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In this installment, I rework an NESRGB modded Front-Loader that's filled with the sacred hot-glue sauces.
All restoration work was performed pro bono for the very excellent Twitch streamer, cantaloupeme.
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I think the main issue with this is you aren't emphasizing that you aren't mad that he is bad at soldering and wants to cover it with hot glue rather you are mad that the guy is _selling_ these like this with cheap solder and hot glue.
Absolutely right. Do it however you want to do it. I'm being critical of the fact that it's being sold this way. And ultimately, if there wasn't a problem with it, it wouldn't have arrived in my hands to fix.
You forgot to mention the Peter North Special Sauce. But for real some of these jobs are just crazy, I used to be a mechanic and its the about the same thing. I'm glad Voultar does these videos it at least helps people deal with these kind of situations, the professional way.
Yeah, I'll admit I've hacked together some abominations that I'm not proud of, but they're temporary test fixtures that never leave my lab and never see the light of day. I sure as shit wouldn't sell them to anyone. "It's ugly but it works" doesn't really fly with me when you're taking people's money.
@@DRFTER34 I'm pretty sure he mentioned the "Peter North Special Sauce"... could be wrong tho...
Ryan Paul he did mention the peter north special sauce 14:18
You sound like an angry Bob Ross. This is fantastic. "Lets just remove these happy little goddamn wires"
Happy accidents.
I was saying the same thing.
He's a Bob Ross that lost his patience with bad console mods
"Let's just *SOLDER* the *crap* out of it."
Bob Ross used to be a drill sergeant, so...
This is like watching those channels where they nurse wounded animals back to health, except with retro consoles.
Big thumbs up from me.
NES Ranch.
Lole!
Maybe he had electrodes in the whole time he filmed this. As much as he praised god and sounded like was getting an orgasm, I was thoroughly scared for him. You know that point when he said he was getting a drink, maybe that was too much for him and he had to readjust.
As you challenge yourself to more and more difficult soldering, I think everyone has those moments where you just finally got the damn thing to stick, but it's kinda fragile and you just want to immobilize it so you don't have to do it again.
Adhesive is fine, but don't put it ON the solder joint. Put it on the wires *away* from the solder joint. That way anyone who has to rework or repair it down the line has an easier time.
The most I have done is about a year ago the cable for my pc keyboard was broken (I dropped it so many times) I cut the broken piece off and didn't have heat shrink small enough for the wires and yet if I didn't coat them when they touched they kept shorting, I knew superglue wouldn't work so just put a small amount of hot glue on each wire so I they didn't short and could still fit heat shrink over the thicker cable.
Still works to this way.
Oh no, where'd crayola king's big angry comment chain go?
Thanks for fixing my console. Can’t wait to get it back. Now I see why the colors would be inverted on resets.
It was my pleasure. I'm sorry it had to be done. But I hope your speed-running video quality looks better now.
Sadly, it's a furry who does all those mods xDDD
@NiggaNig420 chronicboy take your medication, don't worry the nurses are coming to retrieve you. with comments like that, you clearly aren't safe to be released back into society...
its good to see your in touch with reality, keep the medication flowing and continue being "Edgy". you insult like a 12 year old kid especially with that troll username aswell. good luck in life hopefully you get institutionalized as with an attitude like that you shouldn't be roaming free in society. troll or not...
NiggaNig420 chronicboy So sorry that we cannot give you the attention you so desperately crave...
I've only ever done one mod (adding a coax digital audio out to my original XBox) but seeing what the eBay seller has done, knowing I could do it better, I think I might get back into modding. Thanks for the motivation!
5 years later, the content as much as the vocabulary still holds up!
You are a highlight of my workdays, you make me feel like Bob Ross did in the late ‘80s.
Thanks man!
I personally would have liked to see a shot of the final wiring to see what it should have looked like... Even better would have been a before and after shot...
Louis Rossman would get a Heartattack seeing this!
It would not surprise me if he thought he was getting trolled.
I bet Louis Rossmann would, too.
Not anymore. When he saw the terrible cooling with a useless fan and horrible manufacturing flaws of MacBook boards this year, he won't be surprised anymore.
Peter North's special sauce. LMFAO man I love your sense of humor Voultar
I can understand the hot glue, but why right on the joint? Why not use just a tiny dab a half inch or so up the wire?
Because he smoked the dab before doing the mod
Yes, you are correct. Also needing to not place it on a SMT component, or a chip leg, or anything that may need to be accessed for repair.
