Building a new NES in 2021: Introducing the NESessity DIY NES board!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2021
- We received another NES with extensive motherboard damage. To save it, we built an all new DIY version of the NES motherboard - the NESessity! On this Fix it Friday we will walk you through another option for building an (almost) new NES in 2021!
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Bad Dudes (NES)
Silver Surfer (NES)
Batman (NES)
Journey to Silius (NES)
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I’m 42 and I’m so mad I threw away my NES back in 2003. Wish I kept it. However I still found a lot of my old games.
Glad that you found your old games! At least it’s not too tough to find a working Nintendo these days
Get an AVS from RetroUSB, they're a lot more convenient to use than the old NES nowadays and offer a lot more features. There's other NES clones, but I think the AVS is a lot easier to justify than an Analogue NT.
@7 Angels 7 Plagues With how much NES's go for online, it's pretty much even now.
Considering all the maintenance the front-loader needs to keep going, most people would rather avoid the hassle and get something made for 21st century use.
It's amazing you kept it that long! I'm 42 and I don't think I had mine past '91 or so.
By the way, Take a look at the title of the show now. It's always been Beavis and Butt-Head now. Never had a hyphen for me. Mandela Effect.
What a beautiful open source design. I love the fact that this can very likely save most non-working NES consoles assuming the CPU/PPU chips aren't dead which I feel like is pretty uncommon.
Yes I really love this whole idea. And you are correct, most of the time those chips are still functional
@Shaliqua Smith nes of theseus, neseus
I want to see this done for more consoles as well, it would do wonders for preserving them
The NES will be IMMORTAL!! Except for the snobs who care more about having original parts than how the electronics work
i built one with reverse engineered aftermarket CPU\PPU compatibility is pretty high, I see small issues in some games but for the most part they work well. I got them for pretty cheap too. I 3d printed custom cases and been selling clone NES's for 80.00 getting a pretty good profit. Part number UA6527 (NTSC) or UA6527P (PAL) for 2a03 CPU and part number UA6528 (NTSC) or UA6528P (PAL) for the PPU. I did notice some games sound slightly different with the PAL part but the NTSC part I haven't heard any duty cycle sound problems. As for the PPU every game I tried runs identical with zero issues, before I found the 2a03 part I created a FPGA drop in replacement with a MAX10 part and circuit board I designed, if anyone wants that schematic and Verilog HDL I'll upload the project to github.
This is pretty neat. Someone could potentially sell these pre-assembled and you would just have to provide the chips. Long live the NES.
- you can yell at enemies
I already do that
- and actually effect them in-game
I'm listening
This board has every feature that I wanted an original Analogue NT for. I'm definitely buying it when they come back in stock.
I certainly recommend it! It’s a fun project and I get a lot of use out of mine
How does it fair against copy checks?
I have been interested in this board for quite a while now. The person who makes it also made a cool project several years ago called the Super 8 bit which was a similar concept of an optimized NES board with original main chips and modern components.
Ive been working at a radio shack-esque style shop for about 7 years, this sort of project is right up my alley. Gonna try to order one
All of the boards are sold out until July 1st. Placed myself on the wait-list and it'll be a fun project to work on so in case the current 1985 boards stop working, I'll be building these boards. Love seeing modern replacements for an NES.
When he said "Bridge Rectifier" automatically thought of Electroboom
Electroboom would be disappointed that it looks like most of the power coming in gets WASTED in the 7805 regulator.
FULL Bridge Rectifier
i thought you can't hook the power up backwards...
Well stumbling through TH-cam and I ended up here and so pleased I have. Great idea for a new project I never new existed. Really excited about this one and thank you for a great video!
Dude, this is amazing! I can't wait for the era of replicators, where you can ask for any old computer system you want and instantly get a brand new version of said computer system, right there, n your hands. And this is already part of the way there!
I like the name: NESsessity!
But if you don't have a case, you could call it Bare NESsessity, the only problem is that Bears come around an sing a song and dance along.
You say that like it's a bad thing
Haha.
Never did I think I would witness a dad joke of such high levels
glad someone was finally able to update and make a replacement power supply.
