The Nintendo M82 was a store demo unit that is now a rare collectible. In this video I repair one for a client and also fix a limitation in the design I discovered along the way. Enjoy!
Man hires Ben to figure out why he fried his rare M82 trying to allow it to play NTSC games. Ben fixes the problem, by using a part from his personal NES no less, then goes a step further and totally upgrades the system to do things it was never built to be able to do. Classic Heck.
You certainly take fixing to a whole new level! "And while am at it, why not fix this old hardware bug that was never addressed in the original product?" Keep it up, Ben!
Thank you for this. I've had a rough day at work and stuff so being able to come home and settle into watch you fix something awesome and being goofy while doing it really brought a much needed smile to my face.
Ben is the OG my dude. He fixed the Nintendo Playstation! This was a piece of cake. Yes, very impressive knowledge about the IRQ scanline tricks and mapper chips, and to diagnose / fix / wire up a solution for the interrupt request line is god tier.
@@Controllerhead I didn't know it was "a thing" now anymore so than it has been in the past? Anyway I didn't understand what you meant by him being "the original" in relation to the OP that talked about knowledge of the NES?
No matter how complicated the build or repair is Ben always comes through like a Champion. When he Frankensteined the RF module to get a picture on the Video-camera I said out-loud "The Master". LoL. 2020 and Still undefeated. Respect.
@@lordperezident It's a joke. He's implying that anyone who actually understands VPNs and the companies that run them wouldn't take doing a commercial for them seriously.
Ben, I’m really glad you are running this TH-cam channel the way you are. This is the reason I got into your previous channel. It’s really interesting to hear you talk about your process and you are a wealth of knowledge. I really enjoy everything you have given us. Have a good one!
Since I use SURFBADGER my life is just better- my skin feels softer and now the hot dog packages contain the same amount of sausages than there are buns in the buns package!
it's crazy Ben. I have never opened something and tried to solder wires or mess around with that kind of stuff. I just remember years and years ago reading gizmodo articles about the new console you made into a portable version of itself, and here i am years later still watching you do your thing. Thanks man. For no reason at all, i really enjoy your content and you're a really nice guy.
The Barrett M82A1, standardized by the U.S. military as the M107, is a recoil-operated, semi-automatic anti-materiel sniper system developed by the American Barrett Firearms Manufacturing company. Despite its designation as an anti-materiel rifle, it is used by some armed forces as an anti-personnel system. The M107 variant is also called the Light Fifty for its .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) chambering and significantly lighter weight compared to previous applications and the 15% heavier base M82 model.The weapon is found in three variants, the original M82A1 (and A3), the bullpup M82A2 and Barrett M107A1 with muzzle brake designed to accept a suppressor and made out of titanium instead of steel. The M82A2 is no longer manufactured, though the XM500 can be seen as its successor.
LOVED watching this. Seeing unique pieces of hardware analyzed like this is fascinating to people that grew up seeing them from afar on store shelves. One question though, how could you play those games in stretched 16:9?
like, how could he stand it? or how did he actually do it? TV's convert it automatically; Standard, Stretch, Zoom, and that weird one that keeps keeps the middle original and progressively stretches the picture more to the outside
Why the heck did they have a 30 second option? It's literally enough time to get passed the title screen and move for maybe two seconds, or read some intro text.
They would usually switch it to 30sec when it was in the "non" playing mode (they would lock up the access to the controllers with a plastic cover and a padlock) as a mean to make it a "demo" cabinet so that the game rotates faster for advertisement because this switch (at least from the units i remember using @ the store) was limiting the game time by switching to the next game in the rack after a set amount of time, i remember also that there was another switch to make games goes sequentially (by the rack order) or randomly. It's possible that many modifications were out there, it's been a while :-)
Simple, for asshole sellers who want to keep the kids from the machine. I can still remember back then a Media Markt employee cursing "This place is not an arcade!" and then switching it to 30 seconds.
