my nes

NESBest · Post by **NESBest** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:38 pm

im in the middle of doing mods to my nes, lockout chip, paint, etc, i've consiered the idea of putting floppy connectors in it rather then the gay factorry pin connector, can someone show me a picture of the kind of floppy connectors that i would need?

bambi · Post by **bambi** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:20 pm

Make it look like trogdor!

arfink · Post by **arfink** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:48 pm

Ummmm, YES, we have a spammer! Bambi, stop spamming or we will whack you. The royal arfink has spoken... Oh yes, quote-ing Strong-Bad from Homestar runner does not make spamming acceptable.

Anyway, the connector you want to use is the kind for the 5 1/2 floppy drive. The pitch is about right, and what you want to do is get two of those kind of connectors and put them together end to end. Cut them so that you can do this. There are a few pins in the middle of a connector that are almost never used because they connect to the expansion port. You can make the gap in the connector go there. See Ben Heckendorns little thing on this in his second revision nesp (or nes micro) page. Or, if you want to make this easy, go on ebay and buy a game geneie, remove the connector and use that. I've done it before and it works just fine.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:00 pm

arfink wrote: Oh yes, quote-ing Strong-Bad from Homestar runner does not make spamming acceptable.

...yes it does.

iX NES Xi · Post by **iX NES Xi** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:14 pm

could you send a picture of what it should look like, i have seen floppy connectors but i dont see how a cartridge would plug into it, do you have to cut it or something?

Indigno · Post by **Indigno** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:51 pm

No. You need old floppy drive cables with connectors for tape drives an 5 1/2 inch drives.

dankicksass · Post by **dankicksass** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:55 pm

This is the floppy cable used for NES connector replacement. You require two. It is for a vintage Amiga computer, 600 or 1200 series. It can be found here.

NESBest · Post by **NESBest** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:30 pm

so do you solder iit to the NES motherboard or does it slip on like a cartridge

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:40 pm

Now that I think about it, it probably could slip on like a cartridge. you could solder it, though.

Also, the cable I used (I got it off ebay), looked more like half a NES connector. I compared, and it looked the same.

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:55 pm

dankicksass wrote:This is the floppy cable used for NES connector replacement. You require two. It is for a vintage Amiga computer, 600 or 1200 series. It can be found here.

<img src="http://content.ytmnd.com/content/d/e/d/ ... 8d1b21.jpg">
Wrong!

You need two standard PC floppy cables with the connector on the left:
<img src="http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7051 ... 35dok7.jpg">
It's for the old 5 1/4" floppy drives.

It doesn't matter where this connector is on the cable; you just need two of them.

ben has a decent write-up on this type of connector replacement on the <a href="http://benheck.com/Games/Nintendo_proje ... tm">"Super" NES</a> page.

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:00 pm

Yea, bic, that is the kind I used.

totokan · Post by **totokan** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:58 pm

If someone like me (who owns NES and went so far as to mod the ZIF connector itself) wanted to do this to their NES, would it do any better than what I already did? also, I've never seen that kind of ribbon cable, anybody know where I can get one...