deltronik

I know very little about these things, but I always heard that switching regulators produce a lot of noise -especially RF- and that the old linear regulators where better in these applications for that reason (I'm guessing that's why etim has the cap in his kit too.) What is it about these that is cleaning up the picture and is there any high pitch noise in the audio after the swap?

I love your picture, Brian! Sorry for your loss.

Just an FYI to anyone who might find this thread when troubleshooting their own board: All pins should connect through except for pins 3, 15, 16, 17.

Got the kits for my sears heavy sixer and my Vader. Am I right that there is no C201 on the ver. 16+ 4-switch? My Vader is a v17 and I cannot locate it and I see it is not highlighted on your schematics in the other thread. The kit really cleaned up the RF on my Vader. Hard to tell on the Sixer which has a 2600RGB. I'll have to see if I can try the RF on that console as I left in intact. Thanks!

Good Luck! It was pretty straight forward since my TIA was already socketed. Although, I should have paid closer attention to the low profile vs tall pin headers. As I was putting together the adapter board, I first soldered the wrong pin header in place and had to desolder it. That's probably when I messed up pin 34!

I checked everything on the 2600RGB and adapter board again and found an issue with the connection to pin 34. I tried to re-solder that pin on the adapter board, both the pin header and socket with no luck. Went ahead and jumpered those pins on the adapter board with a short wire. Now it works! SO, those videos I uploaded are examples of what the 2600 video output looks like without pin 34 on the TIA connected!

Check out the videos I linked to... After installing a 2600RGB in a working six switch this is what I see. The artifacts differ a bit with each game, but here is how Asteroids and Baseball look now: https://youtu.be/RRix3JrzRfg https://youtu.be/T3J96dZxDcY I checked continuity through the 2600rgb and adapter board and everything seemed good. Did I mess up the TIA, or something else? Anyone see these glitches before?

Please add me to the list for 1!

Thanks for the update, I'll patiently await my SGM and Gradius BTW, for those that aren't familiar with Gradius already, it can be VERY challenging. Auto fire is your friend, Gradius kills my thumb on the Famicom due to lack of that feature.

I have yet to receive an update from the AtariAge store to my pre-order placed in June. Are you guys still working on shipping out orders, should I expect an update soon?

I'm interested!

Great update! I'd prefer that we wait longer for a complete version of frostbite rather than release with missing features.

Yep, they fulfilled my backorder on the NES receivers too, just received them on Friday. Ordered another one for my friend and got it 2-day prime.

It's a cool concept. I think the dual stick setup could be reasonable utilizing a detachable cord for the second stick, store the cable away unless you're playing robotron, etc. It seems like the control pad setup is the worst part. Judging by the illustrations, it seems like it would be pretty awkward and uncomfortable, but I may be overestimating the controller's bulkiness. As you probably realize, the shell is going to be the actual hard part.

Thanks for correcting me, I'm just learning this stuff on my own! In that case would my conclusion still be true that it is safe to float this pin and leave out the resistor from this mod?