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What brand of capacitors do you get from Mouser? Aside from being high quality, it's neat that they're red.

For your dad's wire strippers that "aren't working as well as they used to", grab some light 3-in-1 oil (sometimes called sewing machine oil) and and treat the bearings (or moving surfaces). After applying the oil, work the tool a few times and then let it sit an soak in for a day.

22:43 That happens on all frontloader NES boards, there are 2 or 3 pins if I recall, that are actually soldered from both the solder and parts side, no internet guide tells you this, I had to use my iron and desolder wick to get those off.

How can I get the diagnostic cartridge so I can test a unit properly?

What I don't like is the musak. Why do so many RUclipsrs think we hate silence?

Thank you for sharing. Im learning by working on the 1970's Atari VCS/2600. Gonna replace the ole caps with a kit of new ones.

Some trouble sometimes feels like destiny doesn't want you to succeed but when you gotta play nes games, you gotta play nes games!!

i wouldn't worry about a hi def nes, just get a tink, i got a RT5X and it looks amazing with the tim worthington NES RGB mod (i got the 3.0 so no pallet swapping but i like the pallet i use)

Are you pulliing thise cpus from super famicoms?

Awesome job troubleshooting that cpu. Thanks for the great content.

RIP top loader

...I still watch you in Russia and I'm glad that everything is okay with you.

...I still watch you in Russia and I'm glad that everything is okay with you.

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Im havin a problem with mine as well it seems only half the voices are comin through its apparent when im playong mario the jumps half the time dont come through and the low end of the songs are muffled but theres still some aidio any help would be much appreciated thanks 👍🙏

You can do a stereo mod on an NES; the CPU outputs two audio channels that are just tied together, but it's not worth it. One side is like noise and percussion and the other has the notes, something like that - it's been a while. I tried it and undid it because it was so annoying!

We need you to keep going with the videos, "retro repair" left a lil hole in the community hopefully you can fill that void cause you definitely got that gas my boi

TLDR; I don't recommend anything I use. LOL

I've always wanted to see one of these done, very facinated but I cant justify a 100$+ mod for a comsole that i can emulate on my watch. i always love seeing videos from this channel

Nice work, love the content! -- That hole in the back is for bugs to climb in to your console. Obviously. (jk but srsly, you should plug it.)

If I was doing this I would get the mold gametechusa made which sandwiches in-between the the 2 halfs making no cut mod to the original case if he still sells them

I wish top loaders weren't so expensive. Id gladly mod myself one. Cant decide if I want to wait on buying one or mod my frontloader.

Well done. I did this one 4 years ago and love it. Definitely the hardest mod I ever did but it gave me a lot of confidence.

I hear you on the hakko 888D. I feel what had happen was a point in time it really was dominating compared to the older technology which most older folks were use to havibg to wait minutes before being able to solder. My first station I ever got was a cheap weller and bro I had to go make a coffee and a sandwich before it was ready to go. So the 888D was a massive upgrade for the time. Now of course since cartridge base stations took over the market they are ideal and much more convinient to use. The T12 were very popular before I upgraded to my aixun T3A. I choose it because i wanted to get into the C245 cartridges which are amazing and can pretty much run through anything with alot of power delivery. Only the 470 beats it because of the tough ground plains but its so versatile in the different cartridges you can use. Ever since then my 888 took the back seat and never gets powered on anymore but I keep it because its a old reliable work horse and in case of an emergency ive got a good backup. Tools I currently need to get are a bench power supply, proper fume extractor, oscilloscope, and I would love a good esr meter to test caps. Excellent talk about probes for the meter im running with probe masters they are really comfortable smooth and soft silicone. You should check them out. They are on par with pomona's and all the other good ones like flukes.

I have a SNES 1chip that won't display or output anything, just a black screen. The sync signal is present, but no audio or video information is being output. Would you be able to fix an issue like this? I've tried everyrhing that I can without replacing the CPU itself, and I don't have the skills to do that. Is there a way that I could send it to you?

Great job! Don't be so hard on yourself. Keep the videos coming. 😁

Excellent work! I just picked up a Famicom top loader and I'm wondering if there's a way to mod it to replace the Famicom 60 pin connector with a 72 pin NES connector.

Ur cranking sir!

Bro I waited over 5 Years for this Video lol...

i was waiting for tim worthington to get them back in stock before the LavaRGB was a thing and ended up buying a krikzz RGB Blaster instead.

Kinda wanted to try this, but never got around to installing a NESRGB myself, I just use an AV Famicom with an RGB Blaster. Might do a LumaCode install once it's available for NTSC. There's also the RGBS PPU coming from RgRDev. Also hoping a new HDMI mod will be here sometime soon, maybe from PixelFX.

This is the mod that I want to do to my toploader. Need to buy one and have it done. I don’t have a solder sucker gun to desolder and extract the ppu. I also don’t 100% trust myself on the mod.

A 50 Minute Video Nice...

i did this on the smaller famicom toploader, good mod

Every TV I've bought in the past 20 years still has an antenna screw on cable connector, which is what one uses to connect an RF adapter to.

The issue with machined pin sockets is that they only work well with clean round pin headers, no desoldered flat lead chips. I’m not sure why they even make them in DIP arrangements considering that DIP chips don’t have round pins. Of course, the adapter board here does, which is why they would have been fine for that part. For the desoldered PPU itself: Only use a dual-wipe socket or directly solder.

The next tool I need is a good capacitors tester but I haven't done my research yet and I get lost in the different kinds when I browse aliexpress.

I bought the Pro'skit SS-331 desoldering station for around 133 euros a while ago and it has proven to be one of the most useful tools. I'm quite happy with it so far. By the way, I'm probably repeating myself, but I just love your channel, it's one of my absolute favorites! 👍

Great video! Makes me want to buy more broken sness/sfcs to just fix them up, i already have a lot of stock to sell tho lmao

Harbor freight has 3 styles of those self adjusting wire strippers for anyone thats looking. 8 to 20 depending on the brand.

Also, bench power units are very useful if you work on Gameboys

That Hakko desoldering pump is awesome. It also has a wide variety of tips that work well for different jobs. I recently got the slotted tip which works well for removing things like heat sinks. Also, you actually can get the Japanese version pretty cheap off of eBay but make sure you get a power converter if you do. I almost did that but I opted to just get the American version because I didn't want to deal with that but if you want to save some money that's the way you can go

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I found this video from a four-year-old comment you posted on Reddit. This series is incredibly satisfying to watch, though it also gives me some perspective on what I can realistically expect without your skills and equipment. Probably not gonna replace a bad CPU with a Radio Shack soldering iron and prayers.

Very intelligent

That was fun! More please

Great work!!! I love it

Would it be worth it to install a chip socket to make future installations/chip swaps easier?

Amazing job!