Shrygue
August 29th, 2008, 20:59
via Gizmodo US (http://gizmodo.com/5043619/four+foot-snes-controller-actually-works-for-shaquille-oneal)
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Taking inspiration as well as construction cues from the massive NES controller table built in May, SCAD Inc., which I will charitably call a garage-based novelty enlargement collective, set out to build a giant-sized SNES controller, complete with functioning buttons. A few months later the build is complete, and it looks, well, huge.
The angular, simply-shaped NES controller lent itself well to humongonization, but the rounded sides and shoulder buttons made the SNES a formidable challenge to accurately build at such a large scale. The SCAD guys sure as hell pulled it off though, getting everything from the curvature of the L and R buttons to the fonts used on the control labels almost perfectly right. The body of the controller is cut from wood, and the buttons are connected directly to the guts of a standard SNES controller, preserving the now hilariously small-looking cable and connector. The builders say that videos (hopefully including some gameplay action) are forthcoming, but for now check out the full log of the building process at the SCAD Inc. site (http://scadinc.blogspot.com/).
Photographs here (http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/giantsnes)
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/08/snestop.jpg
Taking inspiration as well as construction cues from the massive NES controller table built in May, SCAD Inc., which I will charitably call a garage-based novelty enlargement collective, set out to build a giant-sized SNES controller, complete with functioning buttons. A few months later the build is complete, and it looks, well, huge.
The angular, simply-shaped NES controller lent itself well to humongonization, but the rounded sides and shoulder buttons made the SNES a formidable challenge to accurately build at such a large scale. The SCAD guys sure as hell pulled it off though, getting everything from the curvature of the L and R buttons to the fonts used on the control labels almost perfectly right. The body of the controller is cut from wood, and the buttons are connected directly to the guts of a standard SNES controller, preserving the now hilariously small-looking cable and connector. The builders say that videos (hopefully including some gameplay action) are forthcoming, but for now check out the full log of the building process at the SCAD Inc. site (http://scadinc.blogspot.com/).
Photographs here (http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/giantsnes)