The perfect nes

willis82 · Jul 18, 2011

APE said: ↑

I've always been rather horrified at the thought of purposefully rendering one piece of hardware dead for a mod or other repair work. Be nice if I could score some dead PC-10 boards.
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using VS chips doesnt render anything dead. if I want to put duck hunt in a VS machine all I have to do is remove the ppu from the famicom. The chip is installed via an IC socket so removal is no different than from a VS board.

Bad_Ad84 · Jul 18, 2011

Now on hackaday too, why does this person need to post the fact hes soldered in a kit all over the internet?

I like the comment on hackaday:

It is the kit Johannes linked to.

I don’t think this should have been featured. We may argue over the definition of a “hack”, but I believe it includes freely sharing information and encouraging people to DIY, neither of which Dominic is doing. He says:

“Oh and for people looking to order the kit I build and make it themself good luck. The website is only in Japanese. The order form doesn’t have any mention of paypal. The kit instructions are all in japanese. And even if you’re smart enough to figure out the instructions, there’s a lot of very difficult soldering involved, I hope you enjoy surface mount soldering.”

Dominic has apparently figured out the kit instructions, but *isn’t* sharing; and discourages people from even trying:

“I’m not refusing the post a “how to” guide on this mod because I want more money for myself. I’m refusing to post these instructions because paying me to do this mod actually is cheaper and a better value than putting in the time and effort to do this mod yourself.”

Since only an individual can determine what their own time and effort is worth, that leaves only the following interpretations:

1) He really does want more money for his efforts (that’s ok, but only if you admit it).
2) He thinks we’re all idiots and will screw it up.
3) He wants to appear smarter by making it sound harder than it really is.

Not very nice. Neither is this:

“Luckily I have a hardware fix for this. I won’t say what it is but it will clean up the jailbars noticably.”

So what manner of supergenius proprietary hardware hackery has Dominic come up with that he is so reluctant to part with the information? He relents and reveals it two posts later:

“It’s nothing special it’s just a ceramic cap between a video line and ground.”

Wow, no one else could have figured that one out. What an arse.
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Taucias · Jul 25, 2011

It's shocking how much better the audio sounds with the mod. Amazing!

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