Shawn Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Hey, Check it out. A 7800 in a Sunnyvale light sixer shell with BIOS skip, asteroids game onboard, standard barrel AC jack & AV modded with gold plated jacks and has simulated stereo to boot! Cheers, Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 How about some pictures of inside? Bet theres a ton of wires . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 How about some pictures of inside? Bet theres a ton of wires . I bet your right. Here is a pic of the guts: There is roughly 50 six to eight inch wires to re-route pretty much everything on the motherboard and then the 32 wires for the cart port bus, they had to be roughly 3 inches as anything more than that you would start to get single loss or interferance. I was able to get perfectly crisp output for the video and audio so I'm very happy with the results. The 5v regulator and heat sink had to be moved, I put it roughly 5 inches away from the cart port as even with stock 7800's the regulator being where it is does cause bleed to the video. Moving it as far from the cart port as possible is best. Then the controller ports being wired from the front of the motherboard to the back of the case, all the switches removed and wired to a homemade pcb for the switchboard, changing the switch types on most of the switches to momentary as that is what the 7800 uses in most cases where the 2600 didn't. The color switch is now the pause button. Moved and replaced the power jack from the back right side of the motherboard to the middle on the shell,ect.ect. This was a hell of a mod to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 How about some pictures of inside? Bet theres a ton of wires . I bet your right. Here is a pic of the guts: There is roughly 50 six to eight inch wires to re-route pretty much everything on the motherboard and then the 32 wires for the cart port bus, they had to be roughly 3 inches as anything more than that you would start to get single loss or interferance. I was able to get perfectly crisp output for the video and audio so I'm very happy with the results. The 5v regulator and heat sink had to be moved, I put it roughly 5 inches away from the cart port as even with stock 7800's the regulator being where it is does cause bleed to the video. Moving it as far from the cart port as possible is best. Then the controller ports being wired from the front of the motherboard to the back of the case, all the switches removed and wired to a homemade pcb for the switchboard, changing the switch types on most of the switches to momentary as that is what the 7800 uses in most cases where the 2600 didn't. The color switch is now the pause button. Moved and replaced the power jack from the back right side of the motherboard to the middle on the shell,ect.ect. This was a hell of a mod to say the least. Hi Shawn Wow,looks great,i wish i could do this too. greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Here is one pic of the guts very early on. I didn't even end up using this motherboard or the cart port but it gives you a rough idea. The red x's are stuff I still had yet to remove. I'm not opening it back up to take any other pics as one of the hardest parts is screwing the cart port to the cart glide cause there is less then 2 inches clearance when putting it together as the glide is contact cemented to the switchboard section of the shell for durability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Wow, that's a ton o' work! Looks fantastic, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 Wow, that's a ton o' work! Looks fantastic, though. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Nice work. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 How many hours did it take from start to finsh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mimo Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 That is beautiful, wish I had the skills/time/money to make/steel/buy one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 How much you guys think this would be worth as a lot or just for the console? More than I can afford right now. Hopefully it sells well enough to convince you to keep doing more of these up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Pretty cool Shawn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Very very cool... clean work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 23, 2010 Author Share Posted January 23, 2010 How many hours did it take from start to finsh? I took alot of breaks but if I add it all up I would say at least 6 hours. Also when I scrapped the first motherboard and cart setup I had started that was about 2 hours work that was lost. So I guess more like 8 hours if I was to include things I had to repeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahfish Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 absofuckinlutely dope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorf Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Most interesting indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Salamon Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 That looks awesome Shawn! Nice work! Now about those NES controllers and SMS Phaser... perhaps you will have a customer in the near future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armonigann Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 absofuckinlutely dope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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