Yeah and I have also updated one for the opentendo which I will show in an upcoming video
My childhood came rushing back hearing this. Much ❤️ to nes and accessories.
That is awesome! Cool to know stuff like this exists to modernize (relatively) older hardware. Makes me giddy inside.
Oh I was waiting for this one! I did an old toaster with a hidef nes mod and this board! Everything works flawless! This is an awesome replacement nes board!
Awesome, glad to hear that you made one of these as well! It was a fun project
awesome build! im new to soldering and i never thought to solder the top side of the components to hold them in place on one side, i always just bent the pin slightly but they would still wobble sometimes. great little trick
Thanks! Yes I just use a little on one leg of the component to tack it into place, then solder everything on the bottom of the pcb
Best part of a friday is the fix it friday!
Just soldering in and of itself is a difficult art to master i see so many people who do things like this and just butcher the soldering and burn whatever they're working on. I can appreciate the difficulty of the task but your soldering technique is so absolutely immaculate it's satisfying watching you work.
Thanks, I really appreciate that! It does take time to learn how to solder, and it's skill that I continue to work on and improve. Hopefully the videos are helpful as well if you are trying to learn some new techniques!
This is actually so nice everything marked on the board making it so easy to do. I might have to pick one up
I recommend it, it’s a fun project!
Very nice video! I really enjoyed it. Man, your solder skills are respectable. This board also makes the NES achieve a new level of customization. Really cool.
Thanks! This was a really fun project to make and I’m glad that you enjoyed it as well!
This idea opens up a lot of possibilities. You could make an entirely different form factor and custom case, make it portable, etc.
If I was assembling lots of these I’d keep a bucket of no clean flux handy and just dip the thing in it first lol
Now this project is going into the direction I was hoping for.
Really great video! I didn't grow up with the NES, but I'm happy to see that people are interested in older consoles
Thanks! It’s great that there are projects like this that can let older consoles get restored
I'd love to see systems like the Atari VCS/2600, the Sega Master System, and Mega Drive get the same treatment. :D
I have done quite a few repairs to NES systems and 72-pin replacements. I was working for a Game and Console reseller, repairing consoles and controllers.
Awesome! I love working on the NES and they are normally pretty robust systems to work on
Awesome video. I'll check out your other videos. Hopefully you have a tool showcase somewhere for people who don't work with electronics a lot
Beautiful.. I have no words. It's amazing to see some things that should of been in the past.
Absolutely awesome! I had no idea this existed. Thank you for the video. That Microphone for the Japanese version of Zelda to be able to use a mic to kill enemies? What?! That's one of my favorite games and I never knew about that either!
Subscribed.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah we really missed out with not having the microphone in the United States. It’s funny, the original instruction manual has a hint that if you shout you can kill some enemies, even though that’s not possible with the American version
This wowed me, even back then nintendo was innovated.
It was a dumb feature for Zelda anyway. You just shout into the microphone and the rabbit enemies die I think.
I can just imagine kids in the 80s sitting in their room randomly screaming. I’m sure parents loved it! No wonder they didn’t give the US that feature, there would have been news stories and lawsuits lol
I really love the soundtrack of this channel, its delightful to watch and listen !!
Thanks, I try to keep the music interesting!
Sounds like what I need. I have an NES with a hex controller chip busted due to dropping a screwdriver on a repair but it still works except for controller port 2
Well, after about a month and a couple of bad solder joints, I got my Nesessity 1.4 working! I'm super excited and this channel has me hooked on modding now. I might try some of the GBA mods you just posted next
That is awesome! Glad that you found the remaining issues and got it working!
Awesome video! I subscribed immediately! I have always wanted kits like this and it seems like we are finally starting to see them! I have a SNES where the pin connector has gone bad on it and I took it apart only to discover that the motherboard was a 1995 model and the pin connector was soldered to the board! haha! Looks like it's time to buy a soldering iron!
Incredible channel growth. You deserve every sub!
I really wish that something identical to this existed for SNES.
I've recently learned how to do a full recap a SNES, and I've successfully done two different consoles (a SNS-CPU-RGB-01, and a SHVC-CPU-01). This sort of project looks really fun and interesting.
