Very nice work, Skips! Looks clean and not cluttered like I would expect.
Interestingly, though, I just did an NES with the exact
opposite approach.
A couple years ago an ex-gf gave me an NES she found in her attic when she moved out into a new apartment. The case was covered in stickers and caked with dirt, so I just kind of shelved it.
The other day I was bored and decided to clean it up and do an NESRGB install on it. I removed all the stickers with Goo Gone, but now where the stickers were it was clean and where the stickers weren't it was browned and dirty. I couldn't scrub the dirt off so I just said fuck it and took it completely apart, threw all the plastic in the dishwasher, and hoped for the best. It came out extremely clean and looking brand new!
I decided to do an NESRGB install that looked as stock as possibly can be. For this installation, I decided to use the
NESRGB-IGR I/O board (NESRGB In Game Routines, Input/Output). This board replaces the NES's RF metal box with a new board designed to complement the NESRGB. Luckily, borti4938, the designer of this board, had assembled a few of them and had one left pre-assembled and sold it to me, complete with an SNES multiout already included.
The picture makes the NES look yellowed, but it's really just my lighting.
Now the RF output and channel switch are gone and replaced with a multiout. The RCA connectors on the side output a standard composite connection from the NESRGB's encoder, along with mono audio.
The only complaints I would have about the board is that it doesn't have pads for chroma (no big deal, I just soldered chroma directly to the pins of the multiout connector) and that it's wired for a PAL style multiout (12V where c-sync would be), also no big deal as I just cut the 12V trace and connected c-sync manually).
The board also controls the LED of the NES, and came with a tri-color LED that changes depending on the palette selected.
Red = Standard Palette
Green = Improved Palette
Yellow = PlayChoice Palette
The board also allows you to control the system from the player 1 controller.
Start+Select+L or Start+Select+R = switch between palettes
Start+Select+A+B = Short reset the NES (on Everdrive, this resets the ROM)
Start+Select+A+B (hold) = Long reset the NES (on Everdrive, this returns to the Everdrive main menu)