this is Caleb with hackaday and today we
have the great honor of having Ryan
Fitzpatrick also known as platinum fungi
in the workshop with us hey guys
and he created this stunning
modification of an NES with with Megaman
on it it's a homemade oh man themed NES
I just saw it on the internet yesterday
I had to get him in here for an
interview and so let's just jump to
looking at how beautiful this thing is
before we even start to talk
so Ryan yeah tell us a little bit about
this I mean it's just it's just
beautiful how did how did you make it I
mean is that laser-cut on the top there
or what no a lot of people think that I
used lasers or some type of you know
very easy but a professional cutting
machine and I took the exact opposite
path I took the very long laborious
everything's done by hand the design the
outer edge that entire thing was cut
with a dremel and then all of the edges
were filed and sanded all by hand and it
definitely took forever a laser cutter
would've been a lot faster but I wanted
to do everything by hand you know I
really wanted to try to make a tribute
piece and art piece to Megaman to the
anniversary that I actually created very
nice very nice and what features have
you added I know there's more than just
the Megaman on top and the color so tell
us a little bit about all the stuff that
you've done to this sure okay yeah
obviously the character on the top
backlit the cartridge door has special
decals that I made to celebrate the 25th
anniversary in the Megaman games when
you would pause the game it would show I
think it was in Mega Man 1 it would show
his head and then it would show right
next to that the number of extra lives
he had and so this is you know just kind
of a little play off that the power led
has been changed from red to blue to
match the color scheme of course and on
the on the side in the back i actually
made custom AV port decals since the
original colors would have looked really
bad with this you know nice blue and
everything so those are now color
matched as well and finally the awesome
paint job
i hired my good buddy custom nes guy
he's really big on youtube and he's on
facebook etc and he used automotive
paints and clear coat and just painted
the thing exactly how I asked him it's
hard to tell but all of the edges even
have a slight black outline to really
kind of help the colors pop and you know
look just fit the look so oh well that's
that's very nice it's kind of hard to
describe just how
perfect this finishes and how straight
these lines are you'll have to see in
the photos it looks really really great
now this isn't your first one and I'm
sure this isn't your last what about
playing now yeah I definitely learned a
lot on this one I've done a couple
before this that were much more
simplistic this was the first one where
pixel per pixel I tried to recreate the
original character art and so as I said
I learned a lot and I really want to
continue to celebrate the 25th
anniversary Mega Man this year since
Capcom is doing it all here I'm going to
as well and so I don't want to divulge
too much information but maybe you'll
see some other Mega Man characters
getting their own custom NES systems and
maybe we'll see some of the items from
the Megaman games oh very nice now
everybody's been asking you on the on
the threads on the internet and stuff
but do you take commissions for pieces
like this yes I do I'm always interested
in doing commissions and something like
this is definitely it takes a lot of
time a lot of effort so please bear that
in mind you know yeah you can't move
this in a day but yeah I'm always
interested in taking Commission it is
one of a kind so tell me this where can
people find you you know to look at more
of your work or to possibly Commission
you to do something where were they sure
where would they find you my web site
first and foremost which is platinum
fungi calm and I'm also on Facebook
YouTube Twitter and just a lot of other
sites actually in gaming forums
basically just type in platinum fungi on
a Google search and you'll find me
everywhere so great perfect perfect well
Ryan thanks for coming in thanks for
letting me geek out a little bit playing
with this thing Megaman is one of my
personal favorites from the minute to
know that and the original Metroid which
is the best game ever created so anyway
thank you for coming in and let me play
with it yeah any job gala was a pleasure
hope you guys enjoy
you
so Ryan have you seen the Thor's hammer
that I made yet no what's up all right
check this out whoa yeah