Plus, couldn't all that hot glue prevent proper heat dissipation?
I use hot glue to hold my soldering in place, epoxy to hold my hot glue in place and then electrical tape to hold my epoxy in place. If I'm shipping the console out I just fill it with cement to keep things nice and secure, it costs more obviously but people are happy to pay extra for quality workmanship.
"Introduce some nice silver bearing" You do realize the added silver to the solder alloy is to stop the leeching of precious metals from contacts right, like to keep the gold where it is...? It has zero other purpose. Ah, nevermind, no one will ever listen.
i would assume he probably considers solder that contains silver to be of a higher quality.
by the time youre adding silver to the mix, it gets so much more expensive, that its probably got a better composition than generic solder in other ways too.
Anything involving a heat cycle I want lead in my solder...I'm not going to let my kids chew on it.
Isn't lead free solder the reason the "red ring of death" happened? Heat flex causing the cooling clamp that was designed with lead solder in mind to malfunction allowing the solder to fracture and or disconnect?
@@skizzik121 Pretty sure the toasty PPC + insufficient cooling is more than enough to cause issues like that. If you look at the XBONE they left lots of room and overengineered cooling so it wont happen again.
@@haraldhimmel5687 but when is cooling ever truly overengineered when it comes to computers? I knew it had something to do with heat causing an issue somewhere on the 360
@@skizzik121 It wasn't exactly a bad thing, just that they seemed overly cautious not to possibly get a problem there again.
Switches look like they are positioned to ensure minimum damage to surrounding area after repeated use. Console shell stabilty, zero cracks etc?
TH-cam keeps recommending this to me, and I keep watching it again and again, and every time I'm caught off guard and laughing again at the part about Miriam at the school dance. 🤣
Voultar demands you be ascetically pleasing from the back, remember that ladys! Also, I'm starting to want a video on "appropriate" hot glue usage.
For NESRGB installations, I can't recommend using Borti's IGR palette switch enough; cheap and easy to build, zero external modification needed and all the palette options are easily accessible using controller button combinations.
"I dont know why people do this"
It looks like hes made good mechanical connections, he probably used the hot glue to ensure it would live through shipping
Clearly not.
LMAO @ 14:02, "4 sticks of hot glue, of Peter North special sauce"
This looks like the work of Drakon.
I recognize that cable, it's flat pair telephone cable, I would guess probably 8-conductor? 6- and 8-conductor flat cable were often used for carrying multiple normal telephone lines, ISDN, etc, but the most common use in the past few decades is for Cisco-style phone jack serial connectors. At a previous job we often had dozens of systems with serial consoles all wired up to an avocent/cyclades serial concentrator/terminal server and we used cable that looked exactly like that.
Please show the result of your work in the end. Let us see if it's working or not. Anyway thanks for your videos
I'm working on a camera setup that will let me do that. Right now, the camera kinda has to stay where it is. Thank you for the feedback, tho!
Your modded case is so much cleaner/nicer than the origional, both are okay but your is a winner. Glue is okay as long as it's not on the solder points, but in this case it shouldn't of even been needed haha, good work man awesome video :)
Hearing voultar angry makes my day... I dunno why
I never normally watch these type of videos but I have to admit, I loved this!!! Well Done @Voultar
As for the people that misunderstand the point - God help them! They need to realise that these modders make money out of THEM!!! When it goes tits up because a mod is bad... You are the one out of pocket... You know you were buying a modded system so Ebay DOES NOT PROTECT YOU! IT IS YOUR RISK - SO ALWAYS ASK FOR PICTURES!!! it is not to demonise Ebay Modders but to Educate!!!
As for Sowing down the Soldering sections - Nah! Maybe though you could start some tutorials - As I think thats what people want... I have to admit, You have encouraged me to get back into electronics and Tutorials on how to Solder PROPERLY... Yeah, That would be GREAT! I think thats why they want you to slow it down...
Guy who did this clearly subscribes to the "Da bigger da glob, da better da job!" school of application of securing product...
justa dabble dooya! :)
and also they think grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't.
I preferred watching the Gametech dude rip open some of Drakon's work.
I feel like you are being a bit harsh about the glue on the wires, the point of that is to keep the relatively brittle solder joint from being the point of flexture in case there is tension on the wires. It moves the stresses a bit further down the wire so it evenly bends the insulation and unsoldered stands inside the cable more evenly. (though you won't gain much structural integrity if it's solid core) Also it removes the risk of using a chemical type of glue or epoxy that could have vinegar or acid that attacks the traces on the board.
