Modding older consoles to get more life out of them

[Grant]

Do you guys ever mod your older consoles to get new life out of them? I want to mod some of them to have HDMI instead. I know some people added it to an N64, and some other consoles. Maybe a mod chip in a Wii or PS1/PS2. There's a lot you can do with older consoles.

 

[Shortie]

If you are wanting to get more life out of older consoles that you have by modding them and even allowing them to use HDMI as well then I say go for it.

As a gamer myself, I always remember just how fun the older games on the older consoles used to be and if I was able to mod a console to be able to get more life out of it, I would without a second thought.

 

[linux.poet]

My brother modded his DS to record his DS games for YouTube. The process involved soldering and a lot of cables that had to be delicately inserted into receptors. He has a master’s degree in electrical engineering, which is where he learned how to solder and do that kind of work.

Seeing as I don’t have said degree, I would be a little nervous attempting a mod like that and would need to research soldering before going through with it.

 

[Heatman]

I have seen a lot of gamers doing this and it's very cool how they can with their tech skills input more life to old games and get more fun from them. It's a very interesting thing to do with console. It gives extra life to games. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do it and I think that it's too for me to start learning about it.