@@waltercomunello121 exactly what I was going to say. If they're bulging at all then they defs no good, and as you said, at that age they should be changed as a matter of course on anything that you value at all.
It's kinda weird seeing Ben after not watching for 4 years. Im getting the impression he left element and is doing his own thing. Still a master and I enjoy watching.
I was wondering why he said it with an accent. Doc Brown doesn't have an accent. Now, if he would have said it like a douchbag who had his nuts chopped off, I'd know exactly who he was imitating.
@@projectJ30 Your comment really shows who the real douchebag is. Dave Jones is one of the most authentic guys on TH-cam. Very opinionated but authentic. He doesn't do sponsored videos and he tells it like he sees it. Also Doc Brown wasn't even the guy who says that line MJF did th-cam.com/video/c1QcjsjjtRc/w-d-xo.html
@@zackt4551 I have good reason for calling him a douchebag, maybe he shouldn't be so opinionated. He lost me as a viewer years ago. By the way, the quote in this video is from both Doc and Marty. "made in japan, all the best stuff is made in japan". Have fun in your mask.
Could always nudge GameTechUS and/or Kevtris and see if they still had their work on replacing the custom M82 Nintendo ASIC. Seems like it'd fit this build perfectly!
Played the M82 when I was about 9 years old in the game store at the mall. I was like... I can play Exciteback and Duck Hunt AND Popeye without swappin carts
Man hires Ben to figure out why he fried his rare M82 trying to allow it to play NTSC games. Ben fixes the problem, by using a part from his personal NES no less, then goes a step further and totally upgrades the system to do things it was never built to be able to do. Classic Heck.
We never did find out what all those extra controller ports did.... The zapper or the world class track meet PAD? Or all of the above at the same time? Can you elaborate Ben?
I'm finding that, decades old hardware in my case a Japanese made Sony DV handycam works, whereas the smartphone I have from a few years ago stopped working. 🤣
That's because a lot of them started doing what America did and outsourced everything to China. This is especially true of anything with a Lithium battery since Lithium mining is a very dangerous and environmentally unfriendly process that we'd rather leave up to the Chinese and if they're procuring the lithium it just makes sense to manufacture everything else there as well (it also helps that they are so cheap that even with shipping cost, half the stuff could be borked and it would still be cheaper than making it in a first world country).
@@VoidHalo to be fair our fridge freezer, washing machine, and car that has mountain bikes thrown in the back and run to forests all over the country have been going for years longer than you'd expect and are still running nicely.
I just spit up my drink at the Celine Dion reference. When I was a kid my mom blasted her and Michael Bolton on weekends when I tried to sleep in and it was absolute hell to listen to.
7:35 Instead of a plier you can stick the extension on the handle (the one you grabed with the plier) and stick it in to the hole on the end of the handle.
This is the comment I was looking for. That version of the iFixit has been my daily for 6+ years and I'm still shocked I haven't broken that extension with how much abuse I've put it through. Worth every penny, but I may finally order one of the handles since they have much better grip than the old pencil driver.
I don't know why but Contra has 3 names: -Contra -Probotector -Gryzor I live in Australia, and Contra on NES here was the Probotector version from Europe which changed the main 2 character sprites to robots. But I played Contra before that on Commodore 64 where it was called Gryzor, hence I have always know it as Gryzor. I love calling it Gryzor in front on Contra nerds, they loose there shit! Gryzor has no edits that I know of, just a different name.
Lassi Kinnunen Yeah it’s a lot more unique than the characters they ripped off (Stallone and Schwarzenegger). Robot games were in abundance on the NES though, so it might have been less popular if they went with Probotector everywhere.
Hi Ben, I've been watching your shows for ever. You are probably the first youtuber I followed. I don't have an engineering degree and I don't always understand what you are talking about, but I always find your projects entertaining and interesting. Wish I had half the electronics knowledge you do. Long time fan. Thanks for all the cool gadgetry. Take care!
