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Does anyone have any suggestions about where to begin going about creating a PC that's dedicated for emulator gaming playback? I was thinking of using a Micro ATX motherboard and building an oversize SNES case with USB controllers... Anyone know where I go to get the kits to create USB SNES controllers?

And any suggestions on case design...

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Does anyone have any suggestions about where to begin going about creating a PC that's dedicated for emulator gaming playback? I was thinking of using a Micro ATX motherboard and building an oversize SNES case with USB controllers... Anyone know where I go to get the kits to create USB SNES controllers?

And any suggestions on case design...

A little pricey, but kits can be found here:

http://retrousb.com/index.php?categoryID=81

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Does anyone have any suggestions about where to begin going about creating a PC that's dedicated for emulator gaming playback? I was thinking of using a Micro ATX motherboard and building an oversize SNES case with USB controllers... Anyone know where I go to get the kits to create USB SNES controllers?

And any suggestions on case design...

Why don't you just softmod an XBOX and build a new Super Nintendo looking case for it?

If not best idea is to try pic one of those old Pentium 4 jobbies you see going for next to nothing on car boot sales nowadays and pop in a GB of RAM and a cheapo (£30 - 50) graphics card 'Radeon 1300XT' or similar would be fine.

I regularly run any SNES/Megadrive/Amiga game on my old PC, even though I'm currently running a AMD 64X2 with 2GB RAM and 1900XT.

It's just so much fun, also get a wired XBOX 360 pad, they work awesome for emulated games!

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Does anyone have any suggestions about where to begin going about creating a PC that's dedicated for emulator gaming playback? I was thinking of using a Micro ATX motherboard and building an oversize SNES case with USB controllers... Anyone know where I go to get the kits to create USB SNES controllers?

And any suggestions on case design...

I made a full arcade machine also known as a mame machine

http://www.natesalerno.com/arcade.html

for yours you can use mamewah a frontend program to manage your emulators and games. A nice little touch is to make it so the frontend starts up, when the PC starts up. So anyone that isn't great with a computer can pick it up and play.

Gravis makes some nice USB game controllers. I like the ones that look like old Playstation\SNES controllers

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