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Above is Super Smash Bros. Brawl in 720p HD which is not normally possible on a Wii (Protip: Click HD on youtube video to get full effect).

Using the Dolphin Wii Emulator for PC, youtube user renebarahona shows off the mod. A couple more videos below shows off the mod’s capabilities:

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Mario Kart Wii

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles

(warning: there are some sound problems in this mod)

This interesting mod puts an SNES inside a toaster with the slots used for inserting the game. The knob is also useful for dimming the orange LED’s on the unit. Here is what vomitsaw had to say about his mod:

My first 8-bit Nintoaster got good enough feedback to convince me to cough up another, so here it is.
An SNES crammed inside of a toaster, as you might have guessed by the title. (Built from nothing more than a Super NES, a toaster, four different types of adhesives, magnets ripped from a broken hard drive, six orange LEDs, a bunch of resistors, plexiglass, and many many spare wires no less!) This time the temperature control knob on the front actually serves a purpose, and that crucial task is dimming the orange LEDs. (In the event it begins to toast your retinas in a darkened room).

Here are a couple more pictures of the mod from start to finish…

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