A few years ago I installed a Hi-Def NES along with a NESessity 1.4 board in my NES and not once have I looked back (okay one time; when I saw Hogan's Alley at the vintage game store in my town and wished I could use a Zapper with a modern TV). So happy to see there are new HDMI solutions on the horizon. I just wish something would be done for the SNES!

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Not practical. Starting to resemble a MegaDrive with its many add-ons. Trying to reinvent the wheel so to speak. Its aight, I guess, its a money pit at this point. The point of these video mods is to keep the shelf uncluttered, everything to be kept inside the case. What's the point of capture cards and upscalers? Precisely to avoid all of this wiring mess. The amount of time wasted just to set up and the money that will be spent, get a proper upscaler instead. Not very practical, but those who miss the MegaDrive and its add-ons, rejoice. Not worth the effort.

Can this do 240p resolution, or is there a way to get RGB instead of HDMI so we can use something like the Retrotink 5x or 4k for the HDMI + Masks/Profiles?

Can I hook up vga or scart to that?

1 raspberry pie can emulate everything itself. Instead, you'd rather add 5 more cords, a mono splitter, an audio injector adapter, 3 separate power supplies, 2 more pcbs and a raspberry pie!😂

Jesus HDMI Christ this is brilliant.

Very nice..thank you..

Basic soldering skills but a bunch of spaghetti wires. I mean now you must power the console, two external devices, have 2 HDMI cables, audio cables. They should just have people put the whole assembly inside the nes and have an HDMI slot cut in the back. I've never regretted my HiDef-NES but now ai realize how lucky I am to have one and the NES works like it was just built like that.

How is that better than Retrotink2x?

My first computer capable of running dos or win 3.1 was a presario cds 866. I still have its rough shape corpse. But have a great presario 833 that runs fine. And there is like nothing for the 800 line.. 500s 900s 700s all day long, but no restore for 800s. Still looking for the 197005 cache module... Thank you so much for this video. I know something out of it will help.

I hope you understand that micro pie can emulate in HD up to Ps2 games . Just ruined a collectable console valuble in original condition only.

Nice. Love seeing old machines given some attention.

This looks like it might introduce some lag.. I wonder what this feels like to play. Awesome idea!

No NES here but this this looks amazing :D

21:45 the left one looks better

I just checked both of my NES decks' expansion slot... both are completely devoid of spiders. Is it too late to ask Nintendo for a full refund? 🤣

Hey! Great video! How about reading Commodore 128 KERNAL chips (28 pin?) I am not able to read them using TL-866II device.

The service menu on Sony TVs is a godsend. I wish my Mitsubishi had one (maybe it does, but I can’t find any info).

Hold up - all we need to do on NTSC for expanded audio is bridge a couple pins with a resistor? The expanded audio will pipe through the regular ol' output jacks as usual?

ther is a a/v to hdmi cable but you need 2 audio and 1 video plug.

That Raspberry Pi can emulate the entire NES by itself, no soldering required.

The consumer market really should've adopted SDI, the professional standard for delivering digital HD video and audio over a single coaxial cable, just like used for RF or composite video. But it lacks HDCP, so the copyright police absolutely never would've allowed it.

The music and sound effects are pretty messed up. Nothing is timed right.

Excellent video. Great work. Got me some tips for a technichs not spinning.

The “Digitizer” name will lead people to believe that this is digitizing analog when it is actually replicating the PPU’s functions to generate digital video from the data bus… the same way Hi-Def NES, RGB Blaster, and NESRGB generate their digital source. Before anyone assumes it’s somehow less digital than the Hi-Def NES: the “Digitizer” board isn’t digitizing anything. :)

It's crazy when you think about it. You put a daughterboard in your console, hundred to thousand times more powerful than the console itself, just to get better video output.

What reslolution is the Pi HDMI outputting?

Far out mate as another Aussie into this hobby for well over 20 years I cannot believe I have not found your channel before! Oh well I have now and I subscribed. Very well presented video.

Does this setup expect the Pi to be powered by whatever USB service port the TV might have? I'm looking at the Tindie listing and it seems like a fairly short cable (maybe 12 inches max) for the NES to plug into the RGBtoHDMI and for the Pi to be powered during operation this would make for an awkward, cumbersome cable management situation.

when i push vendor.bin it asking that it needs a argument what should i do?

The Immortal uses emphasis bits extensively… and doesn’t work on many TVs including late model CRTs and all digital TVs with analog inputs due to “blacker than black” colors that get misinterpreted as a mid-line sync pulse. It’s a game that could really use proper digitization.

Never been interested in Playstations but now I kinda wanna do modchips on them!

why can't the raspberry pi embedd the audio via a cheap audio-in solution into the hdmi?

As soon as you showed the motor frozen, I was talking to my screen and telling you to lube it. Then again when you got it to spin somewhat and making a screeching sound. A couple of micro drops of fine lube will to do it.

Cool. Actually you can rout only one conductor, the ground is all over the place.

I have an early 2000's lcd tv with no hdmi for my old game systems 😆 they all display full screen it also has component hook ups

This is awesome! Very exciting development I'll be closely following.

Kudos to the genius that came up with this idea and theretrochannel for showing had to do the mod but Im just gonna stick to the old fashioned way.

I clean all flux off the board.

The ZD-8915 and 915 and the one u have there all use 24 Volt heater element. Mine has a 36volt fan no problem with overvoltage on my 8915. but the 18 volt to the heater bug me. know there are mods on psu easy done to get 23.5 .psu on all these stations are ZD-P150 V 2.0. 18 volt 12 A, at least what other confirm they have in those models with or without sleep "sensor" The fans have different rating on many, Same as mine had a 12 V fan while mine is 36V

Hello sir In my system wi fi is not turning on, can i do something on thi😊😅

Ah the Mattel version. Not seen one of them in a while

16:44 Unfortunately I am immediately put off by the sheer number of external devices and the rats nest of cables required. RCA will do just fine.

Neat modification. Thanks for showcasing it.

I've never played NES on PAL systems but I'm very familiar with NTSC. Is it normal for SMB to sound and play that fast? It looks like it's 30-50% faster than "it should be".

its not supposed to look like that, if I wanted my nes games to look like that I would just use an emulator.

I want to get excited about this but the having to mod the console to then have multiple external connections is making it difficult, considering how many existing solutions that arr already available, once audio gets incorporated I will prob pick this up and see how difficult it would be to bypass the rf jack and wire directly to the digitizer and add an hdmi port to make this an internal mod