Famicom RGB mod - For That Most Beautiful Video Quality
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- This is a RGB mod for the original Famicom. The original Famicom only outputs RF signal and as all of you old retro gamers know, that's super low quality. But with this RGB mod you get the best quality, it becomes amazingly beautiful.
The mod itself is pretty easy, the hard part is desoldering the PPU and that can be very, very tricky.
Thanks for the video it's much appreciated. I just finished doing this exact same mod on this exact same console, and the directions on the original site where you buy the mod aren't exactly what I would call "detailed", so this video came in helpful SO many times.
Everything went great by the way but I'm still not finished with the console, I've gotta make the controllers detachable, and make the first player controller wireless. After that it'll finally be finished. It's by far the most demanding console mod I've done by a long shot but I love the way it looks and I'd rather have the Famicom on display instead of the VCR looking American NES.
Nice! Good luck with the upcoming mods :)
This is beautiful work my man👍👍👍 curious to know what your set up is what cables are you using? And what type of tv are you hooked into? Oh and are you using a scaler?
Thanks a lot! :) I'm using cables from retrogamingcables for all my consoles. I have a Sony PVM, OSSC and a gscartsw. So for an example, if I play the famicom, it goes trough the gscartsw and splits one way to the PVM and one way to the OSSC. So I can play on my PVM, the way I like it, but also record/stream at the same time on my computer. The setup took a while to get and also costs quite a bit, but well worth it!
Very nice work. You don't see a lot of the original Famicoms being RGB modded but how are you able to use NES controllers? Did you make that female cable for that Famicom?
Thanks DJ! Yes I did, I have a video of that too. Here’s the link :) ruclips.net/video/Nk1ozBHOKH8/видео.html
Hey bro! thanks for the video. Super helpful. Where is the RF/Power board from? It doesn't appear to be in the kit on the either website? I live in HK so they all have third party RF/Powerboards made to adapt the NTSC famicoms to PAL50! Thanks
The power/audio board comes with the kit from etim.
Hey friend. Did the mod came with the new power board? And the scart cable for the mini din-8 connector? Thanks
It comes with the new power board but not with a scart cable.
Nice job, just dis mine, your video helped me a lot. What kind of awg did you use? I’m getting some static in my image.
Nice to hear! I'm not entirely sure since AWG is not a standard in europe, but i think my wires are 0.2mm^2.
What kind of static do you have? My guess would be that your output cable is not top quality rather than the installation cables being to weak.
Or that a solder point may be bad.
And also, some static are just native to the console.
@@goldhagengaming thanks a lot for the reply. I finally found the source of the problem, it was the power supply I’ve bought at AliExpress which was generating DC noise. I was able to get it to work perfectly with another power supply (from a DC regulator), I still have to find a decent one to use in the future. I was quite sure it wasn’t my soldering or the scart cable (bought mine on retrogamingcables from UK it cost me a fortune). Thanks for your time answering and thanks again for the video, I’ve watched it quite a few times as I’ve went through my installation, getting that PPU out was a pain!! Take care
Where’d you get that nes to Famicom controller adapter???
Check put my other video explaining it:
ruclips.net/video/Nk1ozBHOKH8/видео.html
Nice one. It looks to me like your iron is set to a temperature that is too low. I also recommend you first heat the pad or leg for 1-2 second, and only then add solder, not to the iron tip but to the pad or leg itself, and for the bits that are harder than others, don't hesitate to use more flux.
@Djcalle , temp is 385C, so if anything is too hot :) Yep, that is the way to solder. And second yep, flux is always key even though it may not be any hard parts besides desoldering. A desoldering gun would have been neat.
@@goldhagengaming ok was just saying that because some of your solder joints don’t look the best (towards the end) maybe because you didn’t pre tin the pads, and you can also see your solder is just not melting right at some points like on the DC Jack, being larger pads they need more heat than what was given. Not having a go at you, just providing some feedback.
What's the power board?
can yo uplease link where you picked up the kit to do this mod ? i just picked up a famicom and would love to do this to it.
Absolutely, I bought mine from www.oldskoolconsoles.com, that ships from United Kingdom.
Depending on where you live you can check this out: etim.net.au/shop/shop.php?sc_page=105 to see which shop fits your location the best, good luck! :)
Are you using unleaded solder?
Yes I am. Since lead is toxic and I dont have sufficent ventilation for that im using unleaded solder even though the thing im soldering may have lead in it originally. Health comes first :)
I was only asking because of other comments saying the solder wasn't wetting very well and I know unleaded solder isn't very good have you thought about getting an extraction fan to use for leaded solder it's perfect for when you don't have sufficient ventilation?
@@foxracing742 Nah man, for me its just not worth it. Not only for the fumes since it can also be absorbed through the skin. I dont mind the higher melting point of unleaded.
@@foxracing742 Since 2018 leaded solder isn't legal to buy in Europe as a hobbyist. :(
@@StarfighterJohansson that's unfortunate
You can just make a adapter that plugs into the front of the famicom to use nes controllers www.amibay.com/showthread.php?82818-Famicom-Nes-controller-Adapter
Yep! That’s correct! It just depends on what you prefer :)