I remember when Walmart had a big pallet of these on sale for $50 on Black Friday one year back around 1999 or thereabouts. Talked my mom into buying one for me for Christmas as a spare for my original SNES. It still hasn't been needed yet and other than 5 minutes being tested back then, still sits in its box. But this has me tempted to get it modded and finally put it to use.

Don't know if you guys in the US know this, but here in Brazil the last Snes Jr. model produced, back around 1996, only had RF and no multiout. Also the most common nickname for this model here is "Snes baby".

This is the best video of this install i've seen. Good camera angles, showing the recap also. Excellent!

Love the Thunder Force IV choice of music!

This is really cool, the difference of quality is huge!

This was one of the first mods I did back in the day, love my SNES Jr, but did discover an odd quark. Treasures of the Rudras seems to have glitchy text boxes on the SNES Jr and not with an original boxy SNES. This was using a flash cart and translated rom. While it could be the rom itself, I did not encounter the glitched text boxes on the original SNES.

Love this! I agree, a great mod for newcommers to get their feet wet with. Not difficult soldering, not expensive, and who doesn't enjoy crispy RGB on the SNES! I'd say "RGB" vs "Component" comes down to what inputs you have available to you, what cables you have available to you (and how easy you can get them or afford them) and if you have any video processing / scaling hardware available to you. For the most part, component is usually seen as slightly inferior. My guess is because a lot of TV's will do some processing on the video signal piped in through the component jacks. Not all though, not even all that many but enough do it for it to be "a thing". If left alone, most people would have a very hard time telling the difference between RGB over SCART and yPbPr over component. HDRetroVision cables are great stuff, it's just unfortunate that they are so hard to get a hold of. The secondary market prices are insane on eBay. I never though I'd see the day when those cables were selling for $200+ used.

Just did mine last night!!

People call a two chip because of the soundboard chips in the back where the sound module goes on the very early models

Sweet I need to do this to my SNES Jr thanks for creating a tutorial!

The Brazilian model of the SNES Jr actually has RF out and only RF out, so that's where the RF modulator got used.

Cool video. I grew up in Ridge, NY.

This is probably the best image I have ever seen out of a Super Nintendo. Would you recommend buying a SNES PCB that doesn't turn on for 7$? There are no SNES PCB replacements and I heard fixing them isn't as easy as other consoles.

The 'SNES Jr' wasn't ever released in Europe or any other PAL region (not even Australia or New Zealand!) TBH. Also, you can 3D-Print your own 'region free' cart support so you can use not just USA titles but Japanese too (even the Sufami Turbo and Super Gameboy 2!) without affecting its resale value!

One thing that confuses me a bit in Borti's instructions on GitHub pertains to adding resistance for a brightness fix to prevent it from looking too washed out. I see Borti added those resistors to the board, (R11, R21 and R31) so you don't have to reuse other resistors on the SNES board. The part that confuses me, is - are those resistors part of the circuit by default? His instructions still mention that you can still grab resistors elsewhere if you want, but also says: "seems to be a good choice. By replacing R3 on the SNES mainboard you must not use the brightness correction resistors R11, R21 and R31 on the modding board." So are R11, R21, R31 on the PCB not actually doing anything by default (How else would you 'not use them'?). Are you expected to do some soldering to 'use' those three resistors he built-in?

Definitely worth a sub

Love these vids. You have earned my subscription good sir.

Actually in Brazil those SNES Jr has only RF Out, no Multiout unfortunately, that's why that spot

just curious but what wire did you use?

The music at 7:04 sounds like E1M1 lol

The SNES Jr. already had great RGB, you just need to connect it with the old 3 wire mod. It's more difficult but you save on the cost of the bypass board. Definitely recap the board and you might also want to do the vertical line fix and replace the voltage regulator as well. You can even get digital audio with the SPDIF mod if you want the best possible audio and video from your old SNES.

Nice! I have an SNES Jr. but it is the other way around, with only the RF out. Can I just install the multi-out before the RGB and that's it?

