"aftermarket" Famicom power/RF board

Discussion in 'Modding and Hacking - Consoles and Electronics' started by DaveyPocket, Oct 25, 2017.

  1. DaveyPocket

    DaveyPocket Member

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    I opened a Famicom I recently received in the mail. The first thing I noticed was the lack of switches on the reverse side of the unit. I opened the unit and the power board appears to be different from what I have usually seen, no RF shielding either. Says "SANKO DENSHI" on the bottom side of the PCB. Has anyone seen a board like this?

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  2. darkspire17

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    if your FC has square buttons and a smooth base, then its an original release famicom, it may have different internals to the rerelease, or yours may be a latr board revision
     
  3. DaveyPocket

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    Not a square button Famicom. The main reasons I am concluding aftermarket:
    • Lack of RF shielding around majority of the circuit.
    • Lack of TV/Game and channel select switch.
    Also to note, the RF output connection is loose due to cold soldering connections.

    This could have been pulled from a Famiclone to fix this unit. I can go on-and-on with the speculations. Just curious if anyone had seen this particular board before.
     
  4. TriMesh

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    Yeah, looks aftermarket to me - probably a conversion to work with TVs that only had UHF tuners. At the least, I'm pretty certain it's not designed to work on the same ~100MHz the original Famicom RF board was - more like 500-600MHz based on the number of turns in the coils in the output stage. Also, the transistors being used are 2SC3358s, which have a 7GHz transition frequency and would be complete overkill for a VHF modulator.
     
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