Making The World’s Smallest NES With REAL Nintendo Hardware

This Is The Smallest NES in The World Made From A REAL NES! | No Emulation!
This is the smallest REAL Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the world, and it was created by Redherring32. This totally custom, open-source project uses a pair of real NES PPU and CPU, but they have been shrunken by unconventional means with some truly incredible results. This is TinyTendo, a REAL portable NES. And it’s amazing!
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
4:49 Parts to Make A TinyTendo
9:59 Building The TinyTendo
17:20 TinyTendo Features
18:35 Pros and Cons
20:47 The Amazing Future of The TinyTendo Project
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[@MachoNachoProductions]

One thing I forgot to mention in the video is that the cartridges for TinyTendo use all new components. No game carts are sacrificed 👍

[@erikg4512]

Could you elaborate on how those cartridges work?

[@PlantedWave5190]

That's pretty impressive! Hopefully the TinyTendo can also get a flash cart using a similar architecture. For the EverDrive N8, we might need to get Krikzz's permission to build one specifically for the TinyTendo.

[@penismightier9278]

You didn't mention the battery life. I'm thinking it's either insanely long due to the age of the processors or insanely short due to the screen. Any idea what it's capable of?

[@TheDainerss]

@@erikg4512 you flash the EPROMs on them with a game rom.

[@Blin240]

Do they draw more power similar to flashcarts?

[@redherring3253]

This video turned out so good, thanks for the opportunity, and thanks for working with me!

[@PixelQuests]

Hey fish! Long time no xbox. Petition to rename it to TinTendo.

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

You did and astounding job with this project! Well done!

[@belmont_gr]

You did an outstanding job with this, thanks for sharing

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Thank you dude! It was a blast making this video and wonderful working with you on it! Very much looking forward to your future projects! 😁 cheers buddy!

[@JB2X-Z]

Bro, your efforts, and along with all the other contributors to the project, are INCREDIBLE! I sincerely appreciate what you do!

[@hugevibez]

Wtf, we're not only shaving down motherboards, but actual chips now? Insane!

[@p529.]

tbf, most of the chip is filler plastic just to hold the pins in place. I think shaving down motherboards compared to this chip is way more interesting

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Heck yeah!

[@FilipDautovic]

​@@BrendanRaymondKoroKoro i saw videos of people doing something similar, exposing hair thin contacts and repairing burned ones basically saving the chip. Or remember flashing xbox 360 slim dvd drives where ome models chip had to be sanded in the exact spot to expose one of those traces? Madness!!!

[@nathanmonahan6157]

It's actually super common for repair shops that know what they're doing to Dremel off the top of a chip to run a bodge for a missing leg. Trimming the entire chip is still a pretty big jump for sure though. I wonder if this can be applied to other things like C64's or SNES.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

​@@nathanmonahan6157 I don't see why you can't

[@MrMegaManFan]

"By day he works on his farm. By night he tinkers in his shop." You just described my dad's life story sans the Tinytendo!

[@anonymousidea9119]

Why did I think you meant sans the skeleton as a Tinytendo 💀

[@MrMegaManFan]

@@anonymousidea9119 That's a fun idea though. Stack some hot dogs on a Tinytendo. ;)

[@ShankMods]

Redherring is a great dude who does some awesome work. He's always been super helpful every time I (or anyone else I know) has asked him for help. He's really pushed into some unexplored modding avenues, and is clearly interested in pushing the scene forward and contributing.

[@ls190v2]

But Shank. Isn't the Virtual Boy already portable???

[@kohai-kun9261]

Fairly certain Redherring32's next project is going to be something bonkers like "assembling a working N64 out of a pack of Skittles, 2 paper clips, and some grass!" but like, it's still be completely functional, like "runs better than the original hardware" functional They're simply TOO POWERFUL

[@_BELMONT_]

Red herring is an awesome person. Very smart and also nice!

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Totally agree!

[@dwightdixon8508]

I can’t even get my old faulty NES operational but here’s a guy that breaks one down enough to fit in an GB size and it works. Hard work and dedication

[@adilator]

Shrinking the chips themselves is a pretty boss move.