I was in college back in 96, for Electronic Tech. I had a vietnamese guy in class that went back home for break, brought back with him, a black market ($50) single cartridge (was smaller, had to put it in an adapter to use on the NES) that had half of all the NEW games in that one cartridge.
Man I wanted one of these when I first saw them since fir me I wouldn't have to change out the cartridges all the time just click click click click click click click.... click click.... and go, plus I've always wanted to see the insides of it since it was so unique. Thank you for doing this and posting this for us all
I haven't watched a video probably since like 2014 from you. Once Element 14 overtook the Ben Heck Show your name kinda got lost... Im 20, but this is the coolest shit ever. You basically hacked an ancient kit to work, but I love how you used an old video camera as a monitor to test it out. Then you got all those extra features working. That's seriously cool.
Wouldn't just wiring all the IRQs of cartridges together work as well, since the line is pulled up externally? I don't think you need those AND logic to achieve what you did.
My understanding is that the default reading is high and the IRQ is looking for a low. If you just wire them all together you'll pretty much be stuck on high. Where the gate solution sends a cascading low if any of them turn off.
@@MrDabrain75 Well, even if other cartridges have internal pull-up resistors (which I doubt, because people in industry love to save on BOM, even if it is one resistor, and judging by Ben adding pull-ups to each slot manually) it would only mean that IC's on the board would need to sink more current, and a single cartridge shorting to the ground would still set the IRQ correctly.
MMC5 is a quite powerful and insane chip able to pull some weirdass tricks, like splitting the screen horizontally and allowing a finer grain on tile palette selection (normally you can only choose one of the four palettes for a 2x2 tile cluster, but with MMC5 1x1 is possible). I imagine that most of the MMC5 tricks are done by quickly swapping the data during the scanline drawing and some unholy video bus shenigans to hijack the internal video memory addresses, and either the ben heck IRQ hack, or some missing lines, or interference with the other cartridges, or the longass lines to the video chip/memory or just all of em at once stopping the MMC5 hardware hacking from working.
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As always very interesting, thank you. For what very little it's worth I tend to design two layer PCB's with a GND flood on the bottom and VCC flood on the top - a little bit of free decoupling capacitance, in theory! PS Nintendo must like you: no copyright strike for daring to show some 30 year old IP... unless those 72 down votes are all from Nintendo layers - no other rational other reason!
OMG, I just watched the episode where you made that benchtop power supply!! Glad to see it’s still getting some use. That video is about 6 years old now!
I do remember that we played with these as a kid in toy stores. Some of these had set the play timer limit so high that you did not even had the time to test the game itself =0)
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Even in 2020 Ben Heck is still putting on some sweet sweet regrettable acting.
Man hires Ben to figure out why he fried his rare M82 trying to allow it to play NTSC games. Ben fixes the problem, by using a part from his personal NES no less, then goes a step further and totally upgrades the system to do things it was never built to be able to do. Classic Heck.
Ben got the VPN ad down to a tee. He even managed to get not understanding IP(v4) addresses in there.
300.912.11.20 😂
That advert is amazing
it took me a fair amount of time and research to realize it's a joke. But then I thought, "that's an amazing interval"! Well done Ben!
31:00 Windows x86, x64, ** Mac OS 3 and up ** ... wait... WHAT?!?
I even watched the whole ad segment! Ben's amazing like that.
You certainly take fixing to a whole new level! "And while am at it, why not fix this old hardware bug that was never addressed in the original product?" Keep it up, Ben!
i'm more concerned about the metal shavings coming off the screw than about you "damaging" the original hardware
the only thing i'm worried about is accidentally going through the screw and into the PCB.
Thank you for this. I've had a rough day at work and stuff so being able to come home and settle into watch you fix something awesome and being goofy while doing it really brought a much needed smile to my face.
Love the new style of videos, no commercialised crap! Must sign up for surfbadger asap
As a NES homebrewer, I'm very impressed by your knowledge of the NES. Good stuff.