This is awesome man! Congrats on your channel blowing up, Your channel definitely deserves it
Thanks man, I really appreciate it! And as always I’m a huge fan of your channel as well
Found you via this video today and subbed! Looking forward to seeing what else you're done!
Thanks, really appreciate that!
Oh this is awesome! I gotta get my hands on one of these kits!
Really admire what you do. You’re very informative & interesting to watch. Just one caveat though - and you’re probably aware - the lighting you use doesn’t do the work you’re performing justice. I know good quality lights are expensive and if you can ever afford some, it would help you immensely. Thanks for sharing with us 🙂
Thanks I really appreciate the feedback and I’m glad you enjoy the videos! You are right, I do not have good lighting at the moment and I’ve been slowly upgrading my equipment. I now have a 4K camera and a quality microphone which does make a big difference
First video i've ever seen from you and this made my day! How have I not seen this before!
Thanks, I’m glad to hear it! Glad that you enjoyed the video!
This is pretty cool. If you've ever seen a Nomad, that would be awesome to do that to an NES.
This is awesome, once it comes back in stock I will get one with the parts in the event that my NES should stop working one day.
I didnt know this was a thing. So glad to have watched this. Thanks alot good work!
Awesome, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Definitely a fun project that I recommend!
Dude, the Silver Surfer NES song freaking rules!
This one of the best videos I've seen on youtube. especially beacuse I love math, electronics, programming and gaming
Thanks, I really do appreciate that feedback
cool music during the soldering section 🙋♂☝👍
This would be perfect for an arcade nes project 👌 just news to find a way of making two controllers for the cabinet
The musical NES build portion is very nice for those of us who mostly listen to videos rather than watch. Kudos. :)
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Music from the original Nintendo is some of my favorite stuff
@@LIRetroGaming what game is that from? (especially the first one)
@@awilliams1701
3:08 Bad Dudes Stage 2
6:30 Silver Surfer Stage 2
8:00 Batman Stage 4
11:03 Journey to Silious Stage 3
Thanks for this vid. I'd like to update my NES like this too. Thanks for letting me know this is out there.
Subbed.
Not sure why you don't have more subscribers. This project is dope!! Great content!!
Thanks so much! This was one of my favorite projects to build
I love your videos. Especially with these new boards. I kind of wish someone would do a new board for the Colecovision.
That would be amazing! I hope it gets done eventually as well
Sadly it would take someone doing a new board for several other systems before the Colecovision. I think it should be second in line though. I predict Genesis next. Maybe super NES.
Awesome kit, thank you for the discovery and how to!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video
I love the ship of theseus approach to building an NES.
Never thought I would think about the ship of Theseus argument with console modding, but it’s definitely true here!
Love the music from Bad Dudes! Great video!
This is pretty cool. The retro community needed a option like this to help preserve and keep the Nes going.
wow, you can soldering so fast even without flux!
Man I love the music from Silver Surfer NES
Cool video! I would have liked to see you mount the board into the housing, connecting it up and all.
Sorry for omitting that! Although it’s about the same as reconnecting an original NES board
Interesting timing where both open tendo and this coming up around the same time
Yeah I think that the NESessity was developed first but they did get released around the same time
Really nice choices in music, fantastic video.
Thanks so much, glad that you enjoyed the video! Can’t go wrong with NES music!
Finally got my board and almost all the parts. I am gonna start soldering this week end. I can’t wait! I also have the HDMI mod in my other NES that is going to migrate to this.
That’s awesome! I hope you have fun putting it together
Just subscribed. Great video on the buukd bro
That Bad Dudes song is a master piece!!!!
Yeah I really love that game. Had it since I was a kid
Looks like a fun kit to practice your soldering skills.
Yeah definitely, it’s good because most of the soldering is through hole and not surface mount
@@LIRetroGaming With the right tools and techniques, surface mount is ultimately way faster than through hole. Drag soldering is a fantastic thing. :)
Love the Bad dudes soundtrack that takes me back
I love that game, one of the first ones I got with my NES
@@LIRetroGaming That's awesome first time I played it was at a local arcade then when I saw it was out for Nintendo back in the day that was Christmas present me and my brother played that all day christmas def fun times
Great vid ! Thanks I didn't know there was a whole motherboard swaping solution i'm really impressed !
