modified, improved version of one of those R2-D2 coolers. But the inside consists of a projector (with video coming out of the correct “help me Obi-Wan Kenobi” hole), along with eight video game consoles. Eight. The pic is a blurry, but we can make out Dreamcast, N64, SNES, PlayStation, Genesis, NES and… yeah, maybe an Xbox and an old Atari as well.

Custom R2-D2 Video Game Console [TheForce & Popular Science, via Gizmodo AU]

You’re going to need plenty of cardboard, foam and a working drill—yes, that Big Daddy drill spins—plus you’re going to need to start, well, right about now. Krix’s D.I.Y. Big Daddy took him a good seven weeks to build, but that includes things like built-in fans, the aforementioned spinning drill arm and a serious attention to detail.

I imagine you could probably knock out something in six weeks, six and a half, tops, using his method.

Big Daddy (BioShock) [Volpin Props via Make]

Redneck Techie, the adorable nutjob who cobbled together motion controls, an LCD screen, and a rifle butt into the “Game Gun,” has news for you. He says it’ll be retailing by Christmas, and it’ll be compatible with all consoles.

Watch him show off the gun again – this looks like a different prototype, with a smaller gun. “Full tracking, all the way around, and you can whip some arse,” he boasts. “Or you die.” This one looks like a wireless configuration. He says it’s compatible with 360, Wii, and PS3, in addition to PC gaming.

Redneck Techie says you may order it here, but I don’t see any order form, price, warranty, specs, anything. Caveat emptor, of course.

And what the hell is going on at 1:12? Is he baked?

Game Gun Going to be Ready for Retail by Christmas, will be Console Compatible [Engadget, thanks Abdul-Elah]

Previously, you needed a copy of Twilight Princess to get this working, but with a recent system update, Nintendo closed that loophole. Not to worry. A new one has come along!

Lifehacker have a handy guide up showing you how to install the Homebrew Channel using this new exploit, and reckon from start to finish it should take you around 10 minutes. All you’ll need are a Wii, an SD card formatted to FAT, a copy of a file called bannerbomb and the HackMii installer.

It doesn’t look too complicated (there’s even pictures!), but if you’re a total novice&mdashlor the kind of person who truly values their Wii’s warranty—you may want to give it a miss.

Those wondering what the Homebrew Channel actually does, well, it’ll let you do things like:

- play homebrew games
- backup all your Wii games to a HDD
- play games via emulator
- play backup copies of a game without the need for a modchip

Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess [Lifehacker]

The SNES Portable sports a 2.5-inch screen, and according to darthchris13, the tricky part was getting all the SNES wiring into such a small casing. Nice work.

Une magnifique Nintendo SNES Portable et son emballage [Nowhere Else]

Modder Pocket Lucho is a mini-arcade cabinet modding genius. For the last five months, he’s been fine tuning his small-sized Neo Geo cabinet design.

In the above clip, Lucho shows the fruits of his labour.

*applause*

Elotrolado via YouTube via Hack A Day via Gizmodo]

As anyone who’s ever tangled with an RF switcher knows, hooking up consoles in the old days was more plug and less play.

Helpfully the gang at Shamoozal have put together this step-by-step look at rigging up your Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s done in the style of the old Disney explainers with Goofy as the hapless, frustrated and frequently maimed subject. And it’s funny because, while caricatured to the extreme, we’ve all done everything depicted in it. Well, maybe not the shoe thing.

How to Hook Up the NES [Shamoozal, thanks Nate D.]

Being a patriot, he eschews Japanese components in favour of American HAPP parts (though you can ask for Seimetsu/Sanwa parts if you’re picky), and there are two variants available, a Ryu and an Akuma.

The sticks are for the 360, and include a rechargeable pack that can be juiced from your console’s USB port. And finally, for that extra touch of old-school authenticity, he’s measured the exact dimensions of the button layout from the old SFII arcade cabinets and replicated them on the surface of these sticks.

Being hand-made, they’re not cheap, with both going for $US190. But hey, for a hand-made, wireless controller, that’s not too bad.

Mekishiko916 @ Etsy [Etsy, via technabob]