Not saying you are wrong in that it's pretty much uneeded, but it doesn't really hurt unless it accidentally makes an insulator where unwanted, loose strands of it ending up in sockets etc. Otherwise a lot of manufacturers secure mechanical parts with hot glue and RTV, it's an acceptable practice.
I agree, even Ben Heck uses hot glue in his builds and that guy really does know what he's doing. I've seen bad hack jobs and this isn't one.. Also 60/40 lead solder is much better than the silver stuff. It's just not as environmentally friendly. Louis Rossman uses leaded solder to fix MACs all the time.
@@GMCLabs Maybe I'm forgetting some videos, but I don't recall Ben Heck ever pouring hot glue all over the solder joints. He'll put some hot glue on the wires to hold them in place, but he doesn't dump an entire bag of glue sticks onto the solder joints. This is most definitely a bad hack job.
@Coldern Ice unless there is mechanical strain relief built into the cable, it's very common. As someone who has been into low voltage electrical assemblies. If mechanical considerations weren't a priority at design or cost prohibitive, hot glue is pretty frequently used, especially on rowed conductors.
From the looks of it, perhaps mr.crayons needs a tabletop magnifying glass lamp.
My god.....another Peter North special. At least he's staying busy.
austin532 Everybody who picked up that reference to Peter North are disgusting perverts!
And proud of it, tofuman.
Peter North, Ron Jeremy, Harry Reems, and John Holmes couldn't product that much 'hot glue'.
i burst out laughing at that which i normally wouldnt do or admit haha
Havnt heard that name in years
The reason alcohol works is because it is thin enough to get between the surface material and the hot glue. Hot glue works because of negative air pressure funnily enough, it has nothing really to do with sticking so to speak, the alcohol breaks the air tight vacuum and normalises the area air pressure. Anyway, that was my two cents, great video Voultar.
I understand using hot glue to secure some wires that may need support but this is pretty overused here. Still though its miles better than tape. The one thing that gets me with stuff like this is people need to clean their work. Flux is everywhere. I understand you technically don't have to clean flux but some brands of flux can be acidic and corrosive.
Thank goodness for that loin preparedness warning. My loins have been spared.
Now Voultar my friend, you know damn well anyone worth a shot as a modder uses a minimum of 15-20 sticks of Elmer's"Peter North" Edition Hot Glue! Don't let your jealousy of superior modding get the better of you...🤣😂🤣😂 I actually managed to type that with a straight face! BTW for the tools with zero sense of humor & common sense, yes I am completely joking & Voultar knows that! I did after all refer to him as "Mozart with a soldering iron"...
" this peter north special size" LMFAO you are the most entertaining mod video maker. You have made working on electronics cool. which in my day was not possible ( although nobody ever complained when I rewired their bike or car)... cheers brother
4:28 actually hearing a swear made me burst in laughter - thank you HAHAHA
AND IT JUST KEPT GETTING BETTER OMG
Thank you so much for teaching me a new trick today. Had no idea IPA could soften up hot snot like that. Had I watched this forever ago, this would have helped me save so much time repairing many chinesium imported things over the years.
this is master peace comparet to the DRAKONs "work" :D
Called him out AGAIN!....
"Peter North Special Sauce" is the best quote of this video.
sure the glue is excessive but, do you seriously not understand the purpose of glue? it's not being done correctly here, but in many rework applications it is used to provide strain relief.
This is what I came to say.
Actually, yes and no.
Sure, it provides strain relief, but only at that point. When done thoughtlessly like this, all it does is move the strain further up and solves nothing.
Go and look at a common or garden power supply for any electronics. Look at the power cable. Note that the strain relief is applied where the cable is shrouded and strong enough to take it.
This is a perfect example of someone modding without knowing what theyre doing. They know a little but not enough.
Hot glue can be used, and used effectively, but unless you apply it correctly and in the correct situation, you can be making matters worse.
I strongly recommend you go watch what an experienced electronics designer like dave jones did monstrates about hot glue on his eevblog channel.
whoops, my off-the-cuff comment missed a few things. glue over the connection does seem bad since it barely moves the point of strain relief at all. I'd imagine a more effective solution (for mods or rework only of course) would be globbing the wire down at least a few cm away from the solder point. Of course better would be through-hole soldering (ideally with plated-through holes) to provide enough strength to get the wire to the chassis, but that's not a luxury modders get very often.