Too bad the kits are out of stock... So i'm gonna go finish my arcade cabinet now ^^
See ya around
Nice choice of classic NES soundtracks.
Music is awesome. Can't seem to find them myself tho could you elaborate in the desciption better? Thank you so much! Love the channel!
So glad I still have an original NES. Need to replace the 72 pin connector (a replacement part I have), but it's good to know it can live again if it ever shits the bed.
Yeah this project is awesome for that reason. You can always make a new one from scratch!
I hear "Memories of Death", and can't help but think of that mashup of it and A-Ha's "Take On Me". XD
Brings back memories of bruised thumbs from mashing the controller buttons until they were mush and didn't work any more playing Zelda. Had to learn how to fix them or would have had serious withdrawal symptoms, this was before replacements became available. Sound familiar? Nice work on that NES, I think I will try to resurrect mine.
Nice! Bring that old NES back to life and enjoy some classics!
in regards to the NES microphone, i know that on the famicom, the mic was part of controller 2. i originally thought that in the western NES, it was possible with a controller mod, and that the pin in the socket just didn't have something to connect to. now i figure get some wires connected to the board and glue a mic externally
The microphone circuit on the NESessity is 100% optional to build. It works by detecting a certain volume level and triggering an input that normally only the Famicom uses. A LED can be installed to indicate when the input is active.
Since the NESessity microphone is in the console instead of built into the controller, it does not mix the microphone sound into the audio output like the original Famicom did.
Thank you for the info on store guy.
What a cool video! Great job! 💪✌
You have the best taste in NES music.
Holy crap this is amazing. I am going to build one!
What I love about this video? The old-school 8-bit music! What game or games were used in the creation of this video?
And if anyone ever gets a chance to listen to it, there are people who take actual music and convert it into 8-bit and 16-bit format. Two of my favorites are Unleash the Archers tracks: Soulbound and Apex.
I recognize Journey to Silius around 11min I think? That bad ass Sunsoft music is the best :)
5:44 when you thought putting batteries in the wrong way was bad.
The glory of PCB boards ! Where would we be without the printed circuit board !?
This is actually really cool!! 😎 I wouldn't mind getting something like this and finding an old Nes to scrap for parts. 🛠️ Throw it in a custom case or even mount it to some acrylic or something. With the poor state some Nes systems are in nowadays, I can see why stuff like this exists plus the benefits of added functionality. 👍
Yeah I’m really glad projects like this exist and I got this one just at the right time!
Brandon we got suggested your video through TH-cam. Glad I watched the video. Great content, you got a subscriber from me 👍😎👍
That’s great, I’m really glad you enjoyed the videos and thanks so much for the subscription!
I don't know why that said Brandon it was supposed to say randomly. I guess that's what I get for using speech to text because I wasn't wearing my glasses 🙄
lmao, the Bad Dudes music was a nice touch!
Can’t go wrong with that soundtrack!
I just putvthe controls on back with low profile knobs to keep it clean so i can put the case on.
That board looks pretty good but the gold peeling off the game cart contact pins.
They really should relocate the audio pots over to the expansion bay area in a future revision so they can be accessed without a cut mod.
"You can kill certain enemies" Ah, the Pol's Voice.
Yeah exactly! They mentioned this in the North American Zelda Manuel even though it can’t be done
@@LIRetroGaming okò
8:15 that batman soundtrack is amazing!!!!
Can’t go wrong with that soundtrack! Glad that you enjoyed the video!
Check out odd tinkering to clean up the yellowed case...
I was thinking of designing shells for this motherboard that could be 3D printed. A new design using something like a blinking light win for a front loader but an opening that allows cartridges to easily be gripped and removed.
