I opened it and fortunately things look good. No spiders, no baby hand skeletons.

Everything looks remarcablky clean. I didn't expect this, but fuck am I glad.

So, afer taking it apart I found the part which needs replacing. Please tell me there's no soldering needed. If there is, the project stops here for tonight until I can send it to a repair shop. I know soldering is probably easy, but I haven't learned.

This thread gives me ROB thread vibes. Good luck on your repairs anon.

>>978527 It's just a simple ZIF connector. Unscrew and remove the old one, slap the new one on. Most new make connectors are made so you don't even have to push down the cartridge anymore.

>>978533 Got it! It was stuck so it seemed to me like it was soldered, but I was able to take it out. Thanks!

>>978527 On the off-chance that you have no fucking idea what the hell I just said here >>978533 ZIF stands for Zero Insertion Force. The NES connector is literally a double-female-ended connector, they slide off both the main board and the cartridge with similar ease. So there's no soldering whatsoever. The original design was to try to make it more like VCRs of the time because the Video Game Crash of the '80s did its damage and trying to look not like a game machine to ease fears of "it's just going to be the same fucking games over and over again." Sadly the NES ZIF connector was a flaky piece of shit that was guaranteed to fucking fail over time. A more permanent fix would be to take a fucking bandsaw to the bottom portion and wire up a dedicated cartridge connector that requires a little bit of force and then mount it onto the cartridge tray. While I appreciate new model connectors so you don't need to lower the cartridge in the tray, it's ultimately a lazy non-fix of a flaw. >>978537 Good. Be sure to clean the pin headers with alcohol while you've got it off.

New connector, on. Let's re-assemble it all and test it.

OK, so the cartrisge fits perfectly. It's time to re-assemble it and test it, I guess. Wish me luck.

>>978551 Technically you can test it with the RF shield off and the plastic cover off. That way if it works you can then fully assemble it without having to worry about having to take it apart again.

>>978552 >you can test it with the RF shield off and the plastic cover off Yes, now that I think about it... And guess what! It totally works. It already feels way more stable. I know the video itself doesn't look too good, but the screen is crisp! The video doesn't capture the screen right, but trust me, this looks fine! I think I have most of the working ROMs that work for this flash cart. What should I play as a celebration?

>>978576 Castlevania 3. Waifu playthrough with Sypha.

>>978578 Will give it a try! Would be cool since I've never played a Castlevania before.

As I said I never playes a Castlevania before, but it's fun! https://files.catbox.moe/qrken0.mp4

>>978520 Are you using an original connector from a donor console? There is a new aftermarket connector out there that's supposed to be better than previous aftermarket ones, maybe it's worth checking out: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=4lpCNMxGW3s (I don't own a NES, so I have no idea if it's any good, but the topic reminded me of it)

Protip: The Everdrive's PCB is thick enough that you don't usually need to push the cartridge down after inserting it. Also makes accessing the SD card a bit easier.

With that FC you can play Disc System games, OP Some are very shocking to see, considering it's a Nintendo system.

Does an Everdrive hold all the games?

>>979631 The Everdrive website says it supports micro SD cards up to 32GB which is way way more than enough to hold the entire NES and famicom library.

>>979658 There's also a wealth of homebrew games, and excellent ROM hacks. The only downside of the Everdrive is that it can't do the FUCKHUGE games like that Legend of Link hack that looks like Link's Awakening. You need an FX Pak Pro or whatever, but if you don't care about the very few games that need it, you're more than set with an Everdrive. I also recommend getting one for Genesis, as it works with Master System and 32X games (requires a 32X for the latter, naturally)

You know what's fun? these cheap NES to SNES adapters. At first I thought it would be totally lame because they depend on their own RCA cables, so it's more like the adapter itself is basically a NES clone, but someone gave me this and it's great! Also, I've been having fun with these NES cartridges they sell. Finally, some bootleg cartridges without repeats. They're even thematic now! The TNMT version doesn't come with a great selection of games, they're mostly early games, but the Mega Man cartridge is pretty amazing.

>>1012989 >Legend of Link That hacker does NES to SNES hacks with no adapter too.

Been listenan to FamiTracker chiptune OC, making a playlist. Give me your best.

>>1012989 >TNMT

I'm playing Sunsoft's 1993 platformer "Gimmick!" on NES/Famicom to prepare for its sequel, "Gimmick! 2," that came out a week ago.

>>1013677 Metroidvania or linear?

>>1013710 Normal platformer, see Wikipedia entry. >Gimmick![a], released in Scandinavia as Mr. Gimmick, is a platform video game developed and published by Sunsoft, and originally released in Japan for the Family Computer in 1992. The story follows a small green yōkai named Yumetaro who was mistakenly gifted as a toy to a young girl. After the girl's toys come to life and whisk the girl away to another dimension, Yumetaro gives chase to save her. Playing as Yumetaro, the player must maneuver through a variety of levels, using the protagonist's star-shooting power to defeat enemies and progress through the game.

