SwampFox56

This depends entirely on what you're looking for people to answer. Are we talking about the PS2 and PS3 from a technical standpoint? Marketing standpoint? Game library standpoint? Etc. If we talk about the PS2 vs PS3 from a technical standpoint - obviously the PS3 is better. If we talk about the PS2 and PS3 from a marketing standpoint - obviously the PS2 is better. This question has a lot of variables, so I'll just rate the systems on the amount of time I spent playing that particular system. In my opinion, the PlayStation 2 is far better than the PlayStation 3. Simply because I enjoyed playing the system more. It's as simple as that.

Me as well Anyways, I did get one of the kits, but the order wasn't confirmed until this morning (which I why I said nothing). I'll PM you shortly. Just for the service? (As in, no parts, etc) - I imagine that I'll be charging $70ish. That price isn't finalized however and is subject to change whenever I feel like it.

Well you say that, but I have a crap-load of games that I keep thinking to myself "You know what? I need to sit down and play this someday. I've always wanted too..." I take it off my shelf, open up the case, maybe fiddle with the manual a bit... Then I look back at the empty space on my shelf. This lonely, one space that isn't occupied. It's almost sad... So then I put it back on the shelf and everything looks great again... Maybe I just enjoy looking at video games more than I enjoy playing them.

Yup Shorting pin 3 and pin 9 together allows Famicom games played on the NES to use "Expansion Audio". Only problem, is the fact that grabbing Expansion Audio from pin 3 of the expansion port tends to make the expanded channels greatly overpower regular audio. People suggest putting a 47K resistor there, but I've personally found that 10K works much better overall. If you really want to fine tune the audio, you could simply wire a 50K pot to pin 3 and 9 and adjust on a 'per-game' basis. But that's pretty much overkill. I recommend 10K's of resistance between the two pins.

This was a response that I originally posted here, but decided to turn into it's own thread. I talked to my dad recently and he agreed to write up all of his memorable experiences working with Nintendo, Atari, Sony, and Sega during his tenure at Nebraska Furniture Mart - if such a topic gained enough interest. So here's the likely skewed version of the all the stories he's told me over the past 20 years. I specifically would like him to explain Sega's DreamCast marketing strategy - which is THE REASON why the DreamCast failed. It's a compelling story and I'd love for him to write it up, but he doesn't want to do it unless people are actually interested in such a topic. And thus, this thread was born... To persuade my dad into writing up all of his experiences working with the video game moguls of the 1990's. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted Today, 6:49 PM Hyper_Eye, on 01 Jul 2016 - 10:24 AM, said: My dad actually worked at the largest furniture store in the United States when the Atari Jaguar came out (In fact, where my dad worked (Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha) is still one of the largest retail stores in the US). I don't remember his job title exactly, but he was in charge of stocking all the items in the Electronic, Stereo, and TV section of the store. Meaning he would order items directly from the manufacturers, and decided what got stocked in the store. He told me stories of when the PlayStation and N64 came out. He said that they'd receive them, literally stack the boxes to the ceiling of the store, and everyday they were ALWAYS sold out of PlayStations, and usually sold out of Nintendo 64's. He also told me another funny story about how he made a mistake when he first started working there. He was new to the job, and was placing orders from Sega for Genesis-related items (i.e Controllers, RF and A/V cables, AC adapters, and Games). He told me how he placed a huge order from Sega for all the items listed above, in preparation for Christmas (which was in 2 or 3 months or something like that). Anyways, he forgot to tell Sega that he wanted all of these Genesis games, controllers, etc delivered to him in the middle of November... not immediately. The way he tells the story is that a week later the CEO of the company came to him and was livid! Asking my dad why the store had hundreds of boxes, filled with literally thousands of Genesis peripherals and games. My dad said to his boss that he must of made a mistake. He claims that he could tell his boss came in there to fire him. But he was able to talk his way out of it, and explained to his boss that he simply made a mistake. He also claims that his boss thought they'd never sell anywhere near the amount of merchandise he ordered. Funny thing was - by the time Black Friday came around that year - all the overstock they had from that accidental Sega over-purchase was long gone. After his boss realized just how quickly the store sold all the Sega overstock they had - he promoted my dad and put him in charge of stocking the entire store. -------------------------------- I kind of forgot this was about the Atari Jaguar... My dad's Jaguar story is less interesting. But, when Atari released the Jaguar; my dad said that the systems would ONLY SELL when they had DOOM in stock. If people could buy Doom and a Jaguar, they'd buy the system. If they couldn't buy Doom, nobody would buy the Jaguar. Pretty quickly after Atari released the Jaguar, my dad said that it stopped selling and they were selling the system NEW for $35 bundled with 4 new games for the system. My dad says that at the time, he really considered buying one for that cheap of a price. He said that near the end of the Jaguar's life-span, he decided he'd buy one on his way out of the office that day. So he brought it up to the counter, and went to grab a copy of Doom. Well the store didn't have any at this point and they were never going to be restocked either. So he said that because he couldn't buy Doom with the Jaguar, he decided not to buy the system. Years later, it turns out that boxed Jaguar systems sell for a couple grand on eBay... Whenever I talk to my father about video game collecting, this business I'm running, or something along those lines; and I mention anything Atari - he ALWAYS says to me "Damn it Zeke... I should have bought that Jaguar..." --------------------------------------- My dad has several other GREAT stories about the video game industry between 1993 and late-1999. I'd love to share his story about the DreamCast. That story is mind-boggling and it explains exactly why the DreamCast failed. But this has already gotten too long, so that's a story for another time (In fact, if I can, I'd actually love to get my dad to write up that story up himself. He could tell it better than I ever could. Or post a video on YouTube, as a kind of... "For the record" type of deal. Just to document why the DreamCast failed even though the systems always sold out.

