Custom SNES Give Away!

Attention MyWii members I’ve got a little treat for you here. As many of you have noticed there’s been a good stready steam of competitions that members can get involved in and low and behold here’s another one. But this one’s a little different, how so you ask? Well over time we’ve noticed that there’s a lot of people here that have a soft spot for some classic gaming, and as a Wii owner myself I absolutely adore the Virtual Console and all its true to the original classic games available for download. Which is great for bringing back those memories and the only way to top that is to play the classic games on the original system and that’s what we have up for grabs here.

What we are giving away is a complete fully functional Super Nintendo package with games and controllers! The Super Nintendo is a personal favourite of the MyMedia crew and over time we’ve covered it the best we can with a dedicated Super Nintendo Retrospective article and a Retro-Grade Podcast and now were topping it all off with a SNES give away. Although we must give credit where credit is due because this Super Nintendo has been donated by Doles284 a regular on the MyWii forums and resident MyFrag admin. Not only did he cough up the SNES he also gave it the once over by customising it “MyWii Style”, there’s a number of unique traits about this SNES that we’ll go though in detail shortly. To make sure the SNES doesn’t go unused we’ve thrown in a couple of classic games so the lucky winner can get straight into the action.

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What are you Getting?

Ok here’s the break down of what the winner will be getting:

One Customised Super Nintendo and Accessories

• 1 Customised Super Nintendo Console


• 2 Controllers


• 1 Pal Power pack


• 1 set of AV composite cables(we weren’t going to give you the old RF box and make you fine turn it all in)

Everything pictured above has been kindly donated by Doles284 and not only did he donate hardware he also invested his time into making this one off custom SNES represent MyWii with back lit logo cut out of the case and our web address in the original font.

Classic SNES Games

• 1 Copy of Mortal Kombat 3


• 1 Copy of NBA Jam

Yep this version actually has blood

An arcade classic

I fished these little beauties out of my collection, NBA Jam was a game I was obsessed with many years ago and even to this day it’s still heaps of fun to play. I hope the winner enjoys these games as much as I did.

• 1 Copy of Super Mario All Stars

Back in it’s day this was value for money all the classic 8bit Mario games in the one cart

I heard somewhere that it’s actually illegal to give away a SNES without a Mario game luckily for us Dossaer came to the rescue and donated the classic Super Mario All Stars, don’t forget this is the one that has “Lost Levels”!

Stickers

• 10 MyWii Mini Stickers

You are no doubt familiar with these stickers by now and the winner of this competition will have ten of these to stick where ever they please…PS I want to see one of these stuck to the side of a Taxi. There you have it, everything pictured above is going to one lucky winner. A custom Super Nintendo, three classic games and fist full of MyWii stickers.

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How do you win all this?

It couldn’t be easier since most of you are doing it any way, this prize pack will be given away to the one selected standout person that has been an awesome member. What exactly does awesome entail? Basically being an active member, helping out where you can by helping new members or existing members with new questions. Adding new content such as news, reviews, images, lists, cheats videos etc. You don’t need to do everything that was mention just what you have time for and if you feel like nominating someone please feel free to PM anyone of the admins on this site. Now when sending in a nomination please tell us why you think this specific member deserves this prize. Starting from now up until the 20th of March we’ll be taking nominations and keeping a close eye on what people do for the site. Good luck to everyone!

The Build

For those curious on how the custom SNES came together Doles was kind enough to take notes for us and here they are in his own words.

I've had plans for a while to do something special with one of the many SNES' I have in my collection. After a long time of doing nothing about it, I thought it would be great to make a MyWii.com.au themed SNES to donate to the site.

Instead of telling you what the end product will look like, I'll let you read each step I took in building this custom SNES...

Presenting... The MyWii Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

First I took apart the SNES to have a look around.

Here is the power LED, I will add some blue LEDs
towards the back of the SNES to light up the circuitry
in the rear of the unit, using this LED as a power source.

I wanted there to be something to look at through the window
that I'm going to put in, so I removed the RF shield from the rear of the SNES.
This was quite hard and involved removing the cartridge ejecting mechanism
from the board, lifting up the entire circuit board and unscrewing the shield from
underneath.

