Fan Made NES Cartridge HDD

Our friends at nesprojects have posted an interesting article that gives step by step instructions on how to take a gold NES Legend of Zelda cartridge and make a portable external hard drive out of it. Included are pics for each step and even lists what parts you would require. The entire article is actually a re-posting of an older one from de-frag a few years earlier. Fortunately the modification does not require any soldering at all. The only requirements are some careful cutting and reassembling. With just a few steps anyone can have their very own custom Legend of Zelda external HDD to show off. Jump inside to check out a few pics for yourself.

The first thing that you need to do, is get a NES cartridge. If you dont have one, used video game stores usually still have a few. I had two copies of Zelda, so I chose to use that one.

Next, you need a laptop drive of some sort. I started this with an OLD ~1000 RPM laptop drive. I swear I could piss bits faster than this thing could read/write. BUT it worked.

And then you need to get a hold of a USB/drive converter appropriate to the drive you are using. I got mine from geeks.com. It came with this steel black enclosure that my old drive didnt even fit in, which is why I did this.

Lastly, source a bit to open the cartridge. Its an 8mm nintendo bit. I got mine from playasia.com. From there, you need to pull the three screws in the back. Sometimes, there is only two, or there might be four. It all depends on the cartridge you use. If you pick the right cartridge, you wont even need the bit.

 

You can view the complete instructions here

This looks pretty cool. There are a lot of various fan made mods of original NES items all over the internet but I love seeing things like this. I even have one of these cartridges lying around, I might just try this myself. It looks simple enough. The entire project consists of essentially placing a laptop HDD into the small NES cartridge and then having everything fit together well. Although I would definitely have to use something newer than the one they used. I’m sure just a few minutes of looking over Tiger Direct I could find plenty of things that could work in it’s place.

So what do you think? Did you like the mod? Are you going to try this yourself in the future? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: de-frag

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