Hi! I have an SNES RGB bypass modded system-what cables would you recommend? I also have a regular N64 and a Sega Genesis 2-which cables would you recommend? I’m trying to run them all through a RetroTink 5X. I also need a component switcher. Please give me some advice! Thanks

the brazilian version has rf modulator and they ommited the multiout for some reason

The brazilian version have RF module and no multiout port.

Long life Super nes !

Love it! I’m always in search of the best possible experience - how does this console compare to the og 1-chip non-jr? Is output identical on an og 1-chip? How is output compared to a super nt?

I have an ossc recently acquired as a gift. What cable do I need to gain the benefits from this rgb mod?

Are the throughholes you put the wires into labeled at all? If so what are they? It was a little hard to tell with the CSYNC wire being slightly unaligned with the others. Just want to make sure I get this right

How does this method compare to Voultar's? I've noticed that the PCB board looks similar to Voultar's design.

but voultars the board he uses and sells installs them in both the SNES Jr, and the snes 1-chip versions 01, 02, 03.

With mine I get diagonal noise through the whole image. Any idea why?

I did a rgb mod to my snes jr forever ago and it was just some wires and maybe a couple resistors, why does that board have so many components? It's been forever since I did it but this looks like a lot more then what I remember doing

What cable do I use when I do this mod, same component cables and I get the better picture?

Looks easy enough, though you mentioned using special cables to make it work. If this has no effect on the included composite cables, can you let us know the cables that are needed to take advantage of this? I likely wont bother with this as i have an Analog SuperNt, but still neat to see.

I live on the east end of long island… anyway you can help me out with this mod??

Hi I have one question: What are the differences between a SNES Jr. 101 and a SNES Jr. 001 . Thank you

If I am new to soldering, do you have suggestions on gear needed and recommendations and how would you recommend someone starting into this life? I tried a game gear and screwed it up.

Did you have to disable pin 3 on the multi out ?

Nice mod as always ❤ maybe a odd question but where can we purchase these modchips thanks in advance

bro, orange instead of blue?

I need someone who know how to do this in my Jr. SNES...badly.

Thanks for the video. I recently purchased a Snes Jr Modded with the RGB bypass (Borti's) along with C47/C11 replacements and I'm seeing some static artifacts - mainly on solid color backgrounds (flickering checkered boxes is the best way to describe it). Any ideas on what could be wrong? I'm running my modded snes jr through a retrotink 5x via HD retrovision cables. I don't have any noise/static in any of my other consoles that are running through the retrotink. Could this have something to do with the LPF options on the RGB board itself? I'm on a quest for the best video output possible and I'm sooooo close! Thanks for your help/consideration.

iam in uk so rgb is native :P and our snes looks way cooler

Question: You've done two new NES boards (OpenTendo and Super 8 Bit). Would you do one for the SNES? If such a thing exists?

Bro, is the motherboard that Redherring32 working on an open source?

coming home and seeing this video beauty, I would like to ask you something which RGB plate is better, the one that sells voultar or is borti, I await your sincere answer. I am missing the indicator light connection in this installation and the Luma and Chroma connection to have super video output.

Does this mod stack with Retro Gem on 64?

What tool did you use to remove the caps? That looks like it makes things a lot easier than using a standard iron to pull everything out.

Probably a stupid question - if I plan to use sync-on-composite then the RGB wires are the only ones I have to solder? Or should I also solder the sync one?

RF modulators were obsolete in the 80's, let alone the 90's when this was released. Can't say I blame them for leaving it out. If someone really had that old of a TV in the 90's they could've hooked it up through a VCR or something. I see no need to support RF on any console newer than the 2600.

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Good evening, how are you? I'm thinking about doing this mod too and I see you previously did another Snes Jr RGB Mod two years ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptN6o8Shrqu7oJ8.html What's the difference between them, if there's so? Thank you very much, also for this nice vid that I'll use in the near future!

Do you have a business

This is a great video didn't like the auto focus too much since you talk with your hands alot. mouhahahaha. My wife tells me the same thing lol. I want to do a mega mod for one console to see how good can a console get mouhahahah

the zoom was bouncing around all over the place.