{"id":9516,"date":"2018-01-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/creator_of_the_starforce_pi_is_working_on_something_nintendo-related"},"modified":"2018-01-04T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:00:00","slug":"creator-of-the-starforce-pi-is-working-on-something-nintendo-related","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/creator-of-the-starforce-pi-is-working-on-something-nintendo-related\/","title":{"rendered":"Creator Of The Starforce Pi Is Working On Something Nintendo-Related"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Screen Shot 2018-01-04 at 13.32.05.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/creator_of_the_starforce_pi_is_working_on_something_nintendo-related\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/creator_of_the_starforce_pi_is_working_on_something_nintendo-related\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-01-04 at 13.32.05.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/11\/the_starforce_pi_is_an_arcade_you_can_fit_in_your_rucksack\">Starforce Pi<\/a> is one of the most exciting developments in the world of retro hardware, but it&#8217;s still not yet available to buy.\u00a0Marcel J. de Haan &#8211; the man behind the project &#8211; has experienced issues in finding a suitable manufacturer for mass production and has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/starforcepi.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/04\/wheres-my-starforce-pi\/\">recently declared<\/a> that he&#8217;s going to do everything in-house.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all bad news however, as de Haan has also confirmed that he&#8217;s working on a Nintendo-related project:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Besides the Starforce Pi, I am just having a little fun modding old consoles (MegaDrive, DreamCast, 6-button Genesis arcade stick, bunch of GameBoys) and I even have a very cool brand-new build in the making. Not going to tell you what it is yet, but it\u2019ll be Nintendo based.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When quizzed on Twitter, de Haan elaborated further:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oow it&#8217;s a good one, though the purists are going to dislike it, it&#8217;ll be jam-packed with portable Nintendo fun in an awesome build! Can&#8217;t tell you more just yet, I&#8217;m just collecting the components now and sketching the wiring, but I have the housing and it&#8217;ll be a doozy!<\/span>\u2014 StarForcePi (@StarForcePi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarForcePi\/status\/948882548326793216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Now for the <em>really<\/em> bad news. It&#8217;s a one-off, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/04\/the_only_problem_with_this_tabletop_neo_geo_is_that_theres_just_one_in_existence\">gorgeous tabletop Neo Geo<\/a> he created not so long ago:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;Fraid so, the case is vintage and I don&#8217;t think Nintendo will want me to hack up their gear and sell it.<\/span>\u2014 StarForcePi (@StarForcePi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarForcePi\/status\/948905057252192256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We don&#8217;t doubt that it will be utterly amazing, but knowing that we won&#8217;t be able to actually own whatever it is makes us sadder than it probably should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starforce Pi is one of the most exciting developments in the world of retro hardware, but it&#8217;s still not yet available to buy.\u00a0Marcel J. de Haan &#8211; the man behind the project &#8211; has experienced issues in finding a suitable manufacturer for mass production and has recently declared that he&#8217;s going to do everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}