[@timg2727]

Imagine how tiny and power-efficient the NES CPU/PPU would be if it were completely remanufactured using a modern process node.

[@SJA962]

That exist from the 90´s it is called NES on a chip and it is present on most NES clones

[@timg2727]

@@SJA962 I'm talking about building a brand new chip on a modern process node such as 4 or 5nm. Nothing from the 90s was anywhere near what we can design and fabricate now.

[@SJA962]

@@timg2727 That will be like, a chip the size of a grain of salt lol

[@redherring3253]

It's already pretty power efficient! The NES is only about 1.8W, so TinyTendo runs 12hrs on a charge.

[@timg2727]

@@redherring3253 it doesn't use much power in terms of absolute numbers, but relative to the amount of computing power the NES outputs it's actually pretty poor compared with modern architectures (which is what you'd expect).

[@skywarp8611]

This is great. I've been very busy for years for this kind of project. I'm so glad I didn't discard those old chips and famiclone cases, which are valuble for my nostalgia.

[@davidmelgar802]

I’ve recently gotten into modding and repairing old consoles and have used your videos as a guide. I can say that I could 100% connect with this video. I’ve often felt so much frustration and disappointment when working on older systems but the reward of finally getting it repaired is priceless. Loved this video. Thank you!!

[@MrBoop4345]

Love seeing what people are capable of when they throw in passion and drive. Keep showcasing these amazing mods & builds Tito. Cheers 🍻

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Same! I am always amazing at the cool things people can do! Will do buddy! Cheers!

[@Aoekin]

your channel has so many goodies, definitely glad I subscribed and really appreciate the quality of the videos very clean and easy step by step tutorials.

[@hadesmcc]

This is pretty sweet! I had seen his posts on Twitter but seeing it like this, really brings out how cool this thing actually is!

[@CMM1215]

What a WILD project. Absolutely love this in depth breakdown! I'd be interested in a variant that's a bit bigger that plays standard carts, too! The future, especially the touch screen idea, is REALLY interesting, and I can't wait to see it!

[@jeffhampton6972]

I can't believe how awesome and industrious this it. Thank you to Redherring32 and to you for making this video! This is so amazing.

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

As someone who wants to learn some electrical engineering for some fun home projects, this is inspiring. Dude made a whole system, not just cut down an OEM board and put it in a handheld. This is amazing.

[@CloverTF2]

Dude! I've been trying to do this for about a couple weeks now! Nice to see you got it before me!

[@rsreston]

I loved the video, Tito, thank you for showing us this. During your soldering parts, it was a bit dark where you were operating. I know this is not exactly an instructional video like your other ones, but I just wanted to mention, as this is a new studio and you might still be getting things in order.

[@Eta_Hoyimi]

Cool project overall, but honestly? The coolest thing I found was your trick during soldering! Gonna have to start saving my resistor and LED legs when I chop em cause this would make tiny runs like that so much easier!

[@keepwatchingthat]

Thank you for providing us another awesome video with amazing production quality! Keep up the hardwork Tito!!

[@MachoNachoProductions]

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[@jessecarman-fr4zf]

I love the modding community. Turning handheld consoles into home systems, and turning home systems into handhelds

[@Evercade_Effect]

I love this concept. Good geeky stuff. Thanks for the video.

[@MrFirecasters]

Wow that is actually incredible. I feel like there overall size could still be reduced by playing around with there PCB placement etc but not that it matters much. Awesome build!

[@monster_thebed6738]

this is incredible, the dmg colour looks amazing aswell.

[@thegametinkerer]

I love your work, Tito. This was a great video. The product is awesome

[@SavingPrivateBob]

The quality of your videos, the transitions, sound engineering, everything is simply flawless. I appreciate that as an overqualified production dork haha

[@raffyrobles7458]

I think Mini-tendo is a much sounds like. As always..very nice video! Thats what at the time when i first time i watch one of your videos, i got to subs right away.. Thank you sir Tito!🤗 For the quality videos always!

