113 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Here's a sneak peek at my next build.

Because the universe refuses to provide me the opportunity to purchase one of these.

I have no choice but to build one of my own.
It won't be identical, but mine will be better.

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114 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Vile wrote:

Your plastic graphing skills are ridiculous!

Thank you. Years of practice (re. counterfeit rocket Fetts, Tamiya model kits, Warhammer, and dioramas).

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115 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Power?
Reset?
A Jedi needs not these things!
But, the NES does.
BEHOLD! Relocated buttons, and the process by which they were moved!

Can't do anything else to the top half until I get my screen and sheet of ABS.
Time to start gutting the bottom so I can mount the cartridge port and the other assorted guts.

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116 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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The end of another day, and after a lot of measuring, very careful cutting, gluing, and sanding; my prototype is looking almost identical to my foamcore mockup.

I've breathed in so much plastic dust the last few days... I just might cough up a Lego.

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117 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Apeshit wrote:
Teh D3th St4r wrote:

Am I being annoying?

I think he meant "enjoying".

Looking like a promising mod, looking forward to seeing the final product.

LOL! I figured it was a typo, I just couldn't figure out what word was supposed to go there.
Going down to Gary's Plastic to get a sheet of 2.5mm ABS on Friday, and my TFT display and battery pack should be in tomorrow.

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118 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Am I being annoying?

Anyway, GRAFTING PLASTIC!!!

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119 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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My brother is building one of those!

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120 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Practice run on the top half (to get accurate measurements for when I have panels precut) don't have the screen cut out yet because the TFT display hasn't been delivered yet.
Compare foamcore mockup to working prototype in progress.

I'm particularly proud of this little piece.

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121 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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I retrofitted that silly little spring flap/door/thingie to work.
There was a considerable amount of futzing involved, but now it works perfectly and looks fantastic.

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122 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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arfink wrote:

I have also heard (with my own ears) that it has audio issues, and doesn't do expansion audio either on the US version. But for most games it's hard to notice.

I've seen somewhere around the interwebs that somebody did a new custom PCB that you can just drop a PPU and CPU from an NES onto and it supplies the rest, and it's really tiny. I can't seem to find it at the moment though.

This thing is going to a have a single 2.5" speaker... The audio isn't going to be great anyway.

If you find a link for that tiny board, you'd better let me know ASAP.

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123 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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arfink wrote:

I've messed with Yobo before, don't they have problems with Castlevania 3?

And a few others.
The yobo has a different crystal in it, and runs about 8x faster than the NES. So games that use the "flicker" technique to accommodate for the limited capabilities of the NES tend to glitch or have completely absent sprites during gameplay. But this only effect 4-5 games in the entire NES library.

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124 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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Here's the beginnings of the functional prototype.

I'm using a Yobo clone (re. the only clone that performs better than the original hardware) for the primary function and the cartridge slot.

Figure out where it goes, and measure very carefully.

Cut that shit!

Gently shape everything until it fits snugly.

Boom! Worked out just like I thought it would!
(That almost never happens)

Now I have a bunch of gluing, sanding, filling, filing, and soldering to do... Stay tuned.

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125 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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I also questioned taking the "grill" off the face of this design... so I decided to put it back.
I think it looks WAY better. I'll figure out another place in the design to integrate the "Power" and "Reset" buttons.

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126 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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onapokoya wrote:

If you build that I will buy it!

I'm building the prototype right now (I'll post some picks of the build later) and then I'm going to build between 5 and 10 of them.

Limited run/exclusive art kind of thing.
Not sure about what they'll cost, but it may be kinda spendy.

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127 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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rygD wrote:

The second version also looks cool.  I like the integrated storage and battery.  Any handles?

What led you to relocate the grille to the top instead of the front?

I like the angles on these.

I'm going to include a folding handle on the top (like a lunch box or sewing machine)
Moving the grill was just an experent, because I moved "Power" and "Reset" to the face (those two smaller rectangles in the black bar) but I might put the grill back on the face, and move the buttons up slightly.

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128 Reply by Teh D3th St4r

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NightRaven wrote:

Thats an awesome idea. Maybe you should push the screen just a little bit back (like about 2-3 cm) and leave the cartridge slot as it is originally (with the door on it). And it looks like if its gonna be an lcd, then you could add some this and that inside. Like modded outputs, speakers, a battery or whatnot. Your mods are insane, creative and full of nice ideas! Keep it up smile

I deleted the door and went with the frontloader design to save space inside and make it more reliable. This one is intended to be a portable/travel NES. It'll have a 4-5 hour battery life, and storage inside for controllers and a couple of games. There'll be a mono speaker and a headphone jack.

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