Here is a picture of the LEDs lit up in the dark, with the RF shield removed

I cut the logo out using a Dremel, which broke towards the end.
So a good part of this design was done with a few needle files.
I also had to cut an ugly hole in the bottom part of the top casing,
just to let the light come through.

I put on a few coats of metallic charcoal paint,
I decided to cover up the SNES logo in the top right
with masking tape to preserve its original colour.
I also painted completely over the front-most plate of the SNES.

Now, I want to cover the top and front with Glass Coat,
so I need to tape off the area where I don't want it to flow.
I want it to flow into the window, to give that warped glass window look.

Pouring the liquid glass into the front plate,
but not before I stuck the SNES logo on the front plate
and the MyWii logo on the top plate, just above the eject button.

After the Glass Coat had set for a few days, it's time to remove the tape and put it all back together!

Here it is with the lights off.

I'm very happy with how this went! Good luck to all! I'm sure it will be won by someone truly deserving!

And there you have it guys that is how it all came together, thanks Doles for taking heaps of pictures for us.

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Related SNES Information

Super Nintendo Retrospective

Hardware Add-ons from the 16bit era

The Voice Retro-Grade 1:SNES

If you are not a MyWii member just click the "MyWii" box in the top right hand corner

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Excessive heat in our computer cases can become an issue often hindering performance or causing damage to expensive components. Hot weather, over clocking and long gaming sessions can all contribute to increased temperatures. Most computer users concerned about performance will have no doubt crammed as many fans as they could into the factory provided locations. So what does one do when there’s no places left for anymore additional fans and you still want more cooling? One solution is to convert some unused 5.25” drive bays to house a 120mm fan and that’s what we’re going to show you here today. Read on to find out what products you can use for this and for a detailed guide on how to install the Cooler Master 4-in-3 Device Module

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I can has Hadoken? – Street Fighter 4 Give Away !

Do you want to immortalise your self doing the legendary Hadoken? and do you want a free copy of Street Fighter 4 for your PS3 or Xbox 360 when it’s released here in Australia? If you answered yes to both questions then we have a something just for you. So if you’re interested read on and then head over to MyPS3 or My360 (depending on which copy you would like) and get cracking.

Not everyone is familiar with the Street Fighter series and if you’re one of these people there’s no reason why you should miss out on this competition. Street Fighter 4 is will be a must have addition to anyone’s game collection plus you can have some fun entering this competition.

For those that don’t know what a Hadoken is here’s a little extract from Wikipedia: Hadouken ( 波動拳 hadōken?, "surge fist", a Japanese neologism, literally "wave motion fist") is a fictional special attack that originated in the Capcom fighting video game series Street Fighter. The character thrusts their palms forward, sending a surge of spirit energy (or ki) flying towards the opponent. It is normally performed by moving the joystick or D-pad a quarter circle forward towards the opponent from the down position, then pressing a punch button (so, for example, a character standing on the left would execute the move by pressing ↓, ↘, and then → in a smooth motion).

Here’s a quick little gameplay video of SF4

There you have it! For those that didn’t know much about the game you’re all schooled up and ready to go

How to enter

Just take a picture of your self doing the worlds most recognised videogame battle cry the “Hadoken”, upload it to an image hosting site and either embed it into your post or link us to it.
There’s no right or wrong way of doing this just grab a camera and get someone to take a picture of your self in the Hadoken pose and you have your entry right there. But to increase your chances of winning, we strongly suggest that you get creative in order stand out from all the other entries. Put some thought in your location; maybe use some props, or photo editing programs to get a unique look.
Also feel free to add a couple of sentences about how the shot was done, who helped etc etc (not mandatory though)

Here’s a few examples to give you some ideas

Below are the links to where you can submit your entry and the general rules and regulations

To try and win the 360 version of Street Fighter 4 click HERE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

To try and win the PS3 version of Street Fighter 4 click HERE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions please free to contact me and I’ll be happy to answer them for you.