My dad actually worked at the largest furniture store in the United States when the Atari Jaguar came out (In fact, where my dad worked (Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha) is still one of the largest retail stores in the US). I don't remember his job title exactly, but he was in charge of stocking all the items in the Electronic, Stereo, and TV section of the store. Meaning he would order items directly from the manufacturers, and decided what got stocked in the store. He told me stories of when the PlayStation and N64 came out. He said that they'd receive them, literally stack the boxes to the ceiling of the store, and everyday they were ALWAYS sold out of PlayStations, and usually sold out of Nintendo 64's. He also told me another funny story about how he made a mistake when he first started working there. He was new to the job, and was placing orders from Sega for Genesis-related items (i.e Controllers, RF and A/V cables, AC adapters, and Games). He told me how he placed a huge order from Sega for all the items listed above, in preparation for Christmas (which was in 2 or 3 months or something like that). Anyways, he forgot to tell Sega that he wanted all of these Genesis games, controllers, etc delivered to him in the middle of November... not immediately. The way he tells the story is that a week later the CEO of the company came to him and was livid! Asking my dad why the store had hundreds of boxes, filled with literally thousands of Genesis peripherals and games. My dad said to his boss that he must of made a mistake. He claims that he could tell his boss came in there to fire him. But he was able to talk his way out of it, and explained to his boss that he simply made a mistake. He also claims that his boss thought they'd never sell anywhere near the amount of merchandise he ordered. Funny thing was - by the time Black Friday came around that year - all the overstock they had from that accidental Sega over-purchase was long gone. After his boss realized just how quickly the store sold all the Sega overstock they had - he promoted my dad and put him in charge of stocking the entire store. -------------------------------- I kind of forgot this was about the Atari Jaguar... My dad's Jaguar story is less interesting. But, when Atari released the Jaguar; my dad said that the systems would ONLY SELL when they had DOOM in stock. If people could buy Doom and a Jaguar, they'd buy the system. If they couldn't buy Doom, nobody would buy the Jaguar. Pretty quickly after Atari released the Jaguar, my dad said that it stopped selling and they were selling the system NEW for $35 bundled with 4 new games for the system. My dad says that at the time, he really considered buying one for that cheap of a price. He said that near the end of the Jaguar's life-span, he decided he'd buy one on his way out of the office that day. So he brought it up to the counter, and went to grab a copy of Doom. Well the store didn't have any at this point and they were never going to be restocked either. So he said that because he couldn't buy Doom with the Jaguar, he decided not to buy the system. Years later, it turns out that boxed Jaguar systems sell for a couple grand on eBay... Whenever I talk to my father about video game collecting, this business I'm running, or something along those lines; and I mention anything Atari - he ALWAYS says to me "Damn it Zeke... I should have bought that Jaguar..." --------------------------------------- My dad has several other GREAT stories about the video game industry between 1993 and late-1999. I'd love to share his story about the DreamCast. That story is mind-boggling and it explains exactly why the DreamCast failed. But this has already gotten too long, so that's a story for another time (In fact, if I can, I'd actually love to get my dad to write up that story up himself. He could tell it better than I ever could. Or post a video on YouTube, as a kind of... "For the record" type of deal. Just to document why the DreamCast failed even though the systems always sold out.

