@Alex_Mexico: You're not the only one. It took me a good 2 minute stare and an actual read of the post title to clock it was an iPod touch and not a Mega drive cartridge. *lol*
@Knoxximus ver. 5.66: i concur. took no effort to do that "mod" and frankly its a waste of space considering you're only charging one item. Normal docks are about 5-6 inches wide, this one is about 4 times the size of the thing it's charging!
But whatever, he did it for the lulz, just like that mac mini toilet paper dispenser "modder."
At first I thought somebody failed hard at putting in the cartridge, then I realized I have found the only thing I have saw that I liked for a iPod ever. EVER.
Epic Fail?
seriously this mod consist of gaffer tape USB cable inside, slide ipod in cart slot'
Oh and he's just gonna toss it out anyway.
Really if your gonan do a mod like this, with a whole console to play with you could do much more. Jam in a stereo and have some sound from the iPod. Or put in a nettop, stick on some emulators like they do with NES shells., and there'd still be room for your iPod up top. (no disc drive space though)
Just putting in a cable and sliding in the iPod is just lame.
I could do that with a left over tissue box. But I can't turn my tissue box into something much more useful than that.
@deanbmmv: Yeah, that's why I said this was "kit bashed." Scraping out the guts and hiding a standard USB sync-cable is a little cheap. But the visual is interesting.
@Owen Good: I looked up kit bashed. The wikipedia entry implies tweaking things like toy trains, figurines etc to look different. i.e there's that guy Kotaku have covered a few times who takes stuff like Action man doll n makes it into say...Chris Redfield.
This is a guy just opened up a console, took circuit board out ( I think, his pic's jump from snaps of circuit board to the above pic) then plonked in a ipod, cos he can.
Thing is that takes no skill at all. It's kinda a shame to see stuff like a Genesis(Mega Drive, thank you very much :P) go to waste on pointless iPod dock. You can turn a paperclip into a iPod stand, but this could be so much more. Heck if he bothered to work with it and make it worthwhile he wouldn't be contemplating chucking it back in the tip.
(there may also be latent rage at gizmodos coverage of any dock ever brought into existence, including that horror on the eyes that was the dreamcast controller 'dock')
Actually why do people like destroying sega consoles for ipod docks when they turn NES n PSones into PCs?
@Friedhamster: I have never, in my life, felt such a furious rage for a person I have never met before.
What I feel right now, is a rage, so great, that I can almost call it a passion.
I do not care if you are a troll, or if your "doing it for teh lulz" or something, right now, the only thing that could make my life any better is to see you dead.
@Strife Fox †:
@Arthur-Otaku:
@Kirbysuperstar:
@(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!:
@Tremolo-mayan:
It's like I stepped on a little boy's ant farm, or stabbed his puppy.
Guys, what the Genesis did something has done better.
"Cool" is too hard to define. Is playing a Genesis now cool? Maybe to some, to you, but to all? I don't think so. An iPhone is far "cooler" to that 13 year old girl than a system her older brother talks about (but plays his Xbox 360.)
You can't just say something is, without a doubt, the best. I should die? Give me a break. I said the topic was, and is, up for debate. Let's talk then, but saying you hate me? That I should cease to live? Grow up.
@Friedhamster:
Because
1. I'm a Genesis fanboy.
2. Nintendo sucks, Sega does what Nintendon't.
3. I don't really hate you, even though I do think that notion is absurd.
4. It was a joke. I purposely exaggerated something I was going to say to make a point with humor. #speakup
i loved genesis....it had so many incredible games
i still feel like the genesis/snes era may have had the highest amount of high quality games, but it's hard to remember exactly and compare to now.
but yea....we need more fun platformers nowadays. streets of rage, golden axe, sunset riders, altered beast, earthworm jim, splatterhouse, thats just off the top of my head but damn there were some greats. and phantasy star and shining force still some of the best rpgs ever
@optimusp: Hey there, do you even own a 360 to be claiming to know that it would not last long ? I honestly don't think so. Therefor.. ....shut the fuck up.
