Nintendo Entertainment System mod by Tim Worthington + Geek Island Gaming Power board replacement.

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NES RGB mod by Tim Worthington + Merlin Shaws Geek Island Gaming Power board replacement. Part 1 of 2.
Part 2 here:
• NES mod by Tim Worthin...
Join me as I repair and mod a childhood Nintendo Entertainment System for a friend. After fixing the dodgy power supply, I tackle the flaky cartridge connector. Then it's time for an RGB mod to improve the video quality. I install an amazing custom replacement board, but hit a snag when testing - it doesn't work! Stay tuned to find out what simple mistake I made and whether I can get this precious retro console working again. This nostalgic modding project lets me dig into the over-engineered guts of the NES and improve picture quality while preserving the original case. Follow along for restoration tips, soldering action, and misty-eyed game memories.
Matteus Beus Sega Retro Dev
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Merlin Shaw - Power module creator
github.com/ShawMerlin
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Checking the PSU
02:39 The NES Slot
03:45 Merlin Shaws Power Board
04:35 Initial Test
06:16 Teardown
08:35 Removing the old Modulator PSU
10:38 Fitting the Replacement Board
12:25 Testing Passthrough Composite
14:21 Removing the PPU chip
18:24 Installing the TW RGBNES
23:25 Closing Essential Jumpers (some of them)
24:01 Testing the RGB Board.
#nes #RGBNES #nintendoentertainmentsystem

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@BluesfireTV 18 күн бұрын

Excellent work my guy! Always happy to see someone who takes pride in their work!

@MoreFunMakingIt 18 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@Merlin_Shaw Жыл бұрын

Love your smooth sailing line!! :) Legend has it that someone did, in-fact, complete this upgrade the first time with zero issues...😆 Your Desoldering of the PPU is one of the finest seen on KZfaq. That board was still mint afterwards!!

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Cheers Merlin! You'll see its not entirely my fault in the next episode 🤣

@ferndog1461 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing Tim Worthington & Merlin Shaw wonderful contributions to the Salt & pepper hair retro gamers. Enjoy this channel.

@watty13 6 ай бұрын

Great video - Love how you keep all of the troubles/errors in there, as it stops others from making the same mistakes! 😁 My wife has gifted me her childhood NES and I'm going to attempt to bring it alive and kicking into the 21st century without hacking the case to bits. Having successfully HDMI modded a Wii, I'm going to attempt this mod, including attempting to get boards manufactured for the first time from Merlin's Github page.... I'm just holding out for his upcoming v3.0 before I make a start. Your video has given me the incentive to give this a go - Thanks!

@MoreFunMakingIt 6 ай бұрын

That's lovely to hear! Good luck with your wife's NES! 😁

@jackleg693 Жыл бұрын

You tease! But another superb video. I just love the way you can weave a story from the repairs/mods.

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

I do love a story! Almost as much as I love a J Thing comment 😁

@RetroComputingReboot Жыл бұрын

Another great video. Looking forward to the next installment. Nice camera work too. I really like the multiple angles

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I worked hard on the photography in this one. Glad someone noticed!

@RetroComputingReboot Жыл бұрын

@@MoreFunMakingIt The work paid off. It made it really enjoyable to watch. Well done

@wargameboy72 5 ай бұрын

Great work!! Your a braver man then l am.. I felt nervous just watching you mod and fix it. This definitely doesn't look like something a beginner should try...A beginner like me!!!! One day I would love to do this to my NES as well..But l needs to get my confidence and skills up first. Can't wait to see the conclusion!! Great video!!!!!😀👍👍👍

@RetroSegaDev Жыл бұрын

A shocking cliff hanger NOOOOO we've not had one of those in ages!

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

I felt bad doing it. But it was that or an hour long episode! 😆

@RudysRetroIntel Жыл бұрын

Excellent as always, and I look forward to your next video and see what was wrong. Thanks for sharing

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rudy! Wont be long!

@nathanbutcher7720 19 күн бұрын

I would have just installed an aftermarket cartridge slot replacement. They're more robust than the original in my experience. No more blowing on cartridges!

@MoreFunMakingIt 18 күн бұрын

In the end I did just that :D

@WhatHoSnorkers Жыл бұрын

Fantastic stuff sir!

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Cheers Snorkers!

@tigheklory 19 күн бұрын

Don't ever boil, bend or sand pins! Just put some Deoxit D100L on it! Sanding the pins removes the plating on the pins and makes them more susceptible to more oxidation!

@Dark_Jaguar 17 күн бұрын

The pins do bend out of alignment though. Bending or boiling are about the only means to fix that. Deoxit can't bend pins back into alignment. You're absolutely right about sanding it though. That's the absolute last resort, and even then, if you don't have a means of replating it, it's only a matter of time before they corrode again, and faster.