A Genesis I recently bought on eBay had RF shielding that was literally only rust. In fact it fell apart when I was removing it. The system was covered in rust, the 68000 pins were rust... everything was rust. I applied flux, reflowed some solder, replaced one of the 7805's and now it works like new! It doesn't look very nice... but it works. Anyways, I honestly don't care if a system is total garbage. At the very least I can remove EVERY component and have an original PCB to work with. I've done this in the past... and I HIGHLY recommend never doing it. But if you remove all components, you can repair the silkscreen of a PCB making it look brand new (repairing broken traces is where things start getting nasty). Anyways, I had a rather rare Famiclone a while back and I did the above. I removed everything, until all that was left was the PCB, then I reinstalled EVERY component with brand new replacements. It took a very long time... I honestly have no idea how I went through installing every resistor, capacitor, and transistor millimeter by millimeter But that whole week is a blur anyways. My doctor put me on some medication called "Provigil" when this happened (I just skimmed the wiki page, and apparently the drug works in a similar way to Cocaine... which sounds just god awful. How is this good for people?! I digress) Anyways, I was up for 6 days straight; basically manic the whole time... I did so much stuff that week that I thought was ingenious. And after I was hospitalized, stabilized with Valium, then sent home... literally everything I worked on, I looked at and thought to myself "How did I ever think that was a good idea?" Not that anyone asked... but I wrote all that... so I might as well post it.

The next time you get a dead Jaguar, feel free to send it my way That goes for literally all game systems really. If you're gonna throw it out... PLEASE DON'T! Notify me, and I'll pay you to send it to me!

I actually meant to say "One layer of thick bubble wrap". With thin bubble wrap you usually want at least 3 layers...

Jaymiester wins. Hope you enjoy the system when it's done (I was going to close this thread, but I'll keep it open so I can post some pictures of whatever the finished project looks like)

...yes. DirtyPCB is only $295 for 500 of those boards. I don't know the size of the board (or the amount of layers). But I'd imagine that board is only 2 layers, and I can't imagine it exceeds 5x5Cm

