/vr/ - Retro Games

FAGS Thread

F - Flea Markets
A - Auctions
G - Garage Sales
S - Second Hand Store

$10 here.

The fruits of yesterday's labor. Garage sale. $5 for all of it together, although I'm not sure how the poor guy even ended up with a SNES with no components in the first place.

The NES didn't power up at first, but when I swapped the 9V AC original power adapter for a 9V DC one I happened to have lying around (the robust rectifier in the NES will handle DC just as well as it handles AC), it worked perfectly.
The controller's cord was a little torn, and you can see where I took it apart and covered the rift with electrical tape (right at the base of the controller itself). The Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge appears to have a little water damage, but I already have on in perfect condition anyway.
The NES and controller are quite yellowed, which I haven't seen very often on NESs (not like you see on SNESs...), but after a good disassembly and wash to get the grime and cheetos off of them, I decided that they're good enough. I could do a hydrogen peroxide treatment for the yellowing, but since I'm just going to set this one up for people to play duck hunt in my apartment, it doesn't really matter if it is in perfect condition or not.

Since I don't have power, video, controllers, or games for the SNES here at my apartment, it's untested. Hoping to hit some thrift stores today or tomorrow and see if I can't at least get some games and controllers for the SNES. Even if I can't find power or video cables for it, I know that the SNES has the same voltage regulator as the NES, so the same power supply I'm using for that should work (And 12V DC should work too, in a pinch, though it will heat up more), and I suspect that I'll be able to rig up something good enough to get at least some kind of picture out of the multiport, at least enough so that I can test if the console is working once I have a game in it.
In a week or so I'll be able to pick up my NES RF adaptor, which I believe will work just fine with the RF jack on the SNES.