ENTRY 200
(Posted 2004-11-05 02:08:02 by basscomm)

AsylumLAN [ http://www.asylumlan.com ] is having their three-year three day
anniversary party starting tomorrow evening, and crummysocks.com will be
there organizing a 5 game cross-genre Super Nintendo competition. I've made
a special trophy to award to the winner.

[ see image at http://crummysocks.com/images/other/trophy/full_shot.jpg ]
It all started with generic trophy with a Camaro on top (I got a deal on it
because someone else had ordered it from here [
http://www.gusdoernersports.com ] and never picked it up) and an ASCII  Pad
[
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/snes/peripherals/controllers-enhanced.html
]  that I found at the local goodwill for $0.25. I took the controler apart
and painted the shell gold [
http://crummysocks.com/images/other/trophy/closetop.jpg ]. I decided to
leave the buttons their original colors, mostly because the sliders for
turbo and autofire are color coded, and I painted over the labels (I
actually did that on purpose).

Now, since the controller still works, I wanted the winner to be able to
easily take it off and put it on the base. As cool as it might look, it's a
little difficult to play Super Nintendo games for any length of time when
it has a two pound weight on it. Since I couldn't find Velcro in this city
for some reason, I opted to use some craft magnets [
http://crummysocks.com/images/other/trophy/magnets.jpg ] to attach the two
pieces of the unit together.

And there you have it! It's a fairly straighforward project, but the end
result actually turned out better than I thought it would. 


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