Glue OVER the joint is utterly idiotic and a _nightmare_ to rework. Glue or some other strain relief NEXT to the joint is ideal and definitely a "real production technique."
lordy
This was so pleasing to watch
who needs a soldering iron when you can hotglue everything!
Watching this in 2020 and I am dying from laughter. All of the "Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" and "Peter North Special Sauce" had me in stitches. Great job bringing that poor NES back to life!
@ 29:00 . After all the emphasis about the aesthetics of the mod installation, I found it funny that you swapped the Green and Blue wires while soldering them up. You soldered the blue wire to the "G" green output pad and the green wire to the "B" blue output pad.
If not for anything else, bad work like this can serve the positive purpose of helping people truly appreciate good work. Not all modders are created equal.
I had to google who Peter North was. God damn you.
It took me 9 months to understand that reference, but after digging deep in my memories, i finally did.
Shit! "Beyond the scope..." My ass! I came here to learn. You squandered a great opportunity to talk about signal error correction! Not only that, but you did a fantastic job with that multi out and talked about solder chemistry yet you left in hot glue and bad solder on the CPU. You slippin! I am aware this video is pretty old but still.
Voultar's video speaks for itself....with that said, I have a top loader that Crayola modded. I bought it earlier this year, and it didn't look as bad as the one in this video. Not nearly as much hot glue, except on the PPU. I took pictures right after I got it. Here are the pictures: imgur.com/a/9j8hN My critiques were the hot glue on the PPU (not a big deal, tbh), how mangled, and uneven the PPU looked, also a screw was loose that held the case together. I didn't have any missing screws.
I've even communicated with Crayola, and he's a guy that's constantly honing his skill, improving his equipment and is pretty knowledgeable about the modding community in general. He will talk your ear off, when it comes to soldering. He stands by his work, and prides himself in not price gouging.
The soldering to the NESRGB output pads is quite good in those pictures.
These pictures were taken immediately after receiving the top loader. After having watched your video's, and the video's featured on GameTechUS, I felt like I had an idea of what to look out for. I was looking for dull blobby solder, and an ass ton of hot glue. I didn't find it. The only hot glue I can remember was the glue you see on the PPU. I'm not even certain there was glue on the connectors, and switches, but I can't remember. It wouldn't bother me, if there was. As long as they are mechanically held in place, I can live with a little extra glue. As you illustrated in your video, it's easy to remove. I just don't want to see hot glue hiding a bad solder job.
I get a warning from Mcafee about this site, they claim the connection is not private and my bank data is at risk
Andrew Hayes on what site?
imgur.com/a/9j8hN
coating components and wires with hot glue is the cheap Chinese equivalent of using drops of silicone on components and cable-tieing bundles wires in industrial electronics. What I find more disturbing is the use of non-shielded phone cable for transmitting analogue video signals in a environment full of rf
Wow did the eBay seller delete his comment he made XD
What did the seller said?
Did he? I can't find the comment.
I watched a lot of YTPs and what came to mind was "Did the seller delete his coc?"
"aesthetically pleasing in the back."
Voultar you good be one of the worlds greatest massage therapist.
“Mr. North special sauce.” 😂
i love how other techs blame other techs, even on the smallest things eh... i personally make a point of not blaming any one else who has worked on the device prior and just get it done, and charged out (:
That moment you made that sweet sweet solder line, I subbed.
Hey Voutar dont know if you remember me. I'm the guy you tried to repair my m82 demo unit. (the one with the issue on the last 3 slots) i didnt know you had a youtube channel defiantly subbing. i just wanted to say sorry about coming off the handle a few years back. i was steamed and wasn't thinking straight since i had spent a lot of money on it and nothing was fixing. i thought about sending it off to ben heck to see if he could fix it but i just gave up and shelved it as is for now.
Nice video btw! ive been installing nes and n64 hdmi mod chips and repairing virtual boys more recently using the new hakko solder station i got. seems you have the notorious work of drakon Hes a hot glue freak. So much that i bet he makes hot glue condoms and uses them lol jk.
🤔 Ben Heck's done two M82 repair videos recently...
@@mjc0961 yeah i know. the secound one was mine :P unfortunately shipping took a crap on it when i got it back so i had to claim insurance on it.
all these tips on how to solder are extremely helpful for novices for any application thank you for all the explanation
Rather than being nasty about people's soldering abilities why don't you do tutorials on how to solder properly
It blows my mind when I see that people who do work like this manage to get customers, but I do everything right and people won't buy from me. Doesn't make any sense.