Hey guys, so basically here's what I'm offering. In order to become a recommended modder by Jason Rauch for his Hi-Def NES kits; I need to prove that I can actually assemble the kit, and install it in a system. The problem is, I'm a broke College student and I can't afford to spend $130 on one of these kits. That's why; if you'll let me install the HDMI mod in your NES - I'll install it absolutely free of charge. I'd really prefer someone who's willing to send me a Front Loading NES as I do not have the money to replace a Top Loading NES on the off chance something goes wrong. However, if something does go wrong and I... A: Damage your NES beyond repair (almost impossible since I have several spare NES CPU's, and 3 spare PPU's, more compatible RAM than I'd ever need... you get the point) B: Damage the kit during install to the point that it doesn't function correctly I will.. A: Replace your NES with a system in the same condition as the one sent to me (and perform any other modification you wish to the system free of charge; not including NESRGB mods) B: Refund you the money for the kit (Doing so will take me 4 weeks (this is so I can save the money for the refund in increments, so I can refund the $130 without it affecting my ability to pay rent, buy food, etc.) If you'd like the mod installed far cheaper then when I start offering it as a service, and are okay with fronting me $140 - then please contact me Happy Atari...Aging... Atariage! Zeke -------------------------------------------------- QA: I'm confused, why do you need the cost of the install kit upfront? And why do you need it so quickly? I want Jason Rauch to recommend me to install his Hi-Def NES kits. One of his contingencies is, you have to prove you can install the kit. Unfortunately they're in very limited supply and will be going up for sale for the first time on July 3rd at 6:00PM EST. I have no doubt that these kits will sell like hotcakes - which is the reason for the pressing urgency. I need payment upfront simply because I don't have the money to pay for a test kit myself. In return, I'm modding your system only for the cost of the kit. I'm not making a profit from this endeavour at all. I simply want to try the mod ASAP. How do I know you're a trustworthy modder? In all honesty... you don't. However, I have received only positive feedback here, and I like to think that my mod work speaks for itself How do I know you won't break my NES and take my money? I guarantee, one way or another, you will receive a working NES, in the same condition as the one I receive, back from me, in addition to a refund for the cost of the kit (if I somehow break the kit beyond repair or usability). If you're really concerned; PayPal has protection measures in place so people can get a full refund in the event that someone tries to take your money. I thought you didn't offer install services for mods you've never done before? You're right, I don't. Normally, I'd spend the money on a modkit - install it in a spare system as a test install, resell that system to recoup the cost then offer that mod as a service. However, these kits are going to sell fast and it just so happens that I don't have the money to spend on one when they go on sale in two days. Which is why I'm offering this as a 'one time only' type of deal. You don't sound too sure of yourself. Why would I send you my system when it sounds like you'll break it? All the caution stated in this advert is purely for my own protection. I want to make sure people know that it's a possibility that I could break something. However, from an experienced modders point of view - the install looks beyond easy. I have no doubt that I'll install the mod perfectly. How much do I need to pay you in advance? To clarify, I use PayPal for all transactions. The money I need upfront is $140. The kits themselves are $130, however, the extra $10 is for PayPal fees and return shipping. What do I need to send you? I need only the system. Please... do not send me controllers, A/C adapters, video cables, games, etc. I don't keep track of these things so if they're sent to me - they'll probably be lost. How do I send the system to you? You can send it to me via your prefered shipping method. I've also found that a rather thin layer of bubble wrap, and a tight box is all you really need to keep the system from being cosmetically damaged during shipping. How do I get the system back from you? I ship all system I work on back to their owners tightly packed, usually with bubble wrap. I always use USPS to return systems to their owners. Shipping is via First-Class Mail (3-5 days). I will provide you with a tracking number. How long will it take to install the HDMI kit and get my system back from you? My turn-around time is usually two weeks or less. However, you have to account for the time it will take for the HDMI kit to arrive. Overall, I'd estimate three weeks at most. How many people are you doing this for? I am offering this to ONE person and ONE PERSON ONLY! This is a first come first serve deal. Whomever PM's me first will be the person I choose to do the install for. I want to have my system modded, but I don't want it done now. When can I have my NES HDMI modded by you? Unfortunately, I don't know when Jason Rauch's kits will be widely available. With that being said, I do plan to offer Hi-Def NES and UltraHDMI installs as soon as the kits become widely available. ------------------------------------------- This offer expires on 3rd July, 2016 at 6:00PM EST. If no one PM's me by then - this offer becomes null and void.

I agree with the above. Recapping a system should only be done by those who don't care about ruining a Genesis, OR should be done by people who know how to do recaps (aka... me ) I've seen so many botched mod jobs that I've had to cleanup and repair. Basically, if you can't solder - don't attempt it. If you do know how to solder, but do not own the proper desoldering equipment - then you should also not attempt to recap a Genesis.

Great to hear from another professional modder. Every piece of information is greatly appreciated Voultar . The only thing I do have to say is that I really don't use strip-board :/ I use prototype board for certain things, but never copper strip board. Anyways, I did exactly what you suggest... several months ago haha You probably don't remember talking to me, but you told me to try designing PCB's in Eagle... so I did. Below are some prototype versions of a dropin version of Longhorn Engineer's mod board I drew up the cad designs for. (Tvalues, Bvalues are missing on the silkscreen due to manufacturing error). I only OSHPark for PCB's that I can get for only a couple of bucks. For everything else, I use DirtyPCB. They're not fast. They have no method of tracking your order. But they're cheap as hell and they're PCB's have always been of good quaility to me. I highly recommend DirtyPCB for projects of a higher volume (both in size, and the amount of boards needed).

Oh... Haha That picture was simply taken before the wire clips I ordered showed up. No, those are definitely secured down. I used a wallpad wire clip (you know the ones that have adhesive on one side, and a clip on the other?) And a bit of hotglue to keep them from budging.