Ben is the living Legend, the Goat.
Ben is the OG my dude. He fixed the Nintendo Playstation! This was a piece of cake. Yes, very impressive knowledge about the IRQ scanline tricks and mapper chips, and to diagnose / fix / wire up a solution for the interrupt request line is god tier.
@@Controllerhead How does that make him "the original"?
@@bangerbangerbro Ben has been doing console mods since the late 90s, way before it was a "thing"
@@Controllerhead I didn't know it was "a thing" now anymore so than it has been in the past? Anyway I didn't understand what you meant by him being "the original" in relation to the OP that talked about knowledge of the NES?
No matter how complicated the build or repair is Ben always comes through like a Champion. When he Frankensteined the RF module to get a picture on the Video-camera I said out-loud "The Master". LoL. 2020 and Still undefeated. Respect.
"It's as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced"
Years from now people are going to be so confused by that opening. I loved it!
Years from now people will remember the toilet paper shortage of 2020.
It's out generations version of women drawing a line down the back of their legs in WW2.
@@BenHeckHacks : Certainly less disturbing than using gravy to replace panty hose.
I think there's a law against doing VPN commercials if you actually understand them.
What do you mean? Illegal if you understand? Please explain
@@lordperezident It's a joke. He's implying that anyone who actually understands VPNs and the companies that run them wouldn't take doing a commercial for them seriously.
Ben, I’m really glad you are running this TH-cam channel the way you are. This is the reason I got into your previous channel. It’s really interesting to hear you talk about your process and you are a wealth of knowledge. I really enjoy everything you have given us. Have a good one!
"I DON'T CARE"
is a way of life
Does it matches with Hakuna Matata?
the dude abides
I missed these videos a lot more than I thought I did. Glad I found this channel so I can. Listen to the humorous ramblings while fixing cool stuff.
Since I use SURFBADGER my life is just better- my skin feels softer and now the hot dog packages contain the same amount of sausages than there are buns in the buns package!
I can't get it to work on my Tiger Dot Com handheld.
Is it compatible with the original iPod touch?
Can I run it on my zx spectrums?
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k Yes, it runs on ZX Spectrums. 31:00
and there's the perfect amount of thermal paste on every processor!!
it's crazy Ben. I have never opened something and tried to solder wires or mess around with that kind of stuff. I just remember years and years ago reading gizmodo articles about the new console you made into a portable version of itself, and here i am years later still watching you do your thing. Thanks man. For no reason at all, i really enjoy your content and you're a really nice guy.
The Nintendo M82 sounds like an explosive...
“Nintendo M82 armed and ready to detonate, sir.”
“Time to let some kids play Adventure Island for only 30 seconds.”
It's a spiral galaxy.
@@gacsizclickon I know, but there's also the M80 dynamite
M82, if memory serves me right, is the model number of a high-caliber sniper rifle.
The Barrett M82A1, standardized by the U.S. military as the M107, is a recoil-operated, semi-automatic anti-materiel sniper system developed by the American Barrett Firearms Manufacturing company. Despite its designation as an anti-materiel rifle, it is used by some armed forces as an anti-personnel system. The M107 variant is also called the Light Fifty for its .50 BMG (12.7×99mm NATO) chambering and significantly lighter weight compared to previous applications and the 15% heavier base M82 model.The weapon is found in three variants, the original M82A1 (and A3), the bullpup M82A2 and Barrett M107A1 with muzzle brake designed to accept a suppressor and made out of titanium instead of steel. The M82A2 is no longer manufactured, though the XM500 can be seen as its successor.
Now be careful, Ben! It says there are no user serviceable parts inside!
He's not a user, he's never played a single game on that unit.
After the assistance to the iFixIt square head, it's now a "helix head".
Yeah I was like "one of those tools is gonna suffer..." ;D
you mean a felix head (I'll show myself out)
@@michaelhelmut1 Darn it, You beat me too it!
