A colleague knowing my interest for video games gave me an old NES that collected dust at his place a few weeks ago. I got my original NES from back in the days left, never sold it to pay for the SNES, so I figured I should do something with this second NES I got.
I googled around for some inspiration, but I didn't find anything more interesting than how-to-change-the-red-power-diode-for-a-blue-one-guides, etc. So I screwed the NES apart and tried to figure something out on my own. Quite soon I realized there's a lot of air in that case, how about trying to make a slimmer, sexier NES out of it?
So, here we are, two days and about 15 hours of work later. Since this little project turned out very successful so far, it felt appropriate to brag a bit about it
All the materials I've used are taken from the donor NES, except for the orange cables connecting the RF box to the motherboard, and of course some cyanoacrylate glue that I used to attach the spacers for the motherboard (or whatever those are called in english) to the case. It's the darker grey thingies that the motherboard is attached to I'm talking about anyways
This is what I've done;
* Desoldered the RF box from the motherboard and connected it with wiring instead.
* Moved the the connector for the power/reset/power on diode daughterboard to the other side of the motherboard
* Opened up holes for power and reset buttons , power on diode (I had to move those to the side of the case), the different connectors on the RF box, and the controller connectors in the case.
* "Semi desoldered" a few electrolyte capacitors to be able to place them parallell with the motherboard. They extruded too much from the motherboard standing up.
* Removed and re-worked some the spacers from the darker grey bottom part of the case and glued them to the upper part, to be able to attach the motherboard, the RF box and the switch daughterboard.
* Re-worked the voltage regulator's cooler to make it lower.
* Disabled the lockout chip to be able to play my old import games.
* Modified the cartridge holder mechanism. Removed the springs and the locking mechanism. Now it works like a PCI connector or something like that, just push the game cart in.
* Miscelleaneos small modifications to get everything to fit in the case.
* Stuff I forgot to mention, I should have documented this project from the beginning :>
The only thing left to do now is the bottom plate. Once I get back aboard my ship (I'm a marine engineer) I'll make one out of plexi glass. It might be quite gay, but I'm considering to put a few red LED:s in the case, it should look quite nice with a red glow beneath the NES :>
Here are some pics, click the pics for better resolution;
From above:
http://www.ladda-upp.com/bilder/30005/nes-slim
From below:
http://www.ladda-upp.com/bilder/30006/nes-slim-2
In action (it's the uploading service that assumes that the horizontal resolution should be higher than the vertical):
http://www.ladda-upp.com/bilder/30007/nes-slim-3
[edit] Oh, and excuse my english :>
I googled around for some inspiration, but I didn't find anything more interesting than how-to-change-the-red-power-diode-for-a-blue-one-guides, etc. So I screwed the NES apart and tried to figure something out on my own. Quite soon I realized there's a lot of air in that case, how about trying to make a slimmer, sexier NES out of it?
So, here we are, two days and about 15 hours of work later. Since this little project turned out very successful so far, it felt appropriate to brag a bit about it
All the materials I've used are taken from the donor NES, except for the orange cables connecting the RF box to the motherboard, and of course some cyanoacrylate glue that I used to attach the spacers for the motherboard (or whatever those are called in english) to the case. It's the darker grey thingies that the motherboard is attached to I'm talking about anyways
This is what I've done;
* Desoldered the RF box from the motherboard and connected it with wiring instead.
* Moved the the connector for the power/reset/power on diode daughterboard to the other side of the motherboard
* Opened up holes for power and reset buttons , power on diode (I had to move those to the side of the case), the different connectors on the RF box, and the controller connectors in the case.
* "Semi desoldered" a few electrolyte capacitors to be able to place them parallell with the motherboard. They extruded too much from the motherboard standing up.
* Removed and re-worked some the spacers from the darker grey bottom part of the case and glued them to the upper part, to be able to attach the motherboard, the RF box and the switch daughterboard.
* Re-worked the voltage regulator's cooler to make it lower.
* Disabled the lockout chip to be able to play my old import games.
* Modified the cartridge holder mechanism. Removed the springs and the locking mechanism. Now it works like a PCI connector or something like that, just push the game cart in.
* Miscelleaneos small modifications to get everything to fit in the case.
* Stuff I forgot to mention, I should have documented this project from the beginning :>
The only thing left to do now is the bottom plate. Once I get back aboard my ship (I'm a marine engineer) I'll make one out of plexi glass. It might be quite gay, but I'm considering to put a few red LED:s in the case, it should look quite nice with a red glow beneath the NES :>
Here are some pics, click the pics for better resolution;
From above:
http://www.ladda-upp.com/bilder/30005/nes-slim
From below:
http://www.ladda-upp.com/bilder/30006/nes-slim-2
In action (it's the uploading service that assumes that the horizontal resolution should be higher than the vertical):
http://www.ladda-upp.com/bilder/30007/nes-slim-3
[edit] Oh, and excuse my english :>