Hot Glue? Sounds like Drakan...
Say what you want about this guy, but he's the Bob Ross of electronics. But with more cursing. Everything this man says should be on a t-shirt
Learning allot about how to rework pads and wicking. Very glad I watch you.
I love to hear Voultar complain about these shady eBay sellers. I work retail and have to deal with people want to get price matching of eBay. I laughed at a customer who asked me to price match eBay on a new Ultimate Ears speaker to a refurbished Ultimate Ears speaker on eBay. I laughed to his face and mocked him by asking this customer in the most jackass tone of voice if they'd price match eBay (if the situation we're reversed).
I can't stand greedy resellers who are just poor grade people in regards to personal development and they have the nerve to think that their half-ass efforts should be rewarded with a big financial incentive.
Voultar is awesome and his soldering work is hypnotic, soothing to watch, and magical.
I think that Voultar should make a series about Douche and Dance shady eBay sellers. I love it.
A solder joint so perfect, we can see your mug in it
Not a catalyst, IPA is a solvent.
IPA reacts to hot-glue without its chemistry being affected. Solvent's *can* be catalyst's. :-D
Voultar It's not a catalyst because it is not accelerating an already occurring reation.
KIM JONG ILLZ!
Epic troll, bro.
I cant even fathom being this pathetic.
I also hate hotglue but it is a common practice to use it like that. Maybe it is overkill but it has some benefits.
really no need for the hot glue, the soldering was fine...well i know it could be better but it was good enough
I don't understand much of this, but you turned into Solid Snake for a second, and then talked about micro ferrets. Time to subscribe!
Those drama sighs.
I guess the benefit of bad soldering and excess glue is that it’s easier to remove and start over.
kinda looks like Drakon
TBH, hot glue is a good idea. The solder joint creates a stress riser in the wire, so it's likely to fatigue just after the joint if not glued.
Thank god for your OCD, I agree visible mods should be aesthetically (and sexually) pleasing.
I think I do that randomly placed switch was pissing me off.
I also like it when things are "Aesthetically Pleasing" from behind ;)
Hey Voultar, what Flux do you use?
You're solid snake impression at 18:50 is on point tho😂
Prepare them loins boyz!! Hahahaha!
エステティック Funk lmfao! He is such a cutie isn't he?!? Looks like a Calvin Klein model....
Love your videos man. Anyone who shows this amount of attention to detail on anything (especially retro consoles!) have a thumbs up from me. As you say, regardless of whether the thing works or the inner workings aren't seen...if a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing well. Out of interest, what solder/brand do you tend to use on the pcb's you fix? Keep up the good work
Interesting, didn't know you are supposed to bridge those connections when using "standard" SNES cables. It's been working fine, but I will post an update to my own NES RGB install video to reflect that now. I have also been using the TTL sync output, which has worked fine so I am assuming that is correct but now I'm not so sure. Thanks!
"His Peter North Special Sauce". OMG. Too funny. Thanks I needed a good laugh.
Well, other than the poor desoldering of the PPU, I don't really see anything wrong with that guys' soldering work, I mean, personally, I wouldn't use hot glue directly on the contacts, instead, I would stick the wire to the solder-mask somewhere nearby, and I do that with all solder points I deem to fragile, such as wires attached to legs of smd chips and trace repair, so I wouldn't consider it a negative unless I had to work on it at a later date, and you proved how easy it is to remove it, so even that isn't a problem.
But for all intensive purposes, I'd never have any of my consoles modded by someone else, and would never mod someone else's console, I just can't be bothered with customer service, besides, what's the point of having a modded console if you didn't mod it yourself? Modding it is the best part, there's no better feeling then turning a console on after installing a mod and having it work perfectly (although it doesn't always work first time... damn R-JTAGed XBOX 360 with its tiny solder points and thin traces).
Daniel M ""for all INTENTS and purposes""
Smh
Otherwise agreed with what you said.
You need more references to Jesus Christ, the LDS church, and God....either that or you just need more cow bell.
I feel your pain bro. Bought a modded NesPi case on Ebay a while back, and the soldering job was terrible. -- Same with source code (on blogs, and wherever), most of what you find is garbage and needs a ton of rework. There's gotta be a 90% rule in here somewhere.