Yeah I would love to get a replacement shell. Preferably something that is transparent so that you can see the board
Oh wow i didnt know NES kits were available. I'm going to have to get one
The Nesessity board kits sold out within 15 min of becoming available on 12June21. I *barely* managed to get one. Unfortunately, I have two broken front-loader NES consoles. Both have board damage - one has water damage and the other literally has a hole in it where something speared through it 0_o. Luckily the CPU, PPU, and crystals are still good (tested them on my go-to NES in the lab. That means I’ll be using an OpenTendo board for console #2
(Edit) looks like more Nesessity boards will be in stock on 17June21
i loved this video.. thank you so much!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Your soldering skills are great.
Thanks, I appreciate that! With enough practice and the right tools I think it’s something that a lot of people can pick up
I would love to see these kind of open source boards be taken further to turn frontloaders into toploaders
That would be cool, but with the blinking light win I no longer have to worry about wearing out the cartridge connector
Wow this is a great thing for videogame preservation!
Yeah that’s what I really love about this. It means that you can always build an accurate replica long after all of the original boards stopped working
Would love to see the RGB board installed and how that compares to the NESRGB kit on original hardware.
It’s going to happen, so a video will come out soon
@@LIRetroGaming did you ever do that video
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TH-cam are very amazing , if one day I thinks see one people make an original nes by yourself omg , thanks you
Whoa! That is so cool. Just subbed, and looking forward to future videos. Cheers!
Thanks so much and I really appreciate the feedback!
@@LIRetroGaming For sure! Cheers my friend!
I'd love to build something like this if a modern CPU and PPU replacements were ever to be produced. It'd be neat to see that an NES could still be constructed even after all the original parts have turned to dust.
Yeah I hope someday modern replacements can be made for those chips
They kinda have, and there's absolutely no reason they can't be made as drop-ins today, except the cost of having bespoke ASICs manufactured is, for the moment, still out of reach for hobby projects. (And.. you know.. flying under the radar of taking someone else's intellectual property and doing manufacturing runs from it.)
For starters, the original ICs have been photographed at the gate level, so you can actually see every trace and junction. This makes it possible to reverse engineer them to create a perfect 1:1 replica. And that's not something far-fetched, since you can take the "plans" for the chips into a language like Verilog or VHDL and use those to program an FPGA. (That same "code" could be used to synthesize a new ASIC as well, subject to the logistical issues above.)
I don't know if anyone's done a perfect RE of the originals -- I think a project did or does exist to do so -- but there are already a few empirical recreations, based on analyzing the inputs and outputs and creating the "black box" in between that, functionally, is essentially the same. That's the basis of other projects, like HDNes and the Mister cores. They may not be _totally_ flawless, but they're close enough for just about any sensible comparison.
Cheapest solution is to use an FPGA to create the NES hardware. With that said, FPGAs can now recreate all electronics from the seventies and eighties with near circuit-pefection, so there is pretty much no need to stick to the cartridges anymore over the much more durable SSDs we have today.
Heck, you could theoretically make an affordable emulation station with FPGA and NVMe storage that fits all of 1970-2000 (up to playstation1 / N64 / Saturn) as small as an RPi for as little as 100-200 dollars, depending on mass production prices.
@@wertigon Yes, they are well soft-replicable that way. Even simpler (at least by the viewpoint of the savvy-but-not-enough-for-fpga) is to make a microcontroller piggyback, any modern mcu can emulate practically any of those chips, even many of them at once. Of course it's not original then, but nor are any other modern replacements either.
I am very glad that all these replacement boards and tinkering mentality exist, but I personally fail to get the kicks from vintage equipment made non-vintage with modern parts, especially with intentional modifications on its functionality (piggybacking purely for unobtainability reasons is an annoyance but forgivable). Especially if not using cartridges, I rather find it more sensible to just run the emulator on a general purpose PC ;-)
this video came up on my home page and after watching it I noticed only 3.3k subscribers. I'm honestly surprised that this isn't a bigger channel. Techie asmr for the eye balls should be a thing.
Thanks, I appreciate the support! The channel keeps growing and I hope that these videos are helpful for anyone that wants to get into console repairs/mods!
Great video!
11:04 Journey To Silius soundtrack! Awesome!
One of my all time favorite NES games and a really challenging one!