Showing posts with label Super Nintendo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Nintendo. Show all posts

Thursday, July 26, 2012

NES Consoles and Accessories for Sale on Amazon:

Items: 
6 working original Nintendo consoles
11 working controllers
4 light guns ("Zappers")
5 power supplies (note that one is not working, two are 800 and 600 mAmp rather than 1.3A, still work, however: I would recommend upgrading the 600mAmp to at least 800mAMP with a spare from an ARC thrift store or just a cheapo ordered online)

Multiple coax attachments (I recommend just using composite because of the better quality audio and video it gives: videos linked below of all the consoles being used--6, one for each console--are connected to the tv via composite cables: the original power supplies--minus the one that isn't working--are all used, and also the supplies whose amperages are 800 and 600 mAmp, just to ensure their functioning)

7 Game Cartridges
--3 Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt
--1 Super Mario Bros 3
--1 Top Gun: The Second Mission
--1 Gyromite
--1 Skate or Die



1 Akklaim Wirless (IR) Controller Sensor (Unfortunately controller is not included--I don't have one) (SOLD)

Videos (Youtube - one for each distinct console):

Console 1
Console 2
Console 3
Console 4
Console 5
Console 6

I have separately tested every individual controller as well, having a particularly good time doing so with Mario Bros 3. ;~)





Contact me in interest to pick-up a classic console, some controls, zappers, games, etc.! Just add a comment to the blog and I will see it in the moderation area: it may take a few days for me to reply. If you are finding this first at my blog and are not in Colorado, I can send you to pages on Amazon where I am selling these things or I can finally set-up some electronic payment accounts that I need to anyways, take payment, and mail you the bunch (though before giving the total price I will have to determine the shipping costs of your particular order); if you arrived for details from Amazon, welcome to my blog!

Note that these could make a great gift for some nerd on his/her birthday or for the holidays! There is even a major demand for the original controllers vs. the many generics, as they function/behave and feel different, and these are original, so keep that in mind.

Fun and Headaches with the NES: Resources

For Description of NESes and related items for sale on Amazon, click on the link below:
  Description of NESes and Peripherals for Sale on Amazon

Below are Resources to:
   1. Deal with the blinking light issue that appears randomly with every NES.
   2. Mod the NES, care for cartridges.
   3. Replace the power supply (or get one that will work).

The "Blinking Red Light" [of Death] was (and so is) a common issue that crops up with practically every NES console ever made (unfortunately): anyone who has played with an NES can tell you about it.

Seen here with an easy, but per-instance fix:


The blinking red light does not (usually) signal actual death in most cases. When this starts you may not get a video output, may get a purple (or as I have also found, red, or yellow, or blue) screen rather than the game video output, may get blinking or lines. The one case it may signal death is when the chip responsible has died (I would guess), but in any case for a permanent fix here are some good resources:

Video for disassembly and easy method to resolve blinking red light:



Guide to do the same with insructions to build-in a switch to enable and disable the chip in case of finding a rare game that relies upon the fourth pin (that the permanent fixes disable) of the security chip:

http://raphnet.net/electronique/nes_mod/nes_mod_en.php#4. This link goes to a specific section of a larger page of NES modification and care resources that are quite cool.

Be sure, however, to see his disclaimer, which also applies here! (If you follow these guides or imitate these videos, you do so at your own risk: I am simply assembling links to reading material of potential interest to NES owners, and not suggesting or recommending that you actually do any of this!)

Replacing the Power Supply: 
Of course, any plug/cord/supply must fit the NES. The official power supplies released in America for the NES that I have read:

     Input: AC120V, 60Hz, 17W
     Output: AC 9V, 1.3 A[mps]

But I have some running on adapters with as little as 600m[illi]A[mps] and experience no problems. It turns out that"the power coming from the power supply is converted to DC and lowered to 5 volts using a simple lm7805 voltage regulator" in the console itself (http://raphnet.net/electronique/nes_mod/nes_mod_en.php#5), so the raphnet author writes
"This means that giving 12 volts to the NES will not damage it (however, please note that the regulator will generate a little more heat). Since the NES expects AC, you can supply the NES with DC power without having to check the polarity."
and that, like me, he has been using a .6A supply that "[s]o far [...] has worked flawlessly with the NES." Mine is for an old cell phone, his is for an "old cable modem"!

And now you have resources to fix various problems with the NES, or NES problems, encountered frequently by people who buy and use the Super Nintendo. Have fun!