Is there anyway to minimize the bad RF on an NES toploader?

[+Mitch]

Mitch, what is the no vertical lines mod that you speak of?

 

It's in here: http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=601

 

Basically you have to pull up one of the pins on the PPU because its trace is picking up interference from the ones next to it. In theory, you could probably do it without even adding the A/V mod, but mine was already modded when I bought it.

 

Yes, that's it. But as I said it doesn't eliminate the lines completely from the RF signal.It does improve it quite a bit though.

 

Mitch

[Chuplayer]

Is that the mythological A/V Toploader I see?

 

Looks like it. Not too many of those around.

 

I modded my toploader for composite and did the no lines mod as well. The picture quality looks great now.

 

Mitch

 

The Japanese AV system is a lot easier to find, but it's hard to find a converter cart to let you play US games on the Japanese system. f I could find that, I would have an AV Famicom by now so I could simply share 1 AV connection for all four classic Nintendo consoles.

 

I missed my chance to own one when I was in Japan I couldn't find them in any of the used shops, they all had famicoms, but no toploaders.

 

The adapter, however, is fairly easy to get ahold of. http://www.nintendorepairshop.com has one for $9.99

Got a link to that adapter? I'm having a hard time finding it.

[ApolloBoy]

Mitch, what is the no vertical lines mod that you speak of?

 

It's in here: http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=601

 

Basically you have to pull up one of the pins on the PPU because its trace is picking up interference from the ones next to it. In theory, you could probably do it without even adding the A/V mod, but mine was already modded when I bought it.

 

Yes, that's it. But as I said it doesn't eliminate the lines completely from the RF signal.It does improve it quite a bit though.

 

Mitch

I AV modded my top loader several months ago and the vertical lines are really faint now. I didn't use the circuit shown on NESDev though, I used a different one consisting of a 2N3906 transistor, a 220uF cap and a couple of resistors. I'd take that mod over a well-shielded RF cable any day. BTW, if anyone would like their top loader AV modded, let me know as I can do it for fairly cheap.

[TheGameCollector]

Is that the mythological A/V Toploader I see?

 

Looks like it. Not too many of those around.

 

I modded my toploader for composite and did the no lines mod as well. The picture quality looks great now.

 

Mitch

 

The Japanese AV system is a lot easier to find, but it's hard to find a converter cart to let you play US games on the Japanese system. f I could find that, I would have an AV Famicom by now so I could simply share 1 AV connection for all four classic Nintendo consoles.

 

I missed my chance to own one when I was in Japan I couldn't find them in any of the used shops, they all had famicoms, but no toploaders.

 

The adapter, however, is fairly easy to get ahold of. http://www.nintendorepairshop.com has one for $9.99

Got a link to that adapter? I'm having a hard time finding it.

 

Yeah I am not seeing it either at all. Either you are mistaken or they sold out as soon as you linked to them.

 

Edit: Doh! Our trustworthy friend at Stonagegamer.com has had these adapters for only $10 all along. But grr, it might not work because it says it might not work with AV Famicom. Never mind then. The search goes on.

Edited August 22, 2011 by TheGameCollector