Sometimes you stumble across a video and it's so good that you stop what you're doing and spend 15mins watching it. This is one of those videos. Subscribed :D
omg did anyone remember when he said there would be room in the original housing for this new loading mechanism. LOL in the age of the debut of the Nintendo classic Mini he remade an old NES into the size of a beta VCR! he accomplished his goal captain but at what cost... what cost!
Obviously he was intending this originally as well but it simply wouldn't fit. He explained along the way that often times things don't go exactly as originally designed because what looks good on paper doesn't always work out in the real world. This is the first video I've ever seen from this man so I'm not defending him because of loyalty or because I'm a fan but because he did a good job and didn't give up even when things didn't go exactly as planned. He showed a lot of skill, know how and adaptability and it was impressive to see everything involved in putting this together. Some people just have to find SOMETHING about EVERY little THING to complain about(such as my complaint about your comment ;)) He could have just given up when it wouldn't fit, but then you'd complain that he didn't finish.... As for your suggestion of a mod looking like an NES. Is this YOUR NES? No, its his and he can make it look however the hell he wants to, so what you and some others were "expecting" is irrelevant. Maybe he felt he had already put enough work into this mod so he decided to keep it simple?
stupaod While i agree with you he is very skilled in modding not just the nes but many other consoles. The main point at the beginning if you took the time to watch from part one was to just add a slot loading function to the console in the end although this was achieved its Not a iconic NES system is it when its in a White wooden box. He also has mentioned he has a 3D printer true that he cannot fit the new modded system in to the original NES console box so he could have made one using the 3D printer in the style of the original thus keeping the iconic look of the nes system and having the functionality of the slot loading system. True this is not my nes no im just voicing my own opinion the same as what Liam Davis has expressed. I have highlighted a few flaws in your comment so watch the videos before making a comment and hateing on people with valid opinions! I reiterate don't hate on people who wanted to see the original iconic system updated such comments are not helpful and contribute nothing to this discussion it only makes you sound like a troll.
This was a great build, but it would have been cooler if it looked like a classic NES on the sides. Maybe you can revisit this one day in a future episode? :D
Ben, my favorite part off the show is when you show some of the other projects,you're working on like the stop light computer or the pay phone Skype computerin the last ep. Please do more in the future!
6 years later and this is still really cool. I think the only thing I would have done differently is mounted the PCB underneath to make the console shorter. Amazing job.
I gotta say, some of the neatest modding to an NES I've ever seen! What a great way to show off an awesome console, and get a little envy around the neighborhood... I'd be lying if I said I wasn't envious as well :P
Man, this was awesome! This is a prototype for the past and even being so, i wouldn't mind having this one on my room. Actually, i would be proud of it in showing for my family and friends. Thanks for this nes series.
Great project and a very innovative way to solve the crap load issue of a NES. What a difference a few years makes though now all we have to do to fix the crap connector problem is pop in a blinking light win.
Great idea, no offence but the case design is a bit flawed, from what i can see you can modify the rear of the slot loader,( end closest to the board ) so you can basically fold the board under it saving a ton of space and making it a smaller case. also if you use smaller wheels on the loader it wouldnt have to be as wide either. Great prototype though. Love for the nintendo.
As always, an awesome project! I never had a NES (Master System for me as my best friend had a NES!) but I do remember how much of a pain it was with having to blow the dam cartridges all the time.
I just have to say, I am SOOOO glad I am not the only one using Radio Shack's cheap (but SO effective) desoldering iron. I have also used the blow-torch hack to get rid of solder clogging the vacuum tube. One day, I will own a Hakko rework/desoldering station, but until then, I will make do.
dude you are awesome my older bro is just like you he had built a mini arcade out of a Gameboy and has built a full Atari arcade but they are all none original parts of course but I was amazed and im shocked to see that people actually do this kinda stuff thumbs up.
For a second I thought he was going to change a drawer in his bedroom. Still, it makes me wanna get into this kinda thing and have my own workshop. Thanks Ben
Very well done sir. I loved this project! I think you should make a new one and try to fit all the components inside the original NES case, that would be amazing. Anyway, congratulations on the project, pretty cool.
going to be honest, this was kinda dissapointing. I was hoping for the original case or something modded to look nicer than the white stock, also it seems completely counter intuitive to triple the size of the system, add more parts prone to failing and make it look ugly just so your game gets spit out at you automatically. Cool idea just poorly done in the end.Perhaps you should revisit this with a snes or something.
yogibear2k10 While don't agree with what you said about how him just making toys is a bad thing, I do think that this project was totally useless and a waste of his time. I made an XBOX LAPTOP in one episode for christs sake, and it took him 3 whole episodes to make this ugly, hulking useless piece of crap? I am disappointed Ben...
This is the first ever video I've watched. While I don't come from a particularly tech-savvy background, I find the whole process almost majestic in the nature of bringing so many small parts together to work as a whole. (I don't think i phrased that last sentence correctly, but, oh well.) I have subscribed and liked ^_^ I hope to see much more from this and perhaps maybe even learn something XD
So you're actually proving my point for the SNES. Funny, that was the system that I was thinking off when I wrote this statement. However, I played it with Snes9x. You don't need cycle-accuracy to achieve the same look and feel for most games and I'm not talking about the few games that require special instructions or additionally emulated chipsets. I've been playing emulated 8 and 16bit console games on TV for years and barely ever felt emulated.
I can see why people are saying they don't see the point. I was under the impression that even with the stereo mod, all the NES games output mono anyhow? Also, if you disable the lockout chip you don't have to push the cartridge down anymore. While this isn't something I would do, I must say it's pretty cool and I really enjoyed watching the video. The end result was pretty awesome!
This man and his videos inspire and motivate me everyday to chase after the career of my dreams! Engineering (: . thanks you so much sir one day I will be building awesome stuff just like you !
Now what do you do if you want to play Duck Hunt? I've noticed the Light Gun only seems to work with a CRT. I was really hoping you could've gotten it to fit in the original case. It would've been a neat little "Ah ha!" to people thinking you just had a normal NES! Really neat though! I did like how you had the clear cover so you could display your handywork!
Congratulations Ben Heck for designing and building an automatic self-loading Nintendo NES. Of course I always hated their original keypad controllers, so I chose to replace them with Beeshu Jazz Stick joystick controllers.
if in the future you don't have enough time to make a very long episode I hope you can do one about modding a second generation NES for composite output, that one may be much less impressive than this one but from a practical view makes much more sense.
Please revisit this using the original case. It appeared that you would use it, seeing the first episode. Also... How about a remote controller to load/unload the cartridge like a VCR?
This is so cool! Wish Nintendo had the slot loader back in the days but the whole thing turned out to be pretty big. Must be expensive to make? No wonder Nintendo didn't go for it.
I really like the loading mechanism and overall what you did to that NES. Although I'm not impressed by the size of the final build, considering how big it turned out to be, I should have expected the power supply included inside the box, so at least you could have got rid of that ugly old AC adapter the NES uses. Congrats and thanks for sharing!
No, the idea was to make a slot loading Nintendo Game System - he stated he wanted to make it more like a VCR, which is what the front loading NES was made to look like. Despite having to basically make an entirely new console, he succeeded in the quest to make the NES like an actual VCR.
The most helpful advantage to the NES reset vector, is when your game runs on a score, or password. Then you can "protect" those parts of RAM, on a warm boot, by checking a part of RAM for corruption, only clearing it if the result is negative.
Hey Great video! Love how you can use brain smarts and create and invent new ideas for old school vintage consoles. Sure there are easier ways but you did a great job showing us this new console. Love it and thanks!
I'm a game collector, but I also almost exclusively play my games using emulators. You already listed the advantages. But still, I can understand why some people want to play on original hardware. I doubt there are a lot of people who will go like -"look, there's no shadow! F#%K THIS!", it's more about experience not the technical aspect, nostalgia factor. You take out your system, pick up familiar smell, set it up.. oh memories. :)
I just don't know what to make of all this stuff you do. It's all so pointless, yet so addictively interesting. You've created a dynasty out of having fun and providing information to the electronically-minded masses. I just hope that NASA has reached out to you to consult on future Rovers or other projects so that the nation can harness some of this genius too.
Great project! I understand by the end that the content would be too large for NES case. But I wonder why not use the NES case and modify that? Make it larger but still NES? If you fold the cable, would the pcb be able to be below it, so maybe just make it thicker? Add extra plastic at the seam? But I presume you already thought of that and it was simply too large overall.
probably 100 people have said this but why didn't you put the pcb on top of the mechanism and then mod the original case to fit? agh i see now why because you were so proud of the gripper mechanism you wanted it to be seen in the window which i don't blame you for it was a good piece of engineering well done.
I see so many haters in this channel and its ridiculous. Ben has spent three episode about the project because it was a cool idea and something he wanted to share with the audience. Lets talk about why the automatic loader its a good idea: 1. the standard Ninetendo manual loader was a piece of crap, and it was a flawed design because of the alignment. 2. The automatic loader that Ben has created was to save the trouble for us from loading the cartridge or slamming it down into the pins so we can hope the pins can read the cartridge or aligned properly. 3. The standard cartridge pin in the Ninetendo sometimes fail over period of time, so that is why Ben has made a bite down customized pin so it wont create friction or tear on the cartridge pin. However, I do agree with the audience about the customized design box is not the best looking one, but he designed the box to support the idea of the automatic loader/functionality. If you guys decided to criticize the man so much, why dont you design or make your own Ninetendo project so we can see what you can come up with?
This is amazzing- excellent work!! I love that you created the view window on the console :) what kind of TV were you playing super Mario on during the end of the segment? it looked amazing!
Ben, another excellent video and what a great idea for a self loading NES. Yes, the case for it is large but, unique in design. Would make a great addition to any system collectors collection. Are you considering on marketing/ making these for GAMERS who are interested in purchasing one of your Self loading NES systems? Always great videos..
Have you considered a jukebox styled disc based console custom build (what a mouthful). Materials best used (aesthetic purpose only), polished wood paneling, perspex and perhaps neon lighting highlighting the systems logo (orange swirl, green X, etc.).
Lol that case is hideous AF! Haha but I do love the concept and I think you executed it quite well and like how you learned from the second video to use ribbon cable instead of individual wires soldered to the cartridge pin connectors ;) You could have used the existing ZIF connector for the motherboard so it doesn’t have to be moved around with your slot loader mechanism because of the directly soldered connection but I guess this was more proof of concept and a second build you might be able to engineer all this inside the original case!
I think the controller ports should be on the front, like the original design. I'm not sure if they could fit, but it is hard to use on the side's rear.
> Most of them aren't. I dismiss generalization. Unless you have a statistic to prove your point... I'm also not talking about every emulator out there. My statement was a reply to someone claiming that NES-emulation wouldn't be the same as using the original console. I also limited it to 8 and 16bit emulators explicitly. The NES might be hard to emulate properly, yet what qualifies as hard? And what would you call proper emulation? There are plenty of NES-emus that do a great job.
Agreed. Not only the experience is not the same, but emulators are far from perfect, I'm talking about emulation in general. The reason for that is hardware. Back in the day emu devs provided only "basic" functionality, because emulating any system 100% would require a very VERY powerful machine. A lot of emulator devs today seeing how hardware had improved are changing direction for their projects and now trying to achieve Perfect Emulation.. and perfect emulation can make even i7 struggle. :)
This is fantastic. Think I might try and tackle this some day. In v2.0 of your project, you could easily fit it all into the original case. It appears that a slight redesign of the "clamp" system would allow it to fit the NES board underneath. Also, could you have split the original cartridge slot and used that with your clamp idea? Or perhaps connect your molex pins to that instead of printing a new board? Just some thoughts.
thx for the videos i love the auto loader. but i too feel it should be in its original case, the cool part is you would not suspect it. but now it looks like a home made x-box case. i still love the idea and how the auto loader worked so thx for the video : ).
Sometimes you stumble across a video and it's so good that you stop what you're doing and spend 15mins watching it. This is one of those videos. Subscribed :D
Really nice, man! But it would've been soooo much better if you'd managed to fit it into the original case!
omg did anyone remember when he said there would be room in the original housing for this new loading mechanism. LOL in the age of the debut of the Nintendo classic Mini he remade an old NES into the size of a beta VCR! he accomplished his goal captain but at what cost... what cost!
We were expecting the original nes case or even a modded looking nes case instead of the white stock one you made.
Obviously he was intending this originally as well but it simply wouldn't fit. He explained along the way that often times things don't go exactly as originally designed because what looks good on paper doesn't always work out in the real world. This is the first video I've ever seen from this man so I'm not defending him because of loyalty or because I'm a fan but because he did a good job and didn't give up even when things didn't go exactly as planned. He showed a lot of skill, know how and adaptability and it was impressive to see everything involved in putting this together.
Some people just have to find SOMETHING about EVERY little THING to complain about(such as my complaint about your comment ;))
He could have just given up when it wouldn't fit, but then you'd complain that he didn't finish....
As for your suggestion of a mod looking like an NES. Is this YOUR NES? No, its his and he can make it look however the hell he wants to, so what you and some others were "expecting" is irrelevant. Maybe he felt he had already put enough work into this mod so he decided to keep it simple?
He also said "I'm not gonna stop til it works, ERRRRR!"
stupaod While i agree with you he is very skilled in modding not just the nes but many other consoles.
The main point at the beginning if you took the time to watch from part one was to just add a slot loading function to the console in the end although this was achieved its Not a iconic NES system is it when its in a White wooden box.
He also has mentioned he has a 3D printer true that he cannot fit the new modded system in to the original NES console box so he could have made one using the 3D printer in the style of the original thus keeping the iconic look of the nes system and having the functionality of the slot loading system.
True this is not my nes no im just voicing my own opinion the same as what Liam Davis has expressed.
I have highlighted a few flaws in your comment so watch the videos before making a comment and hateing on people with valid opinions!
I reiterate don't hate on people who wanted to see the original iconic system updated such comments are not helpful and contribute nothing to this discussion it only makes you sound like a troll.
I know, it just would of fit better as the case was modded out into a custom size nes console that would of kept a retro yet modern feel.
This was a great build, but it would have been cooler if it looked like a classic NES on the sides. Maybe you can revisit this one day in a future episode? :D
Ben, my favorite part off the show is when you show some of the other projects,you're working on like the stop light computer or the pay phone Skype computerin the last ep. Please do more in the future!
I've always loved Ben Heck's projects, but this one put a ridiculously large smile on my face. :)
6 years later and this is still really cool. I think the only thing I would have done differently is mounted the PCB underneath to make the console shorter. Amazing job.
Dude that custom console is just awesome! Give it a paintjob like the original NES and you're gold.
I gotta say, some of the neatest modding to an NES I've ever seen! What a great way to show off an awesome console, and get a little envy around the neighborhood... I'd be lying if I said I wasn't envious as well :P
Man, this was awesome! This is a prototype for the past and even being so, i wouldn't mind having this one on my room. Actually, i would be proud of it in showing for my family and friends.
Thanks for this nes series.
That thing is utterly ridiculous overkill to fix a fairly minor set of issues. I LOVE IT
Great project and a very innovative way to solve the crap load issue of a NES. What a difference a few years makes though now all we have to do to fix the crap connector problem is pop in a blinking light win.
those 15 mins flew by so quick! I love watching these types of videos
Great idea, no offence but the case design is a bit flawed, from what i can see you can modify the rear of the slot loader,( end closest to the board ) so you can basically fold the board under it saving a ton of space and making it a smaller case. also if you use smaller wheels on the loader it wouldnt have to be as wide either. Great prototype though. Love for the nintendo.
Yeah - that project was a pain! I was glad it worked! :)
The Ben Heck Show your NES case kinda ended up looking like a flux capacitor, cool :D
+The Ben Heck Show Game Genie not compatible.
This all seems easy enough , all I need is a CNC machine and a new brain!
I am so jealous of (a) the Nintendo and (b) the talent involved to create such wonderful toys.
As always, an awesome project! I never had a NES (Master System for me as my best friend had a NES!) but I do remember how much of a pain it was with having to blow the dam cartridges all the time.
I had a blast watching the nes project video,great design and great what you did with the nes makeing it a automatic loader.
Ben, your creations are reallllly cool.
Lawl...
Is better now with the audio in the right spots.
I love whoever uploads these videos, every new episode is a easter egg hunt for errors XD
I just have to say, I am SOOOO glad I am not the only one using Radio Shack's cheap (but SO effective) desoldering iron. I have also used the blow-torch hack to get rid of solder clogging the vacuum tube.
One day, I will own a Hakko rework/desoldering station, but until then, I will make do.
Amazing. Didn't understand putting the controller ports on the side but this guy's a smart cookie.. I dare not disrespect!!!
Are you going to modify this to include kevtris' HDMI output board for the NES?
no
Ben, after all this effort, you didn´t think in put the power supply inside this big NES ? XD , great job, it´s always fun watch you working.
That would hear up the insides
dude you are awesome my older bro is just like you he had built a mini arcade out of a Gameboy and has built a full Atari arcade but they are all none original parts of course but I was amazed and im shocked to see that people actually do this kinda stuff thumbs up.
you seem to have great mods for things,can't wait to see more video of your ben.
For a second I thought he was going to change a drawer in his bedroom.
Still, it makes me wanna get into this kinda thing and have my own workshop.
Thanks Ben
Great show. Wish i could buy some of these finished products.
Very well done sir. I loved this project! I think you should make a new one and try to fit all the components inside the original NES case, that would be amazing. Anyway, congratulations on the project, pretty cool.
going to be honest, this was kinda dissapointing. I was hoping for the original case or something modded to look nicer than the white stock, also it seems completely counter intuitive to triple the size of the system, add more parts prone to failing and make it look ugly just so your game gets spit out at you automatically. Cool idea just poorly done in the end.Perhaps you should revisit this with a snes or something.
Don't be jelly.
yogibear2k10 You mad bro?
yogibear2k10 While don't agree with what you said about how him just making toys is a bad thing, I do think that this project was totally useless and a waste of his time. I made an XBOX LAPTOP in one episode for christs sake, and it took him 3 whole episodes to make this ugly, hulking useless piece of crap? I am disappointed Ben...
Sage Moore I don't think its like that at all. I like it and I want it.
CoyotepeltPlays I respect your opinion. I feel like he overdid it a little bit.
This is the first ever video I've watched. While I don't come from a particularly tech-savvy background, I find the whole process almost majestic in the nature of bringing so many small parts together to work as a whole. (I don't think i phrased that last sentence correctly, but, oh well.)
I have subscribed and liked ^_^ I hope to see much more from this and perhaps maybe even learn something XD
You are a genius engineer.
its more then 3 times the size now though.Too bad you couldn't fit it in the orig case.
It is not just game, it is the experience.
You have turned it into a beast!
loved the Twilight Zone thing. Awesome show. Great work with that NES.
This channel proofes that nothing is impossible
So you're actually proving my point for the SNES. Funny, that was the system that I was thinking off when I wrote this statement. However, I played it with Snes9x. You don't need cycle-accuracy to achieve the same look and feel for most games and I'm not talking about the few games that require special instructions or additionally emulated chipsets. I've been playing emulated 8 and 16bit console games on TV for years and barely ever felt emulated.
I wish I was nerdy enough to truly appreciate this...
if i had a CNC/Laser/3D printer i would make so many things like this.
build a 3d printer then :P
ankzmoviez Would be so much easier to just print one....
5 years later, do you have one? You better....
I can see why people are saying they don't see the point. I was under the impression that even with the stereo mod, all the NES games output mono anyhow? Also, if you disable the lockout chip you don't have to push the cartridge down anymore. While this isn't something I would do, I must say it's pretty cool and I really enjoyed watching the video. The end result was pretty awesome!
This man and his videos inspire and motivate me everyday to chase after the career of my dreams! Engineering (: . thanks you so much sir one day I will be building awesome stuff just like you !
Now what do you do if you want to play Duck Hunt? I've noticed the Light Gun only seems to work with a CRT. I was really hoping you could've gotten it to fit in the original case. It would've been a neat little "Ah ha!" to people thinking you just had a normal NES! Really neat though! I did like how you had the clear cover so you could display your handywork!
Sweet seriess ^^ that hand made slot loading system rocks!
Congratulations Ben Heck for designing and building an automatic self-loading Nintendo NES. Of course I always hated their original keypad controllers, so I chose to replace them with Beeshu Jazz Stick joystick controllers.
if in the future you don't have enough time to make a very long episode I hope you can do one about modding a second generation NES for composite output, that one may be much less impressive than this one but from a practical view makes much more sense.
So much for putting it into the original case.
Please revisit this using the original case. It appeared that you would use it, seeing the first episode.
Also... How about a remote controller to load/unload the cartridge like a VCR?
Ben, you gotta remake this!
Get a Blinking Light Win cart slot mod
Too much talent man.. Kudos to you!
This was a very neat project! Although it's like 3 times the size of the original size! ;)
This is so cool! Wish Nintendo had the slot loader back in the days but the whole thing turned out to be pretty big. Must be expensive to make? No wonder Nintendo didn't go for it.
thats awesome... you should post a video of turning a old console into
a hand held system
I really like the loading mechanism and overall what you did to that NES.
Although I'm not impressed by the size of the final build, considering how big it turned out to be, I should have expected the power supply included inside the box, so at least you could have got rid of that ugly old AC adapter the NES uses.
Congrats and thanks for sharing!
that was awesome you are such a great engineer for sure now that's what I call refit of the new times :)
Thanks John!
That's badass. You should totally make something like MODDEDbyBACTERIA's Project Unity, but using that cartridge interface.
No, the idea was to make a slot loading Nintendo Game System - he stated he wanted to make it more like a VCR, which is what the front loading NES was made to look like. Despite having to basically make an entirely new console, he succeeded in the quest to make the NES like an actual VCR.
The most helpful advantage to the NES reset vector, is when your game runs on a score, or password. Then you can "protect" those parts of RAM, on a warm boot, by checking a part of RAM for corruption, only clearing it if the result is negative.
Hey Great video! Love how you can use brain smarts and create and invent new ideas for old school vintage consoles. Sure there are easier ways but you did a great job showing us this new console. Love it and thanks!
I'm a game collector, but I also almost exclusively play my games using emulators. You already listed the advantages.
But still, I can understand why some people want to play on original hardware. I doubt there are a lot of people who will go like -"look, there's no shadow! F#%K THIS!", it's more about experience not the technical aspect, nostalgia factor. You take out your system, pick up familiar smell, set it up.. oh memories. :)
Do you havea full build video of the traffic signal computer? I would like to see it in the making and working!
Great job! That was brilliant! Wish I had one...
I just don't know what to make of all this stuff you do. It's all so pointless, yet so addictively interesting. You've created a dynasty out of having fun and providing information to the electronically-minded masses. I just hope that NASA has reached out to you to consult on future Rovers or other projects so that the nation can harness some of this genius too.
Great project! I understand by the end that the content would be too large for NES case. But I wonder why not use the NES case and modify that? Make it larger but still NES? If you fold the cable, would the pcb be able to be below it, so maybe just make it thicker? Add extra plastic at the seam?
But I presume you already thought of that and it was simply too large overall.
This is even cooler than that NES that was converted into a DVD player! Are you gonna color it?
probably 100 people have said this but why didn't you put the pcb on top of the mechanism and then mod the original case to fit? agh i see now why because you were so proud of the gripper mechanism you wanted it to be seen in the window which i don't blame you for it was a good piece of engineering well done.
I see so many haters in this channel and its ridiculous. Ben has spent three episode about the project because it was a cool idea and something he wanted to share with the audience. Lets talk about why the automatic loader its a good idea:
1. the standard Ninetendo manual loader was a piece of crap, and it was a flawed design because of the alignment.
2. The automatic loader that Ben has created was to save the trouble for us from loading the cartridge or slamming it down into the pins so we can hope the pins can read the cartridge or aligned properly.
3. The standard cartridge pin in the Ninetendo sometimes fail over period of time, so that is why Ben has made a bite down customized pin so it wont create friction or tear on the cartridge pin.
However, I do agree with the audience about the customized design box is not the best looking one, but he designed the box to support the idea of the automatic loader/functionality.
If you guys decided to criticize the man so much, why dont you design or make your own Ninetendo project so we can see what you can come up with?
This is amazzing- excellent work!! I love that you created the view window on the console :) what kind of TV were you playing super Mario on during the end of the segment? it looked amazing!
I dunno how you do this, but it's cool!
And after this huge project, Ben decided to make everyrhing portable.
Great job Ben
can you make Wireless controllers for the NES?
Those already exist.
Awesome work. I want to do this with one of mine, however I would also integrate a 4score so 4 player games can be played :)
I wish I could take this back in time with me to give to my younger self.
Ben, another excellent video and what a great idea for a self loading NES. Yes, the case for it is large but, unique in design. Would make a great addition to any system collectors collection. Are you considering on marketing/ making these for GAMERS who are interested in purchasing one of your Self loading NES systems? Always great videos..
Have you considered a jukebox styled disc based console custom build (what a mouthful). Materials best used (aesthetic purpose only), polished wood paneling, perspex and perhaps neon lighting highlighting the systems logo (orange swirl, green X, etc.).
Lol that case is hideous AF! Haha but I do love the concept and I think you executed it quite well and like how you learned from the second video to use ribbon cable instead of individual wires soldered to the cartridge pin connectors ;) You could have used the existing ZIF connector for the motherboard so it doesn’t have to be moved around with your slot loader mechanism because of the directly soldered connection but I guess this was more proof of concept and a second build you might be able to engineer all this inside the original case!
happy 69th episode ben. always knew it would happen
this is so cool you got your self a well earned sub!
Can't you make detailed write ups for these projects? Or design templates? I have no idea where to buy friction wheels as well.
Fantastic work!
Very very cool. How much would u charge to do that to my console?? Or would u sell the one you just completed??
I think the controller ports should be on the front, like the original design. I'm not sure if they could fit, but it is hard to use on the side's rear.
Great mod! I also do mods on my channel ( probably not as good as these) but, I am working on getting better with more experience.
> Most of them aren't.
I dismiss generalization. Unless you have a statistic to prove your point...
I'm also not talking about every emulator out there. My statement was a reply to someone claiming that NES-emulation wouldn't be the same as using the original console. I also limited it to 8 and 16bit emulators explicitly.
The NES might be hard to emulate properly, yet what qualifies as hard? And what would you call proper emulation? There are plenty of NES-emus that do a great job.
That is amazing you are the best at making things
Agreed.
Not only the experience is not the same, but emulators are far from perfect, I'm talking about emulation in general. The reason for that is hardware.
Back in the day emu devs provided only "basic" functionality, because emulating any system 100% would require a very VERY powerful machine. A lot of emulator devs today seeing how hardware had improved are changing direction for their projects and now trying to achieve Perfect Emulation.. and perfect emulation can make even i7 struggle. :)
many people hate yet have gravity ,Ben . don't worry . you are not the only one.
Dude, you're a genius!!!
As for changes to the show.. the haircut's a pretty good one.
you might have won the guiness world record for biggest 8-bit games console.
Just found this show. Good shit.
Nice idea!!! Congratulations
This would be cooler if you put some LEDs in there that light up when a game is inserted! Would go nicely with the transparent window you put on it.
Damn it. This is the kind of show that SHOULD have been on networks like G4.
How much does your slot loader weigh compare to the unaltered NES console? It appears considerably larger.
This is fantastic. Think I might try and tackle this some day. In v2.0 of your project, you could easily fit it all into the original case. It appears that a slight redesign of the "clamp" system would allow it to fit the NES board underneath. Also, could you have split the original cartridge slot and used that with your clamp idea? Or perhaps connect your molex pins to that instead of printing a new board? Just some thoughts.
thx for the videos i love the auto loader. but i too feel it should be in its original case, the cool part is you would not suspect it. but now it looks like a home made x-box case. i still love the idea and how the auto loader worked so thx for the video : ).