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DIY Nintendo Controller for iPod

Old School Nintendo Controller for iPod

Sure the Wiimote's motion-detection wizardry is all the rage these days, but for some gamers, that childhood love affair with the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller never ended. Yesterday brought news of a touch version of the NES gamepad being hacked onto the iPhone to play such classics as 'Super Mario Bros.'

Now, a super geek has cracked open one of the old controllers and rewired it to control his iPod. His work, along with a how-to, is on display at the Instructables Web site, a place dedicated to DIY projects for hacking almost anything you can imagine.

You may want to keep your eye on that Instructables page. Down in the comments, a fellow Instructables solder monkey suggests building the ultimate iPod dock out of an old NES console where you'd push the iPod down into the cartridge slot and control it with the gamepad.

Holy Luigi, do we want one of those ...

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