@tigheklory 17 күн бұрын

@@Dark_Jaguar I've never had a slot where they bent from normal use, I've only seen it where someone bent the pins trying to make it tighter. I've got a video on my channel where I fix a bunch of NESs with just Deoxit

@Dark_Jaguar 17 күн бұрын

@@tigheklory Hard to say then. I know I've run into a number where contact cleaners just don't cut it, but boiling them really did restore them to pristine tightness without going way too far to such an extent it feels like the pins are now scraping plating off each other. Maybe it just comes down to how much the NES in question was used, or, frankly, how often a Game Genie was in use on said system. Those things just weren't very kind to the pins.

@bobbus_74 Жыл бұрын

I hate waiting for part twos!

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

WHO DOES NUMBER TWO WORK FOR! Not long to wait bobbus :D

@ABizzyBYT Жыл бұрын

The sneak peek made me laugh out loud

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

😆

@JendaLinda Жыл бұрын

8 bit systems should be experienced how we did in the past, through RF on black and white CRT.

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Almost every 8bit system I owned I've used with a colour screen. But we all get our nostalgia buzz in our own way! Thanks for watching :D

@ferndog1461 7 ай бұрын

And we need to drive cars without decent suspension & manual starting cranks like great grandpa ! ? ! LOL

@krux7741 7 ай бұрын

good taste in retro gear AND perfume :)

@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Жыл бұрын

Years ago I did a cisco exam and one of the multiple choice questions had choice of 4 protocols, only one was correct. One of the choices was RTFM! You could tell when one of the exam participants reached that question because he would let out a little snigger.

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Haha! Love it!

@aaldrich1982 19 күн бұрын

I was driving yesterday and I realised that the NES wasn't really that different from the micro computers yet it feels very different. Let me explain what I mean. It has 2 input buttons on the joystick - a and b...but the dpad is really what makes it feel different to me, it just works so much better than a joystick for platformers. And really the majority of SNES games just focused on 2 or 3 buttons out of the 6 available (I'm ignoring start and select here).

@TheBasementChannel Жыл бұрын

First time I’ve ever hear isopropanolololol pronounce correctly. Well done.

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

I know how to start saying it. Stopping us where I fall down

@MrSkinnyBuh 9 сағат бұрын

The reason some of the games aren't working when you push them down is that they lose connection to the 82 pin connector. It sort of flexes in the down position. This is a common problem. A lot of us in the US have snipped a leg on the lockout chip... therefore not having to worry about pushing the cartridge down ever, it also disables several pins that are only for security, hence "lockout" and you have a much much lower chance of ever getting a blinking grey screen.

@JonathanSwiftUK 10 ай бұрын

1:29 old style UK plug, no sleeving on live and neutral pins. I guess that is very retro 😊

@MoreFunMakingIt 10 ай бұрын

Nice spot!

@ShadowcasterZero 2 ай бұрын

When you rebend the connection pins, if you lift them too much, one side will disengage when you push the cartridge down. So if you're going to push the pins closer, leave the cartridge up when you play. Also, you can disable the lockout chip easily, getting rid of the flashing blue screen

@Dark_Jaguar 17 күн бұрын

What do you mean by "one side" disengaging? Disabling the lockout chip is a common enough mod, in fact I've done so myself, but I don't think it appreciably improves the reliability of the console. If the pins aren't making contact, all that does is take the 10NES chip's specific pins out of the equation, but the rest of the pins will still need cleaning. From my experience, it doesn't make games that weren't working start working when that's done. It's just removing unneeded DRM. I'd also recommend avoiding any mod that fully removes the 10NES chip, as it's reset functionality is used by a tiny handful of games. Setting it from "lock" to "key" mode shouldn't be an issue though.

@MrSkinnyBuh 9 сағат бұрын

@@Dark_Jaguar the top side of the pins remains connected while the bottom side kind of disengages. think of a flex right in the middle of the contact point between the cartridge pins and the connector pins when you push the cartridge down.... Bad design in retrospect. Hence why all top loading cartridge consoles don't have this issue.

@Dark_Jaguar 5 сағат бұрын

@@MrSkinnyBuh I think I'll need a diagram, because I'm really not sure which element you're talking about or why bending the pins up would cause one half to disengage. Do you mean a contact pin slipping out of it's slot? I think this is one of those situations where words fail.

@MrSkinnyBuh 2 сағат бұрын

@@Dark_Jaguar think of where the cartridge pins and the connector meet. Now imagine they are like bridging a deck of cards. That’s what’s happening when you push it down.

@Dark_Jaguar Сағат бұрын

@@MrSkinnyBuh I get that part, I just don't get the danger in bending the pins "too much" so they... slip out? I'm just not picturing it right I don't think.

