/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5221659
Everyone says toploaders have jailbars. They do unless you know what the hell you are doing. This isn't a full tutorial because I will help, but not spoon feed. Study this link: https://web.archive.org/web/20110802065924/http://www.dutchretrogamer.nl/nes2_avmod_eng.html then build the mod board they tell you to. If you use your head, you'll be able to make this board smaller. Look at pic related, you can make this board 6 "rows" tall and 3 or 4 "holes" wide. Just know each component can share a column of holes.

So you've made that. Good. Now either lift pin 21 or cut it from the PPU. You are a hack if you cut it and you lose the little respect I have for you. That said, if you can't solder or desolder, it's probably better for the unskilled to cut the pin as flush with the board as you can. Scratch that, if you can't be arsed to learn to solder and practice on junk, you have no business modding a console. Look up EEVBLOG and voultar on youtube and learn to fucking solder.

PPU pin 21 MUST be lifted or you WILL HAVE JAILBARS. Pin 21 lifted = NO jailbars, pin 21 not lifted = jailbars. Period. That's the secret to jailbars on a toploader. Anyone who tells you you don't have to lift 21 is a fucking liar or dumb.

OK, now that you made the circuit and lifted 21, IGNORE EVERYTHING from that site I linked. Solder the "IN" on that circuit DIRECTLY to lifted pin 21. Use a pin header leg or capacitor leg if you have to. The key is, unamplified video picks up jailbars so you want NO LENGTH of unamplified line in your console. If you use even an inch of wire, you will have jailbars, period. Stick the mod board to the top of the PPU with GOOD double sided tape.

Pull power and audio from where that site says. Ground at the nearest ground you find using a multimeter or schematics. Use a TRRS jack (retrofixes sells a kit) and put it in the old hole where the RF jack went after removing it from the board.

100% reversible mod, jailbar free.

>>1397640
I've noticed a variant on this design that adds a 560pF capacitor connecting the video out to ground (besides changing the resistor values). Does anybody know exactly what's up with that?