Skips wrote:
I have not seen much in the means of the Original Famicom kit here so I figured I would post my install and thoughts.
This is by far my favorite system to install the NES RGB in. The power board and port placement makes the kit a breeze to install, the only required case modification being the use of a circular file for the audio jack. The Audio sounds great and although I dislike the audio separation mods I feel including it on this board was a nice touch. The palette switching via the controller was also another great addition, especially since bumping the Famicom by flipping a physical switch could accidentally crash the game. The RGB port also uses the XRGB mini pin out so you can go directly to it if you do not wish to use a scart switch.
The only somewhat major downside that I can currently see is that you have to remove the eject lever. This however is not really a problem since it is harder to use than just pulling the cartridge straight out. The eject mechanism is a small price to pay for RGB in my opinion. Also I had a problem with the sound at first, certain sounds were way too quiet as if the sound channels were improperly balanced (Mario 3 sounded pretty bad). I later came to find out that my power PCB was labeled wrong. I ended up having to run CPU pin 1 to the CPU Pin 2 pad and CPU pin 2 to the CPU Pin 1 pad. Once I did that it sounded perfectly. I am not sure what was up with that because the labels were in the same place as Tim's Tutorial. It is OK thought, once I figured out what was up I got it working with only a minor inconvenience (and no I did not just wire them to the wrong place, I triple checked it to make sure it was not just a brain fart).
One thing people also need to be aware of is the install instructions will not work with a GPM-02 Famicom. The kit should work but it does take a bit of a different way of doing it than what Tim shows in his instructions.
I was excited to get this kit together so its not my cleanest work but here is my install. I will be going back later to redo it and make it look good.





P.S. Fuck HQX
I would like to point out that no one should ever use the eject mechanism, the red slider is SUPER FRAGILE and can break after all these years of aging.
So do yourselves and your beautiful Famicom a favor and don't use it or if you absolutely HAVE to use it, be careful guys ok?
On another note..
I came to the same conclusion when installing the NES RGB in my Famicom, this was before the new installation kit and offset adapter.
I had to put it on the topside as i just couldn't get it to work on the bottom as described by Tim.
So in the same manner the eject mechanism had to go, though i didn't need to cut any plastic as i used a ribbon cable to offset the NESRGB board.
The red slider was of course put on again, just the inside mechanism was removed and stored in a safety deposit box in the bank.

Yeah-yeah i know, hotglue blasphemy
