Such a cool build. Not sure why it's so satisfying watching you solder things to the board!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing the experience with this board.

Much love to you! I sent my PS1 to get the xstation mod and I had a non-compatible board. My man emailed me and explained the issues, took what I sent him and made the console I dreamed of. 200% recommend his service.

Love your vids, very chill and informative, i'm gonna do an NESRGB install when mine comes in the mail soon, ordered it september 6th but took a bit to ship. It's been very suspenseful as i desoldered everything weeks ago with a pretty bad soldering iron and hand solder pump, but it went surprisingly well, i hope once it's actuallly installed and done that it actually works, but i've watched you install so many of them that that shouldn't be a problem hahah

omg i can watch you do these all day. love the 8bit audio as well. great video and you got me into retro repair and modding. Please shoe more videos for us dummies for how to solder and beginner stuff. Great videos keep them coming.

I love to watch you assembling all this stuff... Is relaxing! 😊 😊 Congrats!

Wow this project looks incredible. Definitely would like to see how it finishes up with a proper enclosure.

For videos like this I subscribed to the channel and every Friday I am faithful to see these great modifications to retro consoles, from my part I congratulate you brother for such beautiful work you do. you are a crack my respect for your person

I'm honestly too tired because of work to keep watching but I really enjoy seeing the soldering reinforcements on the back of the board and the clipping of the extra wire parts because that's not something I see in a lot of retro console or handheld fixes. It's part of the beauty of building from scratch that isn't really shown in other "from scratch" builds with raw mobos. This was ASMR type satisfying both from the visuals and the midi music

Love it!! Can't wait to see it in a cool case!

Any NES content such as this is awesome. Thanks for posting.

Never could do this on my own, but fantastic to see your work! NICE JOB!

I always look forward to these videos on a Friday, so interesting!

I wish there was something like this for SNES and the N64. Great video.

Do you know of any one working on a new board for a top loader NES? We need someone in the community to come out with a pcb replacement in this form factor

awesome! love your posts, keep saving old consoles. 👍

Fantastic skills glad ima found your channel as love tinkering with retro tech and fixing broken consoles etc

Your retro skills are unmatched!

This is once again a great video! Thanks alot

HA! I finally sat down and did my NESessity build with a Hi-Def NES a couple months ago, and it was instantly a favorite with both my kids and me. Seeing a new generation board released so shortly after I finally finished my build hit me funny. Still awesome to see continued support and modernizing for these vintage consoles. I'm hoping a similar update for the SNES is developed sooner rather than later, along with some sort of legitimate HDMI mod.

Sweet! Nice work. Very tempted to build one of these repro mobo's. 🤘

I got happy seeing you using sockets, is the best idea but not everyubody uses them, very nice man!

Really great board. I wish there would be a shell for it. So I could have my own awesome NES. I could harvest my junk famicom and build a RGB mod on top of it like you did.

Love your videos, keep it up!

Wonderful video!

This is the future I wanted. I'm glad we're finally here.

That's a rad kit! I hope you had a bucket of ice in standby for your hands after all of that soldering. 😁

Really great video, thank you for keeping the soldering footage. People don't realize what a time investment it is. They also might not realize how detail oriented it has to be, one simple polarity or component value mistake can means hours of troubleshooting, or worse. You did an excellent job.

Super awesome build and saw your comment about an enclosure. Would love to see a picture of it if you are able to stuff it in a case.

22:40 T.W. NESRGB pinout jumper explanation

Thoroughly impressed watching you do those tight solder points with an average sized soldering iron. That and how clean it looks when you're done. Well done!

would be very cool to see a nice custom case for this board.

I can't believe I've only just heard about the multimeter trick to detect the ohm of a resistor. I'm officially 20 years a noob... Awesome video too - thanks!

This is a really cool product - reminds me of my past Megasquirt projects, only now it’s for the NES. There’s a huge personal satisfaction completing something like this, that you definitely can’t buy off the shelf. Does this fit into the original case? If not, no big deal. A PCB soldering + 3D printing project sounds like a great time with my kids.

Just got mine in the mail. Open it up and thought well i need all the parts to build it. So i ordered the parts kit. I should just ordered it all together. I can't wait to build it, i need my 200th way to play NES games. Lol

I would love to see more of these PCBs for more consoles, and replacement for the main unit chips, you will end up mounting your own mega drive, NES...

Awesome! I also built a NESessity thanks to your old video.

LOL The 8 bit music is so fitting for this.

That’s nuts!

pretty cool board 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

great build! Wood case would be amazing.

This would be really awesome in a clear case!

Damn you’re so good at this stuff.

