Years ago, when i was in high school, I found plans online to gut an old NES and convert it into a mini-pc. My friend had a broken NES, but when I made the mistake of telling him what I wanted it for, he changed his mind and made the NES-computer for himself. I vowed to take a playstation (the original one) and turn it into a PC just to one up him, but back then components were too big for the build.
I have an old broken original playstation, and everytime I find it in the bottom of my closet I can't bring myself to throw it out, because I still want to build this PC, but lack the skills to do it justice. The most important part to me is to keep the playstation looking like a playstation, which means using the top-loading disk reader as a DVD drive, and either using the controller ports to plug in a wired mouse and keyboard, or using the original controllers as USB controls for the PC.
My current version of the PS-PC involve using it as a media center attached to my TV, so it would need a good DVD drive, if not BluRay (which I think doesn't come in an affordable top-loading version), high quality video output (preferably HDMI), and enough juice to be able to stream video from another computer on the network or off the internet.
I'm a relative amateur at modding things, so thanks for any advice you have on the build.