[@kbhasi]

(0:24) I think the reason why the chips were big back then was because a lot of the chip fabrication technologies for smaller chip packages didn't exist back then or were expensive to manufacture. Still, the closest things I've seen to that ran on Famiclone hardware, and I never thought someone would do a similar thing but running on real Famicom/NES chips.

[@davidcameron648]

You're partially correct. The technology to make the components super small did exist (the surface mount technology we use now), it was just very expensive. Inexpensive consumer electronics at the time were manufactured using through hole components (the component legs pass through the circuit board and are soldered on the reverse side) that were mostly assembled by hand and soldered using a wave soldering machine. The distance between the component legs had to be far enough apart or the process would have issues (pins bridged by solder needing more manual rework to get a functional board), also the components needed to be big enough that they could be assembled by hand.

[@kbhasi]

@@davidcameron648 Right! 🤯

[@mikegarbrandt]

Tito you make these videos so enjoyable to watch and the reviews of the products are simply awesome. Thank you for putting out such great content!

[@Vriess123]

This is cool as hell! Love the tiny cartridges and the fact this is real hardware

[@rezracer6986]

Absolutely awesome! It’d be an great kit, and seeing an Everdrive eventually made for it would be amazing

[@ratykat]

I can't believe the chip shaving. Unreal work!

[@mynamesjeffe782]

Hey Tito just wanted to say you've inspired me to pick up a new hobby and expand my interests and I'm in the works of adding a crafts/ soldering workspace in my office nothing crazy or super expensive but hey gotta start somewhere Keep up the great content and thank you.

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[@jonnyfatboy7563]

unbelievably clean mod hats off to all involved 👀🙌

[@stephenshelottiii3272]

Your video quality is amazing. The new intro is nice.

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[@MitchellHang]

Now that's mi-*NES*-cule.

[@Alien_Bob]

Hey now

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Oh I like that!

[@matzo33333]

5:00 I was actually eating a can of those exact herring snacks when I watched this lmao

[@racooninvasion]

This is so cool, Tito -- I mean, nothing surprises me anymore!

[@PizzaHandhelds]

Wow the shaving is nuts. Great job!

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[@sanrasuzumaki942]

Redherring32 is a freaking beast!! (The red water beast) this is really awesome specially when you mentioned he is self-taught, this makes me want to follow his path, man this is crazy!(and this is 3 guys on their spare time and no pay, now imagine if this was their full-time job and then you add up some overtime 😉 👍🏾) once again Tito, an awesome video, this is why I love this channel, great news and very informative videos with nothing else but game modding and gaming info, keep it going bud.

[@ViewtifulSam]

This is mind blowing! I'd never suspected that the die in these CPUs would be so tiny!!

[@michaelmay9728]

That’s freaking awesome, wish I had the skills to build one, I could do everything but trimming the PPU and CPU.

[@DynamiteBigB]

Red herring 32 just became my adult role model lol. Metal working by day, console modding by night? That's the life right there

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[@ecmyersvids]

This is amazing! Thanks for the deep dive. I really want one, but this is way above my skill level, and I can't imagine how much it would cost to commission someone to build one for me. Maybe one day someone will be able to commercialize this with clone chips like the TinyNES project.

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[@Lillylafrog]

For the nes shooting games you could try mounting ir leds in the build and put a raspberry pi pico or something in it to convert the input from a wiimote. You could also mod a wiimote into a shell resembleing the gun

[@TheCoolDave]

Ok, Love the passion, no question he must spend years doing this. I owned a NES from day one (well 10 days later), and still to this day love it. If the boards where pre-built like this, the soldering job didn't look too bad. How do you get games? You need to build them one by one ? This would need an Everdrive to be useful in the real world. Cutting the CPU in parts? Dam, I did a NESRGB kit and that had it's challenges but, dam.

[@nintendians]

looks quite amazing.

[@brooklyn11218]

I want to see the inside of the cartridges. Are those shaved down also or custom flashed roms?