LOVED watching this. Seeing unique pieces of hardware analyzed like this is fascinating to people that grew up seeing them from afar on store shelves. One question though, how could you play those games in stretched 16:9?
like, how could he stand it? or how did he actually do it? TV's convert it automatically; Standard, Stretch, Zoom, and that weird one that keeps keeps the middle original and progressively stretches the picture more to the outside
I had no idea this even existed, only on your channel would I see something like this! Great stuff as always Ben! Look forward to whatever comes next!
When I was a kid seeing these at Toys R Us I wanted one more than anything.
And most likely they dumped them when it was obsolete 😕
@@MisterCasket They did. My step dad found one at the dump and brought it home. It was missing some things tho. This was way back in like '95.
How about now?
@@rich1051414 horrible 😣
When we were not able to afford our own system as kids we would practically live in the toy store playing these all day.
How dare you modify an already modified system! And Nintendo have only betrayed the continental Europeans, us Brits use all types
That's it! Ben Heck is grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded for 100 years, hes gotta go to his room right now
@@adventureoflinkmk2 go back to 2011, Caillou.
@@thedipperman5106 hahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂
And yet you Brits are always the first to shit on Americans on the internet for not using the metric system for everything. 😒
Why the heck did they have a 30 second option? It's literally enough time to get passed the title screen and move for maybe two seconds, or read some intro text.
This must be straight from the 9th layer of hell.
They would usually switch it to 30sec when it was in the "non" playing mode (they would lock up the access to the controllers with a plastic cover and a padlock) as a mean to make it a "demo" cabinet so that the game rotates faster for advertisement because this switch (at least from the units i remember using @ the store) was limiting the game time by switching to the next game in the rack after a set amount of time, i remember also that there was another switch to make games goes sequentially (by the rack order) or randomly. It's possible that many modifications were out there, it's been a while :-)
Speedrun fetishists ?
Simple, for asshole sellers who want to keep the kids from the machine. I can still remember back then a Media Markt employee cursing "This place is not an arcade!" and then switching it to 30 seconds.
"It's a wider shaft so I should have more torque."
That's what she said.
😆
uhh-huh-huh... he said "oil"
... and "penetrate"
Lol
SubZero I said this as I read this.
Maintain a safe distance from all priests
While I've never really ever been very much into video games I am always impressed by your technical abilities and really enjoyed this video.
"This thing is built like a puzzle box!"
Some laptops are built in much nastier ways.
I can see some puffed up capacitors on the psu?
are you asking us or telling us
They’re JUST starting to bulge, but I would replace them anyway.
@@Relemsis who knows? :P
@@ElZamo92 I would always consider it on some 30yo equipment, regardless they're bulging or not. An ESR meter might come in handy.
@@waltercomunello121 exactly what I was going to say. If they're bulging at all then they defs no good, and as you said, at that age they should be changed as a matter of course on anything that you value at all.
I enjoyed this whole video way more than I thought I would. 10/10 would watch again!!!
It's kinda weird seeing Ben after not watching for 4 years. Im getting the impression he left element and is doing his own thing. Still a master and I enjoy watching.
"You are in Flint Michigan"
Love it. Great vid sir.
I remember these kiosk units as a kid. I loved being able to play for free, even though it was about 3 minutes. Thanks for the video, this was great.
20:09 That EEVBlog reference lol
Brian Lawhorn sounded more british than Australian tho lol
That was why I looked in the comments to see if anyone else caught that
I was wondering why he said it with an accent. Doc Brown doesn't have an accent.
Now, if he would have said it like a douchbag who had his nuts chopped off, I'd know exactly who he was imitating.
@@projectJ30
Your comment really shows who the real douchebag is. Dave Jones is one of the most authentic guys on TH-cam. Very opinionated but authentic. He doesn't do sponsored videos and he tells it like he sees it.
