Holy Crap!

[Marioman17]

Holy Super Nintendo collection. I only have 8 SNES games in my collection right now.. But for me they're some of the must-haves on the system.

[KMSoulja]

where do u keep all of your controllers?

[FritzWhite]

What snes games do you have? Would it be possible to see some close ups? Muchas gracias

[wiggy]

excellent

Thanks!

Holy Super Nintendo collection. I only have 8 SNES games in my collection right now.. But for me they're some of the must-haves on the system.

I love the SNES!  Have the most nostalgia for it by far

where do u keep all of your controllers?

See that drawer in the middle, under the consoles with the mushroom pull on it?  Yup, that's it

I know I have pics, just have to find em in my photobucket.

edit: found a couple.

What snes games do you have? Would it be possible to see some close ups? Muchas gracias

Man, been meaning to do this for a while.  Still have about 30 or so to case, so I tossed them on the shelves for the pics.





Well that Extron switch that I bought a while back didn't have audio in/out, but I thought I could get away with using the H & V sync for audio. Wrong!

So I recently bought one with audio ins and outs. Problem is that they aren't RCA or BNC connectors, which means I'd be splicing a lot of female RCA pigtails in. No thanks to that mess. So I'm gonna modify the V/H sync boards (since I don't need them) to run the audio. This way I'll have BNC connectors for everything plus the video and audio in and outputs will all be right next to each other

Pulled the boards that need to be modded (V/H sync + Audio)


Backside of one of the sync boards where I will be bypassing to the audio board.


Little slice with the ol' Dremel


Bypassing the sync board and running wire to the audio board


Here's what I would have needed to deal with for the audio.


Desoldered all the clips and will wire the bypass from the sync boards directly to this board.



Ran out of time tonight. Will try and finish tomorrow or early next week (it's at my office, and it's quite possible that I won't make it in tomorrow because of the lovely non-stop snowfall here )r

[Staf]

Your projects constantly amaze me. It's interesting to see all the ideas you come up with.

[Ozzy_98]

Ran out of time tonight. Will try and finish tomorrow or early next week (it's at my office, and it's quite possible that I won't make it in tomorrow because of the lovely non-stop snowfall here )r

I know you're a fellow ohioan (Or your o-hi-o on your profile is missleading), but snow in my area stopped.  You're not some poor bastard living in the lake effect areas are you?

[wiggy]

Your projects constantly amaze me. It's interesting to see all the ideas you come up with.

Well thank you!  It's getting harder and harder to finish them lately, but I'm working on it

I know you're a fellow ohioan (Or your o-hi-o on your profile is missleading), but snow in my area stopped.  You're not some poor bastard living in the lake effect areas are you?

Am indeed from Ohio, and I am indeed in lake effect hell!  We've got about 2' sitting outside right now.  Took me 1.5 hours to get home from the office last night.  It's normally a 20 minute drive  

But I did manage to make it in today (albeit around 3:00), and I did manage to finish up the switch.  Setting it up right now.  Hopefully I didn't screw anything up...

[Ozzy_98]

Am indeed from Ohio, and I am indeed in lake effect hell!  We've got about 2' sitting outside right now.  Took me 1.5 hours to get home from the office last night.  It's normally a 20 minute drive  

But I did manage to make it in today (albeit around 3:00), and I did manage to finish up the switch.  Setting it up right now.  Hopefully I didn't screw anything up...

I'm from Marion area, north of Columbus by about 30ish miles on 23.  no snow today, just COLD, and lots of it. Sure am glad I work from home

I was a dairy farmer for 12 years though, working daily in this crap.  That sucked muchly.

[larryinc64]

Snow days stopped being fun when I was the one who had to shovel.
I had a snow day at school today, not sure how deep the snow was, guessing around a foot.
I was the only person out of the 3 - 4 other bakery staff members to show up to my job today, spent 2 hours standing around doing nothing because my manager was not their to assign anything, but I did have a load or boxes to take care of and it took me 2 hours.
Getting paid to stand around is fun. I wish it happened more often. I am normally working till the last second, my manager likes to assign more than what could be done.

[wiggy]

Woo-hoo!  The Extron switchbox mod is a complete success!

I'll post more pics of the hack-and-slash process later. Off to enjoy the fruits of my labor for now...

[wiggy]

Am indeed from Ohio, and I am indeed in lake effect hell!  We've got about 2' sitting outside right now.  Took me 1.5 hours to get home from the office last night.  It's normally a 20 minute drive  

But I did manage to make it in today (albeit around 3:00), and I did manage to finish up the switch.  Setting it up right now.  Hopefully I didn't screw anything up...

I'm from Marion area, north of Columbus by about 30ish miles on 23.  no snow today, just COLD, and lots of it. Sure am glad I work from home

I was a dairy farmer for 12 years though, working daily in this crap.  That sucked muchly.

It finally stopped snowing here last night. Thank goodness!

Snow days stopped being fun when I was the one who had to shovel.
I had a snow day at school today, not sure how deep the snow was, guessing around a foot.
I was the only person out of the 3 - 4 other bakery staff members to show up to my job today, spent 2 hours standing around doing nothing because my manager was not their to assign anything, but I did have a load or boxes to take care of and it took me 2 hours.
Getting paid to stand around is fun. I wish it happened more often. I am normally working till the last second, my manager likes to assign more than what could be done.

Oddly the office building that we're in was rather full yesterday, despite the mountains of snow everywhere. Even more full than it is on a good day.


Here are the last few pics of the Extron mod.  Swiss cheesed a bit to run the wires where I'd like.




Wires taped down and whatnot.




All set to reassemble.




And then just the final touch.



Works perfectly and it keeps the entire unit as tidy as possible, with no pigtail wires or anything dangling from the back. Couldn't be happier!

[e_brugal]

Sorry for my question and my ignorance maybe on this, but for what is that? 

[wiggy]

No need to be sorry. It is sort of strange unless you know what it is.

It's a large, rather fancy A/V switch made by a company called Extron. They make professional grade A/V equipment that gets used in broadcast TV and the like. This particular box has 8 inputs and 8 outputs and can be configured most any way you like. I've configured mine to use all 8 inputs (3 component vid, 3 S-vid, and 2 composite) and 3 outputs (to match the 3 types of input).

They're seriously nice bits of hardware. If I were to have purchased this thig new, it would have cost me a couple grand. But you can typically find them used on eBay for around 50 bucks.  They're powered, and they actually boost the signal unlike passive switches, which maintain the original signal at best, and cause signal degradation at worst. 

The housing is solid aluminum. The entire effing thing is aluminum. My next project will likely be to strip the shitty-ass gray finish and either polish the housing, or have it anodized in some absurdly intense color

[e_brugal]

  That sound good, amazed with your work, with everything you do

[Ozzy_98]

Silly Wiggy, the snow didn't stop.  It's charging it's mega-blaster for tomarrow. So make sure you bundle up for a long snowed in week, playing with your PS3, 360, and... Wuu ?