Any word when youll be selling these and for how much?

Also great work, any chance of posting instructions on exactly how to do this ourselves?

I wonder if you modded a NES Advantage if that would give you more room in the body to implement more features.

Follow the instructions to make a NOAC, but exclude everything about the screen. Simple.

ohh duh, here is a noob question where can I find the instructions?

Read ben's NOAC portable story. And look through this:
http://benheck.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=12335&start=0

Would anyone who has it be willing to zip up the full picture set? I'd like to see the rest, but it seems the "no bandwidth comes free" rule has been enacted by the photo hosting sites.

G-Force

After reading about your genius mod, I went to my local Goodwill and found a Super Joy III. Sadly it didn’t come with a power adapter so I have to find one that will work. By the look of a picture you posted you are using a AC to DC adapter that outputs 6V DC at 1000mA. It that correct?

Also, could you explain how you wired the junction box.

Sweet hack!
-mattnerd

if the nes advantage is bigger why wouldnt you have more room? honestly thats not even a question that should be asked

*cough*

I did some forum searching, couldn't find it anywhere else... how did you do the led mod? Seems like it should be pretty straight forward, but I've never been able to peel the sticker off the controllers to get that going.
Thanks
Figment

even if you cant im sure if you are very careful you could just cut the out line with a knife and pry up the scrap plastic off the front sticker.

Wow.... This made it onto quite a few blogs...
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/a-ne ... 229097.php
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/16/nes- ... ontroller/
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/20 ... ntire.html
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech ... r#comments
http://www.digg.com/mods/A_hacked_NES_t ... _Brilliant
http://www.4colorrebellion.com/archives ... literally/
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs. ... /1/15/6629
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/01/16 ... ntrol_pad/
Any I missed?



I will try and make one or two to sell eventually. Probably a month from now, with how busy I am.
I might make an instructable for it. Depends on if I can get enough free time. I'd definetly like to.


Yep, thats the power supply I used. That power then went into a 7805 linear regulator, that turned that 6V into a regulated 5V, which then went to the system and LED's. Try and get a lower voltage output when you look for a power supply (and you should only need about 100 ma output at the most. Mine just happened to be over kill). The lower the voltage, the less heat the 7805 will make. The original 9V power supply made the 7805 get pretty hot, but with the 6V one there is almost no heat generated.
One other thing, be sure to get the polarity correct, there is no protection to keep you from frying it.

The junction box has 8 wires from the controller to the box, and 2 wires going from the box to the controller. The 8 wires are from the NOAC, and are the 6 wires for the player 2 controller port, and audio and video. The 2 wires going to the controller are power (6V) and ground.
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2057/wiring0dy.jpg


As far as I know, it's the only controller to have this backlight mod, so I doubt theres any info out there. I just took a utility knife, pried up the corner of the sticker with it (older, more brittle, stickers will fall apart if you try this, be warned) and and it just came off. I used goo gone to get rid of the old sticky residue. Then I just marked where to dremel, cut the hole, held it up the light with the sticker in place to make sure it was good, then hot glued a white LED at each end of the hole, wired it up with the right resistor, then wired it to the 5V regulator. Then to reatach the sticker, I used Duro Spray Glue on the back of the sticker, then pushed it onto the case quickly. And thats it. Pretty easy mod. I'm thinking of doing it to the rest of my controllers.

I had written a FAQ on the LED mod over a year ago, and is hosted on RetroNintendo.com
http://www.retronintendo.com/modules.ph ... age&pid=12

I had also talked about it on episode 10 of the Nintendo Retrocast.
http://www.archive.org/download/The_Ret ... cast10.mp3

awesome! Thanks!
Yeah, I tried it on a 'new' ebay controller. and ta da, pried right off... shweet.

Aha! It figures someone had beat me to it. Nice job on that. Did the red LED work pretty well? I tryed it with a red keychain LED and it looked okay, but I liked the more vibrant red in the logo that the two white LED's produced.

Oh, I thought you had copied it from my design. Here I was saying how proud I was it made it into your mod too...

I had played around with a white LED, but it was too bright and made the Nintendo logo more of a pink color. The only other LEDs I had laying around were red and green, so I used the red one. It wasn't as bright, but the color was true.
Other people have told me on the RN forums that they had used two red LEDs, one from each end of the logo, and had excellent results. Also, one of my proofreaders had told me that he had used hot glue to fill in the cut-out area, and it diffused the light from the LED to fill in the whole logo. I have yet to have time to try either of these methods, so if anyone does, let me know how they work.