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American McGay posted:I'm pretty sure you're just joking and I'm not sure how long you've lurked Imp Zone but Uncle at Nintendo once changed the sound chip in his brother-in-law's NES without his permission while he was out walking his dog. lmfao
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hahahahahahahaha back a few years ago he posted in the retro games thread that he figured out the vertical bar fix for the snes (this was something people were trying to figure out a fix for for years so it was a pretty big deal/discovery) and on some televisions, mine included, the vertical bar was so bad that instead of it just being a minor brightness difference like for most people, it was a full blown neon green color for me(gently caress samsung tvs). anyway I pmed him asking him how much he would charge to fix my snes 2. and he said he didnt like charging money but if i sent a package of cat food to an animal shelter near his home he would do it for free. not only did he send my snes jr back with the vertical bar issue fixed, without me asking he added a natively mounted s-video port, a purple power on LED (the snes 2 has no power status LED for nintendo cheapness reasons I guess??), wired it up for RGB even though i have no way to play it in RGB, and even added an optical audio port. i've yet to get any weird mail or pizza deliveries sent to my house so he's good people in my book. it definitely cost more in parts alone than the value of the food i sent, which seems counterproductive but whatever. the optical audio mod, which i figured had to be a stupid gimmick, was such a huge difference in sound when i tried it that i can never go back to the regular red and white cables ever again. it sounds better than CD somehow.
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do u know jenny posted:anyway I pmed him asking him how much he would charge to fix my snes jr. and he said he didnt like charging money but if i sent a package of cat food to an animal shelter near his home he would do it for free. not only did he send my snes jr back with the vertical bar issue fixed, without me asking he added a natively mounted s-video port, a purple power on LED (the snes jr has no power status LED for nintendo cheapness reasons I guess??), wired it up for RGB even though i have no way to play it in RGB, and even added an optical audio port. for anyone who doesnt want to read all the words heres the funny part
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do u know jenny posted:anyway I pmed him asking him how much he would charge to fix my snes 2. and he said he didnt like charging money but if i sent a package of cat food to an animal shelter near his home he would do it for free. not only did he send my snes jr back with the vertical bar issue fixed, without me asking he added a natively mounted s-video port, a purple power on LED (the snes 2 has no power status LED for nintendo cheapness reasons I guess??), wired it up for RGB even though i have no way to play it in RGB, and even added an optical audio port.
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a Loving Dog posted:for anyone who doesnt want to read all the words heres the funny part Thanks ALD.
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Uncle at Nintendo mods these consoles for free, he's way underwater right now. You gotta give
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do u know jenny posted:hahahahahahahaha hes a saint
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do u know jenny posted:hahahahahahahaha Awesome interaction
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Uncle at Nintendo mods these consoles for free, he's way underwater right now. You gotta give
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do u know jenny posted:hahahahahahahaha this rules
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Is there a mod I can do to my nes to disable the piracy lockout chip so my games will start without hours of fiddling to find exactly the right cartridge position?
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Caithness posted:Is there a mod I can do to my nes to disable the piracy lockout chip so my games will start without hours of fiddling to find exactly the right cartridge position? yeah http://www.retrofixes.com/2013/07/disabling-nintendo-lock-out-chips.html
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Caithness posted:Is there a mod I can do to my nes to disable the piracy lockout chip so my games will start without hours of fiddling to find exactly the right cartridge position? You can but you might as well just replace the cartridge connector instead
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Caithness posted:Is there a mod I can do to my nes to disable the piracy lockout chip so my games will start without hours of fiddling to find exactly the right cartridge position? Yes but it involves snipping a piece Someone on these forums, like 10 years ago, recommended me something that worked really well, basically if you have a toaster NES you can remove the connector piece and go in with a small flathead screwdriver and physically bend each of the connectors upward slightly. after decades of use they tend to get flattened and don't make good contact, and that + dirty cartridges is the primary cause of needing to fiddle with it. That has worked wonders They also recommended using Brasso to clean the cartridge connectors and there's some debate about how healthy it is for the cartridge but I'll tell you from experience that that poo poo works. You take a tiny(!!) amount on a q-tip and scrub the contacts of the cartridge vigorously and you will see an unbelievable amount of gunk come off of contacts that otherwise look clean. I've brought back completely corroded cartridges using that stuff and it's amazing how much poo poo you can get off with it. Stuff I cleaned a decade ago still works flawlessly. I would usually go over it again with a little high concentration alcohol (70%+) to take off any remaining Brasso and that's kept me going for a long time now
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Replacing the cart connector really doesn't do much, plus a lot of them are really lovely. If you really want to you can no joke boil the 72 pin adapter in a pot of water and it will make the pins tight again, plus you get to keep your original Nintendo-made one instead of some crappy 3rd party one. It's really just a matter of opening the NES and cutting a single pin, seen here:  Just cut that pin and all your games will work again, and I bet without even touching the cart connector. The pin is a little cramped and can be tough to cut, so I would recommend a tool like this:  The are called "flush cutters" and are as little as $4 shipped on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/393804047677 FWIW I've never seen an NES that didn't get fixed by doing that. I don't think I've ever had to replace the cart connector on one.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Uncle at Nintendo mods these consoles for free, he's way underwater right now. You gotta give
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elf help book posted:hes a saint
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i just rammed and pulled the pin with a tiny glasses screwdriver until it broke off. i also got one of those blinking light win non-ZIF cartridge connectors that make it so i almost need a pair of pliers to get cartridges out but makes them work otherwise flawlessly if the connector is clean
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ram it with a screwdriver fuc k pin 4 up the rear end destroy that bitch until it cant tell real from fake
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elf help book posted:ram it with a screwdriver fuc k pin 4 up the rear end destroy that bitch until it cant tell real from fake
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Leave it alone for a couple of weeks and it'll fix itself.
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Replacing the cart connector really doesn't do much, plus a lot of them are really lovely. If you really want to you can no joke boil the 72 pin adapter in a pot of water and it will make the pins tight again, plus you get to keep your original Nintendo-made one instead of some crappy 3rd party one. 
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sending a game gear into Uncle at Nintendo and finding that he has modded it so completely, it's now a Game Boy Advance
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elf help book posted:ram it with a screwdriver fuc k pin 4 up the rear end destroy that bitch until it cant tell real from fake lmao
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elf help book posted:ram it with a screwdriver fuc k pin 4 up the rear end destroy that bitch until it cant tell real from fake
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It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself. lol
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself. Lol
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself. lmao
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Raspberry Pi
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Sub-Actuality posted:Raspberry Pi Lol
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Leave it alone for a couple of weeks and it'll fix itself. lol
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Pablo Nergigante posted:It's over... I've modded everything. Now it's time for the final mod... myself. pablo the 'tendo man
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Sub-Actuality posted:Raspberry Pi lol
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 Someone mentioned the Burger King Pokémon toys and it instantly brought me back to being 7 years old. Every Tuesday night my local Burger King would have a trading night, where you’d go and trade your Pokémon toys with one another. My absolute favorites were Geodude, Hitmonlee, and Muk. I liked the keychains because my dad would just unscrew the keychain part for me and it would function as a normal little action figure. One night in an inexplicable deal I instantly regretted I traded both Geodude and Muk for a launcher Taurus. I was so caught up in the moment thinking about how it looked like he was really stampeding that I gave up two of my three most prized possessions. I didn’t even like Taurus. I’ll never get over how bad of a deal that was.
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