[@bucket_mouse]

They are custom ROMs, using 39SF040 chips. For the MMC3 mapper games, it requires an original MMC3 mapper chip harvested from a (hopefully dead) NES game

[@jacymark661]

this is insane. I love it!

[@KDJewl3]

This thing is absolutely incredible! I often wonder if the original creators or designers of things like the NES and it's components ever see things like this and just say ".....oh" 😂

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

I see no need for something like this. Of course amazing to see whats possible in modding but a pocket makes more sense to me than a portable nes. The effort is huge. The work is incredible. Amazing to watch. ☮️

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[@retrostashrepairs]

Crazy, this is awesome! Might try it someday 😊

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[@emiliofahr504]

*Sees headline* Alright, you have my attention.

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Hopefully you found it interesting!

[@ute_n8tve]

That's crazy he shrunk it down. He f'kn around with Oompa Loompas!! 😮😅 That's amazing!

[@hellodarren]

Wow, pretty amazing stuff!

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[@blackishjustin]

Whoa, this is really cool. Props to Redherring32 for his engineering genius. This is a really cool project, especially after having watched Gaming Historian's Express video a few days back. I definitely would not attempt this... I can't even get GG's to fully work at my current skill level. The only 'downside' for me is that the cartridges also have to also be modded and fit on the smaller, custom cartridge PCBs. I suppose you could make an Everdrive-type of a cartridge so that way you wouldn't have to constantly be Frankenstein-ing your game library.

[@bucket_mouse]

The cartridges use all-new hardware actually. Other than a donor chip you may need for games with specific proprietary mappers (i.e. MMC3) - in that case, you only need to remove that one chip from an original game to transplant.

[@ScruffyLookinRGB]

That's what im talking about Tito! Nice showcase and mod. Fancy soldiering too. Where did you get that tiny soldiering iron?

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[@Izquierda]

Amazing! Just need 2 things: AV out to connect to a CRT and external audio equipment for "docked" mode, and a tiny Everdrive pro cart lol

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[@hawkfeather6802]

It's so cool! There are tons of really smart people out there!

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[@RandomGreenFishPhone]

This is really impressive! I wonder if there is any lag because of the LCD. Even the Analogue pocket seems to have a little lag, which makes beating Mike Tyson's Punch-out difficult. But since it is one of my favorite NES games, I keep a real NES hooked up to a small CRT just for that and light gun games.

[@redherring3253]

If there is any, it's certainly not enough for me to notice. It feels super responsive/ is enjoyable to play games on. :)

[@devonodevon]

Love your work nacho man

[@dobbinj]

That is really cool. It would be nice to see a video on moding a game to fit in the cartridge.

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[@signorelephant]

Congrats Red!

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[@Aethelvlad]

incredible is an understatement

[@slot9]

Great video! Such enjoy

[@chepin74]

To add crazy ideas to this project, the die can be completely extracted from the original package and wire-bonded again into an entirely new package. You need some very specialized machines and techniques to do this, but it can be done. You could completely extract the die and wire-bond it to the pcb, and then encapsulate the die in an epoxy. Might save you a little bit of space, though it might be plenty small already.

[@trexslapfight]

Hey Tito, what was that nice looking hardware you used, the aluminum slab to keep the TinyTendo from being flush, allowing button placement?

[@WiKiTWoNKa]

It needs a player 2 micro port perhaps via USB-C and a dongle adaptor for the gun. I knoiw the gun needs a CRT to work but maybe it too can be modded to send and receive signals like LED or something

[@OinariKanji]

I think what's most impressive are the shrunken NES carts, thats such a cool touch.

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[@LyricsVideo4U]

Very good! 🔥🔥

[@DJDuce5984]

Technology revolution such amazing mods and new creations of originals to make new.

[@skins4thewin]

Wow, this is freaking amazing! However this means that every one of these made will essentially destroy the orignial PPU and CPU chips of an NES system, two chips which are no longer being manufactured! This is a problem.... I wish these chips were still being made!

[@seethruhead7119]

It's a modern BDL Express, the never released NES handheld from 1990.