@I Am Error: I owned a 360 and it didn't last for 10 months, fixed it, it lasted 3 months. So I guess the guy above KNOWS what he is talking about... unfortunately the 360 is a fragile console and this isn't flamebait nor fanboyism, it is the truth.
@optimusp: I don't expect any disc based system to be viable 20 years down the road. There's just too many moving parts for them to be as reliable as cartridge based hardware. While slower drive systems such as the TG-16-CD may have a prolonged life compared to the speedier Dreamcasts and PS2s out there, they'll fall apart eventually.
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A few seconds passed and then I realized what an awesome thing I was witnessing.
Truly awesome.
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But whatever, he did it for the lulz, just like that mac mini toilet paper dispenser "modder."
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Genesis: Side Playin'
11/25/09
seriously this mod consist of gaffer tape USB cable inside, slide ipod in cart slot'
Oh and he's just gonna toss it out anyway.
Really if your gonan do a mod like this, with a whole console to play with you could do much more. Jam in a stereo and have some sound from the iPod. Or put in a nettop, stick on some emulators like they do with NES shells., and there'd still be room for your iPod up top. (no disc drive space though)
Just putting in a cable and sliding in the iPod is just lame.
I could do that with a left over tissue box. But I can't turn my tissue box into something much more useful than that.
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11/25/09
This is a guy just opened up a console, took circuit board out ( I think, his pic's jump from snaps of circuit board to the above pic) then plonked in a ipod, cos he can.
Thing is that takes no skill at all. It's kinda a shame to see stuff like a Genesis(Mega Drive, thank you very much :P) go to waste on pointless iPod dock. You can turn a paperclip into a iPod stand, but this could be so much more. Heck if he bothered to work with it and make it worthwhile he wouldn't be contemplating chucking it back in the tip.
(there may also be latent rage at gizmodos coverage of any dock ever brought into existence, including that horror on the eyes that was the dreamcast controller 'dock')
Actually why do people like destroying sega consoles for ipod docks when they turn NES n PSones into PCs?
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Debate won.
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11/25/09
What I feel right now, is a rage, so great, that I can almost call it a passion.
I do not care if you are a troll, or if your "doing it for teh lulz" or something, right now, the only thing that could make my life any better is to see you dead.
You deserve to die.
11/25/09
@Arthur-Otaku:
@Kirbysuperstar:
@(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!:
@Tremolo-mayan:
It's like I stepped on a little boy's ant farm, or stabbed his puppy.
Guys, what the Genesis did something has done better.
"Cool" is too hard to define. Is playing a Genesis now cool? Maybe to some, to you, but to all? I don't think so. An iPhone is far "cooler" to that 13 year old girl than a system her older brother talks about (but plays his Xbox 360.)
You can't just say something is, without a doubt, the best. I should die? Give me a break. I said the topic was, and is, up for debate. Let's talk then, but saying you hate me? That I should cease to live? Grow up.
#tips
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[www.google.co.uk]
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#tips
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Because
1. I'm a Genesis fanboy.
2. Nintendo sucks, Sega does what Nintendon't.
3. I don't really hate you, even though I do think that notion is absurd.
4. It was a joke. I purposely exaggerated something I was going to say to make a point with humor.
#speakup
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#tips
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#tips
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@Surfninja:
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@deanbmmv: Upon closer inspection, these are loafers
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08/14/09
i still feel like the genesis/snes era may have had the highest amount of high quality games, but it's hard to remember exactly and compare to now.
but yea....we need more fun platformers nowadays. streets of rage, golden axe, sunset riders, altered beast, earthworm jim, splatterhouse, thats just off the top of my head but damn there were some greats. and phantasy star and shining force still some of the best rpgs ever
08/14/09
Remember The Immortal? One of the best games ever as well! LOVED IT!
08/14/09
@EnigmaNemesis:
08/14/09
I LOVED my Genesis. I remember my mother rented it for me with Altered Beast one weekend for my birthday, because we were too poor to get one.
By that X-mas, she worked her butt off to get me one, with Sonic!!!
I loved it!
08/14/09
Was that really necessary? This is a celebration of the Genesis. Taking a shot at Sonic is just petty and unprofessional.
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