Also Doc Brown wasn't even the guy who says that line MJF did
th-cam.com/video/c1QcjsjjtRc/w-d-xo.html
@@zackt4551 I have good reason for calling him a douchebag, maybe he shouldn't be so opinionated. He lost me as a viewer years ago. By the way, the quote in this video is from both Doc and Marty. "made in japan, all the best stuff is made in japan".
Have fun in your mask.
Could always nudge GameTechUS and/or Kevtris and see if they still had their work on replacing the custom M82 Nintendo ASIC. Seems like it'd fit this build perfectly!
Yup still making them: www.game-tech.us/product/m82-asic-replacement/
Played the M82 when I was about 9 years old in the game store at the mall. I was like...
I can play Exciteback and Duck Hunt AND Popeye without swappin carts
Man hires Ben to figure out why he fried his rare M82 trying to allow it to play NTSC games. Ben fixes the problem, by using a part from his personal NES no less, then goes a step further and totally upgrades the system to do things it was never built to be able to do. Classic Heck.
This was an awesome video but OMG his ad for surf badger had me dying lol
Great stuff as always Ben!
I heard the screams of millions as if all of the universe cried "Nooooooo" at using the Dremel
11:33 "No, no, YOU will die..." 5v on the flood fill is *unlimited powah*
and here we are today with our 4 or even 6 layer boards where doing floodfills with 5v and gnd is totally normal....
Why am I just now getting recommended this channel? It sure is good.
33:31 "That's why I wasn't worried about the propagation delay": I bow to your knowledge and courage to hack the IRQ.
I’m just in awe of how smart this dude is
"To do justice to a Jim Steinman song, part of you has to leave and something else comes in." -- Meat Loaf
I love the midroll ad where you take the piss out of the usual scare tactic advertising copy for VPNs.
We never did find out what all those extra controller ports did.... The zapper or the world class track meet PAD? Or all of the above at the same time? Can you elaborate Ben?
1blisslife Maybe it was a built-in Four Score.
Or for controllers like the Nes Advantage that use both?
One is for the NES Camera
So, a repair AND an upgrade. Wonderful video as always.
Nintendo once asked my grandfather how old he was.
He replied, "Nintendo, M82"
Don't quit your job.
I'm finding that, decades old hardware in my case a Japanese made Sony DV handycam works, whereas the smartphone I have from a few years ago stopped working. 🤣
That's because a lot of them started doing what America did and outsourced everything to China. This is especially true of anything with a Lithium battery since Lithium mining is a very dangerous and environmentally unfriendly process that we'd rather leave up to the Chinese and if they're procuring the lithium it just makes sense to manufacture everything else there as well (it also helps that they are so cheap that even with shipping cost, half the stuff could be borked and it would still be cheaper than making it in a first world country).
Planned obsolescence makes a lot more money than products that last decades.
@@VoidHalo 1000% what they've been doing with cars the last couple decades. Happened with Mercedes after 1999
@@VoidHalo to be fair our fridge freezer, washing machine, and car that has mountain bikes thrown in the back and run to forests all over the country have been going for years longer than you'd expect and are still running nicely.
That was great Mr Heck :) - now make it a handheld.
Dunno if it's possible to make a 12 NES card game changer into a handheld
NOW, MAKE, IT... A, HAAAANDHELD.
@@JohnnyWednesday It'll probably look like a rocket launcher
@@adventureoflinkmk2 Sure they will, you just have to remove the chips from the carts before you take it out.
In gandalf voice 'dont tempt me Johnny!'
I just spit up my drink at the Celine Dion reference. When I was a kid my mom blasted her and Michael Bolton on weekends when I tried to sleep in and it was absolute hell to listen to.
But can you turn the M82 into a portable with 12 cartridge slots?
Anything is portable with a long enough extension cord (or portable battery/generator) and provided you can carry it.
Strap a CRT TV to it, done!