>>1013677 Oh fuck, it got a sequel. I heard about Ufouria but not this one. Thanks from a NES fan.

>>1013728 >>1014037 I don't have high hopes for it. The original staff isn't working on it. In fact the director of gimmick, Tomomi Sakai, found out about the sequel when everyone else did.

I played Gimmick 2, it's better than Tomomi Sakai's Gimmick on NES. The yokai protagonist Yumetaro controls the same, except movement's tighter. The "gimmick of Gimmick" is Yumetaro can grow a star on top of his head which he can then throw, and he can hop on the star he just threw to get a boost. The platforming design isn't a vanilla run-and-jump-athon, screens are fleshed out around these star mechanics which engages your mind. The cute veneer hides a challenge, some secret treasures are tricky to find or reach, and platforming starts to get hard right after pic rel in the 2nd level. Music blew me away and sounds like Donkey Kong Country. Aesthetics are okay, levels look painted with many layers of parallax backgrounds that look better in motion. It's no Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but a fine experience that went too unnoticed.

Now bring back StarTropics for a StarTropics III.

>>1014634 It doesn't sound like DKC at all even if it's David Wise, not nearly as much effort.

>>1014634 >>1014888 Admittedly I haven't tried this game, but if it's true the same composer did DKC and G2 I'd wager in a blind "taste test" people would prefer a random track in G2 over that in DKC. Composers get better over 3 decades at work, and SNES music sounds badly compressed, technology has advanced since then.

>>1013187 TMNT's dam level was hard enough the creator failed to beat it.

>>1015044 Wasn't there a bug that made Battletoads unbeatable with two players because no one on QA made it to Clinger Winger?

>>1015044 Easy enough if you can tap buttons with varying levels of frequency. The Technodrome is complete horseshit, full of FUCK YOU tunnels where you can't dodge incoming attacks. >>1015052 Yeah, the killer widget moves before the players can, killing both every time.

>>1015052 >>1015081 TMR beat 2-player, the workaround is finishing it with Rash while Zitz retains a continue, then having Zitz rejoin between levels.

>>1015122 Huh. cool. Just heard it was unbeatable as a rumor.

>>1015140 that faggot spits gender pozz dont post his face here

>>1015162 That's why they split?

>>1015162 What's with science spokesmen embracing fedoraism? Sagan, Tyson, Nye, the Mythbusters. >>1015165 I heard but never verified the Mythbusters hate each other. If they do, it explains why neither Jamie nor Adam renewed their contracts.

>>1015165 idk go ask the foxdick drama club

>>1015170 >What's with science spokesmen embracing fedoraism? Sagan, Tyson, Nye, the Mythbusters. Science is a cult and "science spokesmen" are its priests.

Anyone read old Nintendo Powers?

>>1015170 I don't think "fedoraism" makes sense as a term for SJWism. The whole "fedora" fad already referred to just atheism, in the era before SJWism became the big public issue. The really big atheist guys that would be most associated with that movement, like Richard Dawkins, aren't like that. Christopher Hitchens died, but I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be like that either. Then again, Bill Mahr was sort of one of those guys, too, and he could probably be considered a modern SJW. SJWs get mad at him for not following 100%, but when push comes to shove he sides with them. Didn't Sagan die long before any of this shit? Oh, you're actually just mad about atheism, and not the "gender pozz" that was being talked about before. The answer is because science is about testing falsifiable claims, and theism is an unfalsifiable claim.

A lot of internet atheists hitched their wagons to social justice during the Atheism+ movement by Jey McCreight and back then some of the bigger social justice advocates came from the internet atheist scene.

>>1015751 It’s not even really atheism as much as it is anti-theism, which makes sense when you realize how much overlap internet atheists had with eventual “breadtube” internet Marxists. It’s really just the modern league of the militant godless.

>>1015851 Yeah but a lot of them also just ended up becoming redpilled when they saw the religions that came to fill christianity's void. Wasn't Sargon one of those atheist guys? Even Richard Dawkins keeps saying, not that he regrets saying what he said, but that he doesn't like that all he really did was set up the UK to get taken over by Islam. There were also some like Ayyan Hirsi Ali that just ended up becoming christian.

>Enter NES thread >It's about grifting atheists

>>1016100 Threadrot and drift is a real problem. On the one hand it would be nice if there were rules about not going too far off-topic, but on the other hand it's nice that the board isn't overly policed.

>>1016100 What NES game would Sargon play?

>>1016123 Super Turrican

Post some recent NES games.

>>1016123 He wouldn't play NES since he's Bri'ish. He'd be playing the ol' Speccy. Probably some games by Ultimate Play The Game, before they changed their name and sold out to Nintendo. You know, back when they were still good.

>>1016127 They're still made?

>>1016261 Not officially by Nintendo of course but yeah there's a a community of independent devs that make new software fore it. Not just the NES, that goes for most old hardware.

