{"id":33,"date":"2011-01-12T20:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T04:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/?p=33"},"modified":"2025-03-18T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:26:20","slug":"original-nes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/2011\/01\/12\/original-nes\/","title":{"rendered":"Original NES"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got my NES the other day off ebay\/local pickup.\u00a0 It came with a couple games, so of course I had to plug it in and try out Zelda II: The Adventure of Link :).\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was of much lower quality than the emulators I’m used to.\u00a0 This could be due to my TV not properly de-interlacing\/upconverting, but it also looked like there may have been slight corruption of the video signal.<\/p>\n

Here it is, the original Nintendo Entertainment System – there’s slight UV exposure damage (yellow discoloration) from years of life.\u00a0 You can barely see on the top where something else was covering it, and it is not damaged.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a shot of it with its top off – and IO shield removed:<\/p>\n

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Here’s the underside of the main board.\u00a0 The only 3 connectors to it are the 2 joysticks and wires to the Power, Reset, and power LED.\u00a0 The power supply module is soldered on with a ton of solder, as can be seen in the previous picture.<\/p>\n

\"NES<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is what I have to work with.\u00a0 The insides are all removed:<\/p>\n

\"NES<\/a><\/p>\n

I made a template for a 6.7 x 6.7 inch Mini-ITX board.\u00a0 As you can see, its going to be a tight fit.\u00a0 In order to keep the original power\/reset switches, I’m going to have to mount the board with some space underneath.\u00a0 That’s likely where I’ll put the hard drive, then.<\/p>\n

\"NES<\/a><\/p>\n

The inside dimensions of the NES are: 9″ wide, 7.75″ long, and 3.25″ tall.<\/p>\n

I’ll be using the various vent holes visible to put fans on for airflow.\u00a0 I’ll likely add a large intake hole on the back as well.\u00a0 There’s vents on the top of the whole right side.\u00a0 I imagine the airflow will be intakes on the left vents (plus added vent on left rear), and exhaust on the right side vents.\u00a0 I may add vents to the bottom if necessary too, and the existing holes on the right (originally composite video and mono audio jacks) will probably become a vent.\u00a0 All this venting will depend on the CPU temperature when running stress tests.<\/p>\n

Finally, here’s an image of the bottom with the Zotac board photoshoped in the same size as my template.\u00a0 I played around with this to determine airflow.\u00a0 I marked potential intake vents in blue and exhaust in red.\u00a0 I still need to research this some though, to determine if maybe more intake is better and reverse the flow since there’s a huge top vent on the right.<\/p>\n

\"Airflow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got my NES the other day off ebay\/local pickup.\u00a0 It came with a couple games, so of course I had to plug it in and try out Zelda II: The Adventure of Link :).\u00a0 Unfortunately, it was of much lower quality than the emulators I’m used to.\u00a0 This could be due to my TV […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertbyam.com\/ces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}