I've been looking forward to this ever since you showed off that tease of it. Thank you!
7:35 Instead of a plier you can stick the extension on the handle (the one you grabed with the plier) and stick it in to the hole on the end of the handle.
This is the comment I was looking for. That version of the iFixit has been my daily for 6+ years and I'm still shocked I haven't broken that extension with how much abuse I've put it through. Worth every penny, but I may finally order one of the handles since they have much better grip than the old pencil driver.
Ben Heck, the magical wizard with a soldering iron and a galaxy for a brain. Great stuff!
7:23 Take out the extension on the screwdriver and stick it through the top hole. Presto T wrench. Took me a little to get it x3
I love the unfiltered Ben, you do what you have to so that it works. A working unit is better that a doorstop.
I don't know why but Contra has 3 names:
-Contra
-Probotector
-Gryzor
I live in Australia, and Contra on NES here was the Probotector version from Europe which changed the main 2 character sprites to robots.
But I played Contra before that on Commodore 64 where it was called Gryzor, hence I have always know it as Gryzor. I love calling it Gryzor in front on Contra nerds, they loose there shit!
Gryzor has no edits that I know of, just a different name.
TotalMK It was Gryzor first 😁
Konami's marketing team probably got most of their game titles from news reports, but Gryzor is still a mystery to me lol
Japanese version is named "Kon to ra" (Contra) in Kanji, not Gryzor.
@@Dwedit But it was called Gryzor as well. No idea where the name comes from.
Lassi Kinnunen Yeah it’s a lot more unique than the characters they ripped off (Stallone and Schwarzenegger). Robot games were in abundance on the NES though, so it might have been less popular if they went with Probotector everywhere.
very impressed when he fixed the scrolling issue with the irq line
I'm not sure if that plug was real. I loved it, though!
Yep, definitely a genuine Type B grounded American 3-pin! ;P
I cringe whenever any tech-savvy channels shill VPNs. Bless you, Ben.
Ben wins the internet, again!
Hi Ben, I've been watching your shows for ever. You are probably the first youtuber I followed. I don't have an engineering degree and I don't always understand what you are talking about, but I always find your projects entertaining and interesting. Wish I had half the electronics knowledge you do. Long time fan. Thanks for all the cool gadgetry. Take care!
"This game is an IRQ tour de force" lol.
This is an incredible display of talent
I love the NiCE!
I watch his channel just for the Mm-Kay
I was in college back in 96, for Electronic Tech. I had a vietnamese guy in class that went back home for break, brought back with him, a black market ($50) single cartridge (was smaller, had to put it in an adapter to use on the NES) that had half of all the NEW games in that one cartridge.
Lol I love how he doesn't know that the number is still good of course it is still good Nintendo hasn't ever changed there number for customer service
Man I wanted one of these when I first saw them since fir me I wouldn't have to change out the cartridges all the time just click click click click click click click.... click click.... and go, plus I've always wanted to see the insides of it since it was so unique. Thank you for doing this and posting this for us all
24:05 "Like the Europe the UK"
It's only been like 4 months and we're already excluding the UK from Europe.
I haven't watched a video probably since like 2014 from you. Once Element 14 overtook the Ben Heck Show your name kinda got lost...
Im 20, but this is the coolest shit ever. You basically hacked an ancient kit to work, but I love how you used an old video camera as a monitor to test it out. Then you got all those extra features working. That's seriously cool.
We need a Ben Heck, Dave Jones crossover.
two videos from memory:
th-cam.com/video/5WlRm-ghuoA/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/wYo4lOuD_-Y/w-d-xo.html
Dudes got a MST3k hoodie on and a vintage Nintendo I didn’t know existed. I live here now.
6:30 was the best part of the vid.
Love seeing you being free to do whatever Ben.
Element14 was very open with what projects we chose to do but it was the relentless schedule that got to me over time.
My favorite youtubers post when they got something to post, makes for the best content.