Those things are so rad! I love watching you do these builds. Are these only custom made PCB’s or can they be ordered directly?

really like to see this project

NB: to lessen the chance of IC damage due to ESD (especially as you're not using any ESD protection) - I recommend installing the ICs last. For two reasons: 1. it reduces the amount of handling time 2. once the passives are mounted they provides alternate discharge paths to prevent discharge through the IC

I watch these going this looks so cool I should look into this. Then I remember that I already have the setup I want. I just always get the itch to build something when watching other people do it. LOL

Wow very cool. I want one

I love that a dead NES could be resurrected as long as the core chips are still working. Truly amazing what people in the retro modding scene are capable of!

Wow how awesome

I'd love to mod an NES to use pogo pin connectors rather than the style of spring that the original had. The main reason being that the pogo pins should be a bit more resilient when inserting and removing carts, or at bare minimum a bit easier on the carts.

So damn close, there's just two edits I want. 1. Include the Nintendo multi out on the PCB itself. The Nintendo av cable just uses a pcb as the male connector, and it would be more cost effective to just add it to the main PCB. 2. New surface mount components for everything that can be replaced with a modern equivalent. It would reduce the board size some more, making the PCB cheaper, and SMD is usually cheaper/ more common these days. I want to make my own Famicom board with this design in mind, including a pin header for an s-video comb filter adapter, dsub 15 for accessories, db9 for controllers (dendy Pinot), a 3.5mm for the mic, and usb power. I just don't play enough NES to care, and the price for games just keeps rising. Plus this is a complicated design for me, it would take like a year.

Like your soldering skills

Damn, that thing sounds amazing

great job, better than any emulator, the true thing, with little tweaks if wanted, that's great! Shame that you did not preserve the cartridge horizontal insertion, because you should be able to make a case which would be as close as the original one!

Your soldering skills are most impressive.

Subscribed from LI. Pretty cool.

Bueno ahora a por la Super NES exelente video

I find these console assembly videos oddly satisfying. If my uncle were alive and still with us today he would agree with me... maybe.

A NES Styled Case with Famicon's Color would be really dope for this.

Fantastic

I remember a video of Kevtris talking about having a console that played everything (Zimba 3000) or something. I would kill for a NES, SNES, N64 console. Imagine having a single board with all three cartridge slots and controller ports. Something like sending your three consoles or special chips/controller ports from them to Long Island Retro to have it assembled. I'd pay 1,000 dollars for something like that, ESPECIALLY if they output RGB/HDMI. Then collaborating with some of these other guys on youtube for a special case. I work at a place in the US that produce injection molded parts. We even build all of our molds here. I've always wanted to get involved with some kinds of retro video game related stuff. I've had several ideas for years now and never had the money to build the molds to make it happen but maybe if enough people in the community were on board it could happen one day.

This is a cool project. It makes me want to build one. Then I remember that I don't play nes enough to warrant building one.

Awesome redesign now if only there was a proper 3d printed case.

Wow. What skill.

So, my wife mentioned she never got to see Mario 3 all the way through as a child. We have storage bays and someone had left a NES in it awhile back. Dug it out and had to take it apart and clean and SMB3 was in it. So, here’s the thing. Both my wife and I were astonished at how bad we were at the game. We are 40 yrs old, btw. We both had bragged to each other about our younger years Mario prowess and it literally took us two hours to get to world 3??? Later that night I did some research and learned about the latency issue with LCD screens vs the old CRT TVs. There’s even a gentleman who made an iOS app called “Is it snappy” to test. Thankfully I discovered that our TV had a “Game” mode that reduced the 100ms latency down to a more reasonable number. What a difference it made! Or at least we think it did. The improvement could have also been the couple hours of practice the night before. Made me think of the thousands that have probably revisited older consoles and had this happen, walking away with their tale tucked. I also learned that modern consoles using HDMI will allow TVs to recognize the console and automatically switch to game mode.

Thats sweet

Kudos!

0:30 - "Original NESessity Console" Clever pun twist on _Necessity_

These PCB replacements have been very popular lately, this one is probably the best one so far, but I still think there are some things that could be implemented like a multi-tap and a 50/60Hz switch, but how many games have you tested with it? I think it's not impossible to have some compatibility issues with Battletoads with the second level crashing.