>>1016268 Micro Mages is like Super Meat Boy for NES. More fun with friends though and Anon doesn't step foot outside.

>>1016268 i'll show you Micro Magic with my micropenis.

>>1016127 Geometry Dash got some recent NES demake called Famidash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_esFwqUbjU

>>1016644 Just tracked down releases and it got a demo, 5.2. Not done yet.

Please help me set up this Blueretro NES adapter? The instructions are complicated, and I is dumbs about certain things. Would you please help me step by step, real time? (I was told to move this post here instead of making a new thread about it, so I'm doing that).

>>1030710 Are you about to do some TAS magic anon?

>>1030738 I don't think the Blueretro can be used for that. I mean... can it? Well, even is you can, no. That's not what I bought it for. Maybe later, after I have it working.

>>1030781 Are you the faggiest person ever? Top 5, for sure. Probably the very faggiest. And if you hate the nes, the classic games you mentioned, and Nintendo, the only answer to your question is old PCs. Research the DOS library of games.

>>1030781 >>1030796 Well, at this point your options are limited to the Sega Master System, Atari, Colecovision and Intellivision and even then the latter 3 are technically from the 70s. If you REALLY want to stretch it the Genesis and TurboGrafx-16 were released in 1989.

>>1030802 >Well, at this point your options are limited to the Sega Master System, Atari, Colecovision and Intellivision Don't brother with >>1030796 He's clearly trolling. Also, there's nothing a hater or the NES would get out of the Sega Master System, Atari, Colecovision, or Intellivision. >>1030796 >I also hate all forms of PC gaming (including MSDOS Retro Games and I also hate PC games like Atari ST, Commodore ETC) OK, so now I should say "play classic arcade games" and you reply "I should have mentioned, I hate all arcade games". Right?

>>1030710 What is the Blueretro adapter? Youtube might have guides.

>>1030912 There's one but its in spic https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=XjSP3JVnpp4

>>1030949 >its in spic So is 8chan, if >>1030710 isn't he could say what he doesn't understand.

>>1030949 >There's one but its in spic >>1030951 >So is 8chan Yes, I do understand Spanish. That video is 48 minutes long, which is discouraging because the length of it makes me think it's gonna be complicated and I won't get it... but that's a horrible attitude to have. So, I'll try with that one. See if I can follow the instructions. My goal is to pair the Blueretro receiver with these two marvelous devices for P1 and P2.

Oh, I remember now why I found that video intimidating. It's because the guy in it is showing how to make your own adapter and install it inside the NES. He even solders components. Which is fuckin' cool, but now what I'm trying to do. I got this kit already assembled, but it's not exactly plug-and-play. Allow me to explain...

>>1031022 I found the instructions. Here they are. Step 1 is, update the firmware. But that's no easy task! Look...

>>1031025 Says "Download the Flash Download Tools and unzip" And I did...

>>1031028 Here's the content of the zip... I execute the EXE, and...

>>1031029 I'm following it step by step, but at a certain step I fail. See? The website says >Select develop Mode >Select ESP32 So my window so far looks exactly as the example they give in the site itself.

>>1031033 And here's the issue. The files I need to use here, the first one of them being bootloader.bin I cannot find! It didn't seem to come with the zip file Says right there: >Select and check the first 3 binary files in the first 3 fields and match the option as in the screenshot And since I'm not finding that first file, I can't continue. Any help, please?

>>978796 Patch when?

>>1031035 You could try searching "github [software] bootloader" or something to see if any repos pop up.

>>1031044 >Patch when? I think it's a very simple and extremely boring piece of 8-bit software. It's interesting, but your curiosity can probably be satisfied just by laying it on an emulator not knowing what the 8-bit girls are saying. I don't think you would get a lot more from that experience than from a translation. But I could be totally wrong. And if they're not simple pieces of software, then they're probably very involved and complex simulations, which would be very interesting to see and the experience is gonna be totally different if they're translated, but that would require your full involvement, and I wonder if you'd actually play them. Maybe you would, but aren't there way better games for that kind of experience? >>1031046 I'll try anything. So, where exactly are you saying I should go find the files?

>>1031054 >That third one What a derpy looking lady. Her head is like 65% hair lmao. The first two look fine but the third one looks fuggen weird.

>>1031147 They all look like shit, the third one just looks worse than the rest. But that's ok, it looks so 80s and amateur, it's great! It's cheap amateur obscure sleazy 80s software, and it's meant to look like cheap amateur obscure sleazy 80s software.

>>1031341 >It's cheap amateur obscure sleazy 80s software, and it's meant to look like cheap amateur obscure sleazy 80s software Well said! These are very interesting historical pieces but I'm pretty sure they all suck as games. I wonder if they were good business. Probably made by extremely small teams, and whatever they invested they likely got back and then made profit, but I wonder how profitable they were exactly. This one is called Aki to Tsukasa no Fushigi no Kabe, and I looked it up right now and someone made a repro version which is on sale on AliExpress as a cartridge. The absolute madman.