Wouldn't just wiring all the IRQs of cartridges together work as well, since the line is pulled up externally? I don't think you need those AND logic to achieve what you did.
My understanding is that the default reading is high and the IRQ is looking for a low. If you just wire them all together you'll pretty much be stuck on high. Where the gate solution sends a cascading low if any of them turn off.
@@MrDabrain75 Well, even if other cartridges have internal pull-up resistors (which I doubt, because people in industry love to save on BOM, even if it is one resistor, and judging by Ben adding pull-ups to each slot manually) it would only mean that IC's on the board would need to sink more current, and a single cartridge shorting to the ground would still set the IRQ correctly.
I can't believe I watched all of this.'without an ounce of regret. Thanks for the awesome repair and content
curious why MMC5 had issues, seems like an interesting bug
MMC5 is a quite powerful and insane chip able to pull some weirdass tricks, like splitting the screen horizontally and allowing a finer grain on tile palette selection (normally you can only choose one of the four palettes for a 2x2 tile cluster, but with MMC5 1x1 is possible).
I imagine that most of the MMC5 tricks are done by quickly swapping the data during the scanline drawing and some unholy video bus shenigans to hijack the internal video memory addresses, and either the ben heck IRQ hack, or some missing lines, or interference with the other cartridges, or the longass lines to the video chip/memory or just all of em at once stopping the MMC5 hardware hacking from working.
Thanks for showing off Shatterhand, Ben. The best NES game in my opinion.
Would be cool if SOMEONE would open source a diagram to build one of these... Aye Ben heck
Considering Nintendo are still making money off of the NES (at least indirectly), I think they would object to that in some form.
@@lillywho Nah, otherwise they'd have rung on Analogue's door long ago.
@@lillywho yeah no, no hardware sales on the nes or Famicom in 2020. 🤦🏻♂️
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nice one Ben.
When you're actually first. LOVE YOU BEN
Came for the Nintendo, subbed for the singing.
I love the sponsorship skid, those VPN sponsorships were getting so darn annoying and frequent as if you couldn't stay alive without a VPN
As always very interesting, thank you.
For what very little it's worth I tend to design two layer PCB's with a GND flood on the bottom and VCC flood on the top - a little bit of free decoupling capacitance, in theory!
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Nintendo must like you: no copyright strike for daring to show some 30 year old IP... unless those 72 down votes are all from Nintendo layers - no other rational other reason!
Best sponsor segment I've ever seen. Ever!
OMG, I just watched the episode where you made that benchtop power supply!! Glad to see it’s still getting some use. That video is about 6 years old now!
I still have that same controller from the thumbnail. The headphone jack was awesome!
Loving the old school rainbow ribbon inside!
So glad your doing your own thing whilst your other life is going down toilet , love these videos and console adaptions.
Ben Heck is a national treasure.
Its nice to see this rare unit, and the ease with which you repaired / hacked / fixed it! Thanks again forban entertaining, yet interesting video!
I completely forgot about those!! I would love to have one. Remember playing on it in the store as a kid.
Wow you are so talented. I'm trying to learn more about hardware. I'm sure you've spent decades learning what you know.
Your content is gold. I always laugh and learn.
Multiple times while watching you play the games I looked over my shoulder to see what light was on so I could turn it off and get rid of the glare.
I have a smart bulb setting that dims the other lights but turns that one off completely for TV viewing. I forgot to engage sadly.
Yesssssss the M82. A spectacle of graphics and sound.
Batman was one of the best games for NES. Was so proud of beating that game.
I do remember that we played with these as a kid in toy stores. Some of these had set the play timer limit so high that you did not even had the time to test the game itself =0)
Ninja Gaiden II was the first game I ever wanted to finish because I was interested in the story. So good!
6:00-7:00....I DIED.....LOL!!!! Brutal Ben strikes again😂. Love it dude! Keep up the good work!!!
Great video, excellent diagnostics. Keep 'em coming!