@zeusallfather-xn3rf 16 күн бұрын

"Super Mario BROSS" we play that on Chewsday.

@user-rv8lq6fn2l Жыл бұрын

Hope we get to play north and south again! 😂

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

100% guaranteed! 😁

@CallousCoder Жыл бұрын

A tip for not having to use heatshrink is get yourself some plumbers epoxy or apoxy. You can sculpt that nice (smiths great with some wet fingers). And it gets hard and solid and it won’t ever break again. Or what also works and I have used is those little plastic balls you put in hot water and sculpt with. But that’s just not as easy to smooth. The closing of the cartridge is a matter of twiddling two screws on the right and left or the cartridge slot. Put in a cartridge and twiddle those and try as you go. It’s a very common issue after you taken it apart. And yes over engineered for sure.

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

I like the epoxy tip!

@CallousCoder Жыл бұрын

@@MoreFunMakingIt your welcome That stuff rules also a great alround adhesive.

@troogroove9318 Жыл бұрын

You make the mistakes so I don’t have to, all should be good for my future project. Thanks 😊

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

It's a service I provide... 😆

@kingofl337 Күн бұрын

I had great luck with a regular heat gun to remove the rf board.

@user-gz4zu2zg7g 18 күн бұрын

I know the cartridge slot will work that way when you bend the pins up too far. Eventually, they will wear down again and should be back to normal.

@MoreFunMakingIt 18 күн бұрын

In the end I replaced the slot. Lesson learned!

@propinki 19 күн бұрын

Actually when pins are good you don't have to pull them down, pulling down degrade connection :)

@LaurenGlenn 20 күн бұрын

I want to check out his channel to hear if Mateus's theme song is Rock Me Amadeus.

@MoreFunMakingIt 19 күн бұрын

I have met him in person and can confirm that his ring tone is that song. (this could be a lie)

@FireDragonAndromeda 19 күн бұрын

North & South? I remember that on the Commodore Amiga....

@taltechchip5827 Жыл бұрын

One mistake is that you use a round hole 40pin ic socket that doesn't clamp on the legs and will give intermittent failures. I speak from experience..

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Are you sure? The pins on the underside of the RGBNES board are round turned pins... Im not a fan of turned pin either, but in this instance they are the right part for the job.

@taltechchip5827 Жыл бұрын

@@MoreFunMakingIt I'm pretty sure it will be a recipe for disater. Specially when you lift and insert the pins a few times they will become lose. There is no pressure on the sides and some of the pins will basically hang in the middle of the hole without touching the sides.

@markianclark9645 10 күн бұрын

As they often say on KZfaq videos...what could possibly go wrong...usually they get it right...when they don't it makes for a more interesting video...not what the KZfaqr prefers though...

@MotownBatman Жыл бұрын

I Lost my Atari 7800, Christmas Present '89 when I was 6/7. I thought dad Trashed it after nobody would give me Trade Value for a Genesis. 20 Years Later; One of My Older Cousins, had it in a Box of His old ColecoVision Equit. THERE WAS MY 7800! My dad gave it to them for some reason, I gues to see what games they could use with the Coleco. But Still, that was my OLDER Cousins. They had much better stuff at this point. My Cousin Also Didn't want to get my 7800 Back. I had to PROVE it was mine, by calling out Blemishes for him to Dig thru the Box & Find. Even then, if there was a Duplicate, I didn't get MINE back, I got the Worse looking one.

@MoreFunMakingIt 11 ай бұрын

Friends are better than family 😆

@douglasquaid4518 13 күн бұрын

I had a Nintendo that I opened and cleaned I think I put the 70 pin connector back in upside down so I had to do is push the game in without pushing it down it worked great

@calvinthedestroyer 18 күн бұрын

Where do you get such high tech pieces of wood?

@MoreFunMakingIt 18 күн бұрын

High tech trees :D

@Nukle0n 11 ай бұрын

I would've reused the can from the old RF/Power unit, just for the structural integrity, and not having any screws left over :P

@MoreFunMakingIt 11 ай бұрын

That didnt occur to me. I will try that on the next one.

@neophytealpha 20 күн бұрын

If you had put the PPU back in a socket may have been easier

@CallousCoder Жыл бұрын

Should the RF shielding not go back just for mechanical strengths. This exerts an extreme amount of force on 4 critical flimsy solder joints for every plug je stick in. You already saw it wobble when you put in a connector. Or is that for part 2? 😊

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

Part 2 indeed!

@intel386DX 8 ай бұрын

Why didn't you solder a socket to the RGB board instead of directly soldering the PPU?

@R2AUK Жыл бұрын

Let me guess: the AC plug is not plugged in / the power supply is off? (also the power cable used in the end is different from the one show in the beginning, could be important :D )

@MoreFunMakingIt Жыл бұрын

So close. And yet...