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Okay!
After my editing software being an asshole, and not being able to access most of editing features, I've come up with this extremely rough cut.
Sorry about the quality, it's not entirely my fault, but it should be pretty helpful.

Do the bottom in red with black spatters.
Green buttons and LEDs?

Well, as long as you didn't buy the cheapest connector, you should be in good shape and you're NES will give you another 10-15 years of service.
Some if the really cheap connectors are slightly warped and don't make a good connection. If you get a warped one, there is a fix for it; Pay close attention to what way the plastics are warped, then take a hair dryer, put it on the medium heat setting, and slowly bend the connector until it's as close to straight as you can get it. Be very patient and careful and keep the connector about 4-5 inches away from the hair dryer. Test it periodically (letting it cool before each test) until it works properly.
If you encounter any other problems, just let me know.

Word up. Get some Brasso to clean those carts. It's about $4 at wal-mart (not that i condone that hell hole, but I guarantee that they have it).
So, you already installed the new 72 pin connector and disabled the lockout chip, and you're still having problems?

Alcohol is great for maintaining clean games.
To thoroughly clean your old carts, I suggest a q-tip and a small amount of Brasso, and then swab it out with a clean q-tip and some alcohol.
I'll post a video of how to refresh your 72 pin connector so you don't have to buy a new one.

This doesn't have anything to do with my keyboard... but could inspire me to get back into working on it.
Anyway, on the second Saturday of the month, there's an electronics flea market at De Anza College in Cupertino CA... I always go.
Some months are better than others. That being said; this was not a great month, but when you consider that I only spent $20 today, it's pretty impressive.

We'll start with these project cases. They give me all kinds of  fucking awesome ideas. The yellow ones are made out of metal, and I think they'll get turned into pocket emulators using a Raspberry Pi. The grey ones are plastic... don't know what I'll do with those, but it's nice to have. $10 for all of them.

And

Got this waterproof portable TFT/LCD color TV from the early 90's. Going to make a stock looking "Camping Genesis". $5 and it works perfectly.

Got a Famicom that looks pretty rough, but it fuckin' works... $5.

Alright... get ready for the free shit!
Vintage paper tape calculator that I'm turning into a Midi controller... and there will be a paper roll on it when I'm done.

A box of Playstation 2 stuff... and this shit works too.

There was some other stuff too: