The upgraded nes

Drakon · **Posted:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 6:23 pm

I already posted this in the nes section but I guess I'll repost here.

Current specs on my improved system:

Outputs clean rgb, s-video, composite video from the multi av jack on the back (uses ntsc snes av cables)

Has an audio circuit that increases the bass and creates pseudo stereo sound. Also properly mixes in the audio from japanese games that have advanced audio chips.

Has a chip swapped that makes the powerpak run on the system. Has the nes to famicom adapter modded to included the extended audio from the powerpak mixed into the system audio circuit. Nes to famicom adapter is modded to support 100% of nes games.

System is a top loader and is region free

internal pics:

all put back together:

Some demo videos

Information on how I built this can be found here:

http://forums.modretro.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=7462&start=10

zeturi · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:06 pm

The video output looks beautiful, and the audio has a definite difference. I may do the same to my own older style nes, as well as a few other mods.

Drakon · **Posted:** Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:06 pm

zeturi wrote:

The video output looks beautiful, and the audio has a definite difference. I may do the same to my own older style nes, as well as a few other mods.

Thanks a lot! I did these mods on a nes first but the video output had jailbar interference that was really annoying. The av famicom has an improved pcb which cleans up jailbar interference. That's why my second mod was done on the av famicom.

Here's what jailbar interference can look like:

I got my rgb nes to look better than this picture but no matter how good I got it the rgb av famicom always looked 10x better.

bentomo · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:13 pm

The music just sounds amazing! Nice job I like it.

Drakon · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:15 pm

bentomo wrote:

The music just sounds amazing! Nice job I like it.

thanks a lot! Here's some pics of how the system looks on a flat screen.

Through a xrgb 3:

straight into the tv:

zeturi · **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:52 pm

Absolutely beautiful.

Drakon · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:13 pm

zeturi wrote:

Absolutely beautiful.

Thanks a lot!

Here's a captured video of me playing some classic games on my powerpak on the highly upgraded system:

J.D · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:20 pm

Wow, that is incredibly awesome. I also wasn't aware they made a sequel to D-Pad Hero, I'll have to check that out. And the vs. Excitebike game has some awesome music

Drakon · **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:59 pm

J.D wrote:

Wow, that is incredibly awesome. I also wasn't aware they made a sequel to D-Pad Hero, I'll have to check that out. And the vs. Excitebike game has some awesome music

Yeah it's pretty cool being able to play lots of hidden gems that were released on cheap media that only came out in japan. I found another game that's not rgb compatible...qix. Oh well... A few games are buggy on the powerpak but none of the buggy games were really that great. And yeah d-pad hero 1 has a terrible system d-pad hero 2 is much better. Although clearing expert has way too many challenges for me to bother getting through.

I'm glad people here are embracing these mods. When I posted my first rgb nes here all I got were insults and being accused of soldering wires to a rare rgb ppu chip even though in the pictures you could see that the ppu was sitting in a socket. I was even told that using lots of hot glue was going to cause a short circuit in my system....

.....it has yet to short circuit

Drakon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:41 pm

Anyway enough anger posts. Here's a screenshot from a different client who I did a commission for:

The upgraded nes

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