So i measured out the interior of the case and cut/drilled out a plastic sheet to mount the motherboard to. (I thought painting it grey would make it look better... I was wrong) I ran into the problem of the screw pegs being in the way of the sheet so after trying a few methods (Thus the unnecessary holes) I decided to cut the pegs inside in the middle and then cut the corners off the plastic sheet so I could still screw the NES shut.
(For some reason I cant get this photo landscape...)
After accidently dropping a calculator I came into position of small plastic calculator keys which I used as spacers for the hard drive slot due to it not being level/ in line with the NES case. so I glued a few of them underneath and it seemed to fit perfectly.
With the hard drive I wanted the ability to take it in and out for file transfer. So I needed to secure the mini usb cable which was accomplished by the use of plastic bits, green stuff (which I found along with the clippers in my old Warhammer stash) and A LOT of super glue. It doesn't look pretty but it holds and you don't see it anyway so Im not too bothered. I cut off a strip of that insulator padding that came with the motherboard and taped it to the end of the plastic sheet to stop too much dust etc getting in the gap between it and the motherboard.
I then hack-sawed off the ends of the controller ports and cut a hole for the hdmi/power cable and then assembled everything which fitted all nicely. All thats left now is software.
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