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Konsolkongen wrote:I'll be doing that.
That is a very admirable thing to do, Konsolkongen. Best of luck with your search for a replacement PPU. Perhaps broken NES consoles with functional PPUs can be rescued from the wild and used for this sort of thing.

I also hope the Universal PPU project is successful.

I remember thinking back around 1999 that my NES would only have composite output for the rest of time. The Playchoice 10 PPU option came about, and I was excited but held off. Now I see the efforts that Tim and the Universal PPU are making to enhance the gaming life of the NES community, and I find that I am just about as excited as an adult as I was when I got the very NES unit I will be modding back in the 80s.
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I love *F5* the NESRGB in my *F5* front loader, now I want to *F5* get one for my top loader. Still *F5* waiting for the orders to *F5* open up
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CkRtech wrote: That is a very admirable thing to do, Konsolkongen. Best of luck with your search for a replacement PPU. Perhaps broken NES consoles with functional PPUs can be rescued from the wild and used for this sort of thing.
I was just contacted by a member who said he might have an extra US composite PPU :) Not sure I'll jump on the next batch of NESRGB boards though. There are many others that need this more than me right now. But soon I hope I'll be able to pass my PPU on to someone who has a useless PC10 board :)
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Konsolkongen wrote: There are many others that need this more than me right now.

My Mario looks like this... we have to save him!

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Haha :D
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Just placed my order on the new site!!!!!
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Me too, but it cut the last digit of my zip code off on the order. Another friend said it omitted his zip code entirely. I emailed Tim just incase it's a minor bug.
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My zip and address showed up perfectly.
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Holy crap, there's a Twin Fami adapter! Just placed my order, can't wait!
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Anyone have a link to the new site?
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?
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Strider77 wrote:Anyone have a link to the new site?
http://etim.net.au/shop/shop.php
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I just placed an order for one and it looks like the last digit was cut off on my zip code as well. Hopefully it won't be a problem since it appears in full on my account.
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When I get mine, I plan on trying it in a pc10. I know the pc10 is rgb...... Just want to see if it will work.
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As long as you use a composite PPU with it, I don't see why it wouldn't work. I don't think an RGB PPU would work since the NESRGB needs the EXT0-3 pins that the 2C02 has.
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Right. That's the plan.

I am very curious though if it would work on a dual monitor pc10.

Any thoughts?
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Missed the first batch, ordered 2 this time around, 1 for the top loader and 1 for the current playchoice RGB modded toaster.
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Ordered!
Forgot to add my City name, but the zipcode is there, i guess that's enough.


Congrats Tim, you did it :)
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Btw Tim, it's kind of risky not having to re-type your password in a second box when creating an account, especially when you don't need to confirm the account via an email.

Adding one of those will probably save you some future manual labor i think.
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Jeppen wrote:Ordered!
Forgot to add my City name, but the zipcode is there, i guess that's enough.
Yeah, in my haste I somehow forgot that line entirely... Oops! Had to email him after the order was placed, stupid me.
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Yes, finally! :D :D :D

Places my order just a minute ago. I'm a happy man now. :)

the customer registration fill-in form indeed needs a second 're-type your e-mail address' field or some other kind of manual check ('re-type this letter combination') to avoid spam bombs or things like that. An e-mail confirmation would also be wise. Unfortunately all these safety precaution measures are necessary.

But overall, nice work Tim. :D
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w00t! Just picked up two boards. I'll mod my own system and mod a spare NES and resell. :)
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darcagn wrote:w00t! Just picked up two boards. I'll mod my own system and mod a spare NES and resell. :)
I don't see the second hand value going down on these any time soon :P

I also ordered two in case i totally screw up the installation.
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Can't wait for my order to arrive ... :oops: ... waiting was so long, finally it is over :mrgreen:
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Got in an order for 2 to do for a friend and another to sell. Got 2 from the first batch as well so i already have one for myself, and the quality on these is perfect. It literally puts the pc10 ppus to shame in an nes.

As always much appreciated Tim!
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Thanks everybody!
markfrizb wrote:When I get mine, I plan on trying it in a pc10. I know the pc10 is rgb...... Just want to see if it will work.
It will probably work with a NES PPU installed. It might be a good idea to prevent the EXT0-3 and VIDEO pins from connecting to the Playchoice motherboard. The amplifier circuits on the motherboard might interfere with something.
markfrizb wrote:I am very curious though if it would work on a dual monitor pc10.
I don't think there's anything different for dual PPU systems. The NESRGB works on a per PPU basis so you would need two if you want good video from both.
cr4zymanz0r wrote:Me too, but it cut the last digit of my zip code off on the order. Another friend said it omitted his zip code entirely. I emailed Tim just incase it's a minor bug.
It was a bug relating to that line - I got several emails about it. I fixed it by about order #30. Fortunately most of the orders up till that point were from Americans and their addresses are easy to understand. I'll verify any which are in doubt.

I originally wanted to just have a large multi-line text box labeled full address. This way the customer can format the address any way they please. It is a shame that no shopping system I tried supports such a concept easily. Perhaps I will hire a web developer to make such a form... The concept of a little box for every detail is hopeless when the same form is meant to fit Brazilian (very long lines), Asian (start with country, end with name), and British (ten lines tall and have no numbers!!).
Jeppen wrote:Btw Tim, it's kind of risky not having to re-type your password in a second box when creating an account, especially when you don't need to confirm the account via an email.
It's not too bad. If you forget the password you can request it by email. If you make an error in your email it gets a bit harder. I think I'll make the user enter the email twice for confirmation.
ckong wrote:the customer registration fill-in form indeed needs a second 're-type your e-mail address' field or some other kind of manual check ('re-type this letter combination') to avoid spam bombs or things like that. An e-mail confirmation would also be wise. Unfortunately all these safety precaution measures are necessary.
Yes, though I don't want to make it too difficult. If someone wants to make a robot to fill in the form it will take him only five minutes regardless. The worst thing that can happen is I end up with lots of junk accounts in my database.
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viletim wrote:Thanks everybody!
markfrizb wrote:When I get mine, I plan on trying it in a pc10. I know the pc10 is rgb...... Just want to see if it will work.
It will probably work with a NES PPU installed. It might be a good idea to prevent the EXT0-3 and VIDEO pins from connecting to the Playchoice motherboard. The amplifier circuits on the motherboard might interfere with something.
markfrizb wrote:I am very curious though if it would work on a dual monitor pc10.
I don't think there's anything different for dual PPU systems. The NESRGB works on a per PPU basis so you would need two if you want good video from both.

I thought the pc10 dual monitor had only 1 PPU??
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I entered my order in as order 84 for two kits; one for my childhood sideloader and another for my A/V Famicom. Hope there are enough boards for all of the orders this time around.
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MattC wrote:I entered my order in as order 84 for two kits; one for my childhood sideloader and another for my A/V Famicom. Hope there are enough boards for all of the orders this time around.
12 hours ago mine was order 49, i hope Tim bought enough stamps!

:mrgreen:
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Jeppen wrote:
MattC wrote:I entered my order in as order 84 for two kits; one for my childhood sideloader and another for my A/V Famicom. Hope there are enough boards for all of the orders this time around.
12 hours ago mine was order 49, i hope Tim bought enough stamps!

:mrgreen:
The order was completed at 5:50 AM so I wonder if word came fast through social networking or had the NESRGB booked marked on phones like myself. I work overnight so I always checked the page before and after work.
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A friend placed my order along with his :mrgreen:
We both have AV famicoms, is there a place or maybe an ebay cable we can harvest the male connector and transplant it to viletim's scart cable? it would be very nice if we could use the existing port... :D
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