[@RisingRevengeance]

Amazing little project! Really fun that it uses those small cartridges but also a bit of a shame there's no simple flash card.

[@springogeek]

Very cool project! That said, I have concerns about having to damage those PPU and CPU chips in order to produce these, since there is a limited supply of those chips, it might make it harder to find those parts for use in original consoles, for the sake of restoration and preservation

[@redherring3253]

Over 60 million NES sold. Even if we assume 60% of those ended up in the landfill, the less than 10 people that will ever muster up the courage to try to build a TinyTendo will never be able to make a noticeable dent even in all of their combined lifetimes. :) And if they did, this is totally "reversible" you can mount the cut chips back in whatever NES they came out of with a simple little adapter. Nothing is truly destroyed.

[@Legofan2676]

Wonder if Long Island Retro Gaming is gonna do a video on this, and more in the sense of assembling from scratch and doing the trimming of the chips.

[@mathieuberthalay21]

Thank you for your video

[@chronossage]

I already dreamed of having the console experience of the NES on the go too. But I went the way of emulation and homebrew and instead got my first GBA flashcart to have fun with PocketNES and a Game Boy Micro. I've been obsessed with emulation/homebrew handhelds ever since.

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[@dabradmp1]

This is truly amazing and impressive. Too bad the screen is not better But I guess it can easily be change to a better one.

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[@gopherbone697]

This is pretty cool. Video was recommended to me today, and I'm now subscribed. Very well thought out video with an abundance of information that you don't get everywhere else. You have a very palatable style.

[@faruksecme]

include a battery indicator for showing rest capacity.

[@numberoneappgames]

The tiny tendo is the definition of a labor of love. :D

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[@DanielOliveiraViolao]

Great! That's what I have been waiting. 😆

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[@bunnybreaker]

Impressive insanity.

[@bownly]

Super cool. Thanks for sharing, Tito.

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Absolutely! You’re most welcome!

[@intel386DX]

it will be cool to add AV out and second player port. Also It will be better to no trim the PPU and CPU, but use them as is. It have enough space to adapt them in the case !

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[@JayDeeIsMyName]

I just love the name. Tiny Tendo. 🥰

[@BigDeal0716]

Would love to see you cover the Ashida GC/Wii portable

[@Estaran]

Amazing project and again an amazing video! I still have some questions - sorry if they were already covered in the video, but English is not my native language. ● So this coneole takes genuine NES parts - will this also work, based on a Nintendo Famicom? To make a Tiny....Famicom? :) ● The specs are 1:1 from the real console, so the video signal is composite (?) and the sound mono? Could this be improved in any way (as there are now RGB mods for NES/FC and composite is often quite ugly on LCDs). ● Will you cover the making of the custom carts in an extra (extended) video? I'd love to see how they are re-created but shrunk down to DMG size. :) I would love to own a (genuine) portable Famicom one day and this project seems like a very good first step into that direction.

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[@RNRSpiderman]

Ever think about doing some videos on the smaller mods? like changing the led lights on consoles?

[@TheManoberry]

Awesome work buddy!

[@davel4030]

Wow, so cool

[@Farm-Key]

Oh ma gah that’s incredible !

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[@eathenalexander2836]

Amazing work these modders are doing, praise to them. Truly amazing. Thanks Tito for showcasing such amazing strides in the retro community.

[@railerswim]

Hang on while I pick my jaw up from the floor. This is insane

[@MachoNachoProductions]

Glad you liked the video!

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

the tiny carts are hilarious

[@CralexKokiri]

I kind of want a follow-up video covering the game carts. They’re obviously not using original cart chips there, but apparently what they used is able to function like the chips in an original cart.

[@artstrange3230]

That's because Nintendo couldn't really make proprietary chips for its cartridges. They made chips with proprietary pinouts. So if you find compatible ROM chips that are the same size as the ones found in, say, Super Mario Bros 3, you can use a PIC programmer to load a Super Mario Bros 3 ROM onto them and design a custom board accordingly to make them work as the real deal.