That solder work is awful. It looks like the first time I tried to remove and socket a CPU / PPU from the NES using solder braid. I have since improved my solder work vastly with practice and better tools like a desoldering station and better iron. That kind of work may be OK for personal use, but I would never try and sell something with such poor mod work. I thought this guy has been doing mods for a some time, so I would think he would have improved a little. Maybe he is still using a cheap iron with solder braid because he spent all his money on glue sticks.
why did you hot glue this console
when are you gunna do guide to global monitor edition
Can we institute a console modding license system?
That has to be one of the most sensible comments I have seen so far! :)
it’s gotta be aesthetically pleasing, even in the back. your my favourite rapper!
A lot of the big electronics manufacturers use hot glue as strain relief and that's what it looks like the original modder was doing here, I'd rather have a bit of hot glue on some wires than have the wires fracture at the soldier join through vibration.
In my experience if there is every something hot glued by a manufacturer it isn't ever glued to a PCB, usually plastic in the case or something. I have however seen laptop manufacturers use Kapton tape, which I believe Voultar also doesn't like? I'll agree to disagree on that point though.
@rangergreen235 You are absolutely right - That tape is common in ACER laptops... But they are generally cheap builds so you expect that... And in my experience as well teh only time you ever see hot glue from a major Electronics Manufacturer is on the Plastics or Casing... NEVER the wiring!
And there is actually a reason for that! The glue while it can help relieve strain can also hold in heat... So it can if used INCORRECTLY short out the PCB's.
If Soldered properly - You should NEVER need Hot Glue in a Console or PC... Some children's toys maybe... (After all they will get moved, Bumped, Chucked around so there you need teh extra strain relief)... But that should NOT be required in general electronics.
I haven't done PC repair professionally in a while, probably about 2012. But I can tell you for sure, that Apple, Dell, Toshiba, and Acer used kapton tape. Here's an example from ifixit d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/JlFi1kXDMaxdd4fs.medium It was also pretty common that manufacturers would tape down the wires for the wifi antennas and the data cable for webcams.
To be clear, I wasn't advocating for it's use, I just meant that it isn't crazy.
This is a stationary game console, with stationary wiring inside. It doesn't need strain relief. And that's not what tape is for in a laptop either, it's so wires are in a convenient spot when they close the lid and don't interfere.
Saitek uses (used) hot glue on wires and joints.
You just proved to me how talented of a modder you are.
Damn bro, pretty critical huh? " When you do things like this"..... Like have a button 2-3cm lower than the other switch? Your OCD does not apply to the actual overall function of a produc. lol wtf...
I'm not big on these type of videos, but fuck... this was so entertaining to watch. Subbed.
saw you leave a cold joint on the ppu, closed the video as soon as i saw that, wanted to cry
it could be a Drakon Mod but hmm meh is too little hot glue
telling us about to ask every time for pictures, but wont show us his own wiring? lol
The thing about this is the glue I hate when people use hot glue. For two reasons one once the glue becomes old it starts to turn a nasty brown colour and becomes conductive witch can really mess things up on the board. Two it dosnt look professional to me at all it looks like a quick slap job.
Everyone complaining about this video being unnecessary, or, 'nitpicky, need to stop complaining and take it for what it is. This isnt exactly saying that the mod was done 'wrong' persay, more that it was done in a poor way. What I mean is, that though it worked, it was cosmetically inferior to the revised version, and, was cheaply done, what with the switches not being lined up, and the ridiculous amounts of hot glue (not to mention the lack of the simple solution @Voultar used, using a N64 output, which was arguably much better than a second switch). He was simply revising a 'eh' mod, into a more professionally done one. His criticisms were valid and his work was sound. Stop complaining about the video you chose to watch.
Editor Damien You know I have actually used chewing gum to repair stripped out board mounts when in the field temporarily because it was all that was available. Fact in order to have strain relief glue is applied away from the solder joints , not directly on them. I have no issues if it is used as an electrical insulator. As far as switches not being inline that is a matter of OCD compulsion. I saw many things that were viewed as my way or no way.
That solder looks like the left overs from using chip-quik that can't last long, it dries so fast that seems like cold joints.
is that a textured top NES?
Tails64DS NT Channel what is that?
some of the later consoles have a grained finish on the top and bottom plastics, where most consoles have smooth plastic..
Tails64DS NT Channel oh ok thanks. Yeah I figured it was a different style texture finish like grainy compared to smooth, just wasn't sure if it has been narrowed down to a specific time frame or anything internally different as well. Interesting, as I never knew of that before.
Yup. The top is textured on it.
Bro you need more subs. You are the funniest retro console worker I have seen on youtube.