Hey, this was awesome! I have some questions that you may have answered somewhere in the comments below, but at the time of writing this comment there are already 441 other comments (so please forgive me if I don't go hunting through all of them to find answers to my questions). Questions: 1. For Famicom cartridges, is there a way to modify the board (either directly or via some kind of daughter board) so that the cartridge can be used with the front label facing front instead of facing the TV (or monitor)? 2. When you had the Famicom version of Super Mario Brothers being demonstrated in your video, is it just me or was the time remaining countdown clock running a bit faster than it should be? Perhaps the chip(s) that handle the clock were a bit fast? 3. Who makes the GREEN colored boards that you installed on the Super 8 Bit (I'll later abbreviate as S8B) main board? Do those also come in the same color as the S8B mainboard? 4. When will you be testing the expansion port? 5. Did you have to sacrifice an old NES for the NES-specific chips in this build? If not did they come with the kit or did you have to obtain them somewhere online? Perhaps that info is in the instructions from the links you provided just under your fantastic video. 6. Could you explain the use of the liquid you sometimes used? It seems like sometimes you used it when soldering some components to the board but other times you did not. This was fantastic and really enjoyable to watch.

wish i could do stuff like that would love to that one

Would be nice to have an HDMI output option.

Awesome .

Cool!

*Watches you leave a row of VRAM pins unsoldered and yelling at the screen.*

I wish I was skilled enough to do something like that. But I am not good at sodering and I don't know anything about electronics :( Still watched the whole video! Very informative none the less!

Neat board, good build. Looks like they're sold out on tindie, but jointed the waitlist. One nitpick is you keep referring to plated through-holes as vias, which are not the same thing, and might be confusing to people. For instance, in >2 layer boards, there can be vias that don't go through the entire board, but a through-hole (the items you're referring to) are always all the way through the board.

Okay so I can't place the music about halfway through the video when you're doing the speed up. It's on the tip of my brain but I can't think of it and it's driving me bananas🤪

Amazing video. Could you make a tutorial of that pcb design? Would be very appreciated!

Its like building your own analog nes

how ironic... i was just in long island a few weeks ago. anyways great video! i remember you or some one doing this awile ago

Nice FPGA bro ;-)

You should rig up a little adapter for the Famicom port so you can turn it around to face the front.

it would look cool if you used a smoke grey for the plastic. might have to look into metal hinges for the trap doors on the 3d print though plastic ones might ware out to fast.

perfect to make the N Toaster mark III

that RGB-jumper cables (and CYV) should have it's own ground connection as well for close coupling of somewhat fast signalling. As it stands, the return path for those signals is from "where ever" it can find the return path, instead of where it wants to go, which is the same route as it came from. Providing separate ground will make better image quality and reduce EMI issues.... There's - connection point provided at the other end for you to do that I think... you should.

Nice product and I will build mine eventually. I bought a famicom and famicom av to use for the parts. How much can you salvage from an existing products instead of using new digikey parts? I like to give my desolding station some usage. Going to use the composite for now.

Very cool stuff, indeed! I bet there are 3D printing options that would enable a lot of folk with bench/printer combo (such as we do) to make this kind of thing. Does this have any way to incorporate the modded audio chips that produce the cleaner proper waveforms for NES music? Either way, fantastic work!

Waiting for some new videos on snes !!!! could you post a link for the project on pcbway ?

Music is gangster! Lol

It's really cool! But I think I'll stick with a mister for accurate NES experience with RGB/HDMI, and keep my NES laying around as decoration forever. But this is so cool

Fun fact: You can trim sockets or put one next to the other.

low_budget is amazing.

Very nice. I saw a video once which improved the sound which I assume the video was "How I Created the Perfect NES Sound Chip". I would have been nice if it has all the featured of an emulator and that it can take USB. I usually like messing around with the cheat features for fun on the emulator than just the game. I beat hard games and now I just dont care to try since playing is too time consuming.

Hello your videos are amazing congratulations, now where could I buy this PCB from the video?

Out of stock!? You're too popular! 😁

Ok, so the 6502 and the PPU were my biggest issue. I set out to rebuild the NES board using all new parts. Have it fit the console shell and mate up just like original. I made a couple modifications via a connector so that if you didn't want to out wear and tear on your antique carts you could use sdcard to store them. The CPU was a tough deal. Unless I ruined a console or found a broken one with a good cpu and ppu I could harvest but that ruined the whole spirit... the idea of all modern hardware. I solved the Cpu by sourcing a chip with backwards compatibility. It was the nes lock out chip and PPU that were troublesome. Even though I walked away with a working console it was a failure. Nes lockout, ppu and cpu all set a tough hurdle. My only answer was to instead consolidate and use am FPGA for all three. I ended up with a console that booted up exactly like a nes but if you flipped a switch on mobo you can turn on sd card storage have access to a basic menu system that allowed tweaking. In the end ... it wasn't worth it

Any updates on a case for the super 8 bit? I recently built one but I'm struggling learning CAD to design one on my own.

Nize!