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Sharp Twin Famicom NESRGB mod! Installation guide and technical demonstration

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The Sharp Twin Famicom is one of the best versions of the Japanese NES that you can get, as it has the Famicom and the disk system addon all combined into a single convenient package. We had already repaired this one for the Long Island Retro Gaming Expo but we wanted to make it even better. In this episode, we install Tim Worthington's NESRGB mod, which adds component video and RGB video to the Sharp Twin Famicom! A detailed installation guide is provided and we demonstrate the differences between composite and component video.
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@maxinsano7376 3 года назад

I really needed this video! I'm about to finally upgrade mine, so I can get to playing all those FDS and Famicom carts I've had for 10+ years. I just can't bring myself to play them until I get component or RGB out. Thanks man!

@Getzke 4 года назад

Very helpful video! Helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. I didn't read the instructions carefully enough to solder the jumpers and thankfully you covered it in your video and now my mod works great. Thanks!

@LIRetroGaming 4 года назад

Awesome! So glad that my video was able to help

@anthonydepaula7176 4 года назад

I've been looking for a twin for years! Love this video

@LIRetroGaming 4 года назад

Thanks! Hopefully you find one of these someday, they are a real pleasure to own and after an RGB mod they look amazing

@johnstory4807 Год назад

Great video, as always. :)

@ModzvilleUSA 3 года назад

So siiick! Just won a junk twin famicom on buyee. I'm thinking about going the NesRGB with multiout port the scart to the retrotink 5x. Solid work as always my dude.

@LIRetroGaming 3 года назад

Nice! They are really cool to own. You can also repurpose the 8 pin DIN connector for RGB on the twin Famicom. That way you don’t have to cut the shell and add an extra connector. That 8 pin DIN was used for RF on the twin Fami which is crazy!

@ModzvilleUSA 3 года назад

@@LIRetroGaming brilliant!

@chadwolf3840 3 года назад

great video.

@LIRetroGaming 3 года назад

Thanks, glad that you enjoyed it!

@PersianImm0rtal 4 года назад

What can I do about the Sharp Famicom's really short controllers? Is there a NES controller adapter or can I make it longer? Please help I can't find any info.

@LIRetroGaming 4 года назад

Yes it is possible to add an adapter for normal controllers. I’m looking for good info on this now and I would like to make a follow up video

@troymeredith521 3 года назад

Have you done any updated mod to handle the expansion audio? I used your video to install my NESRGB with a personal no-cut twist but realize now that the expansion audio has known issues and ways to rectify it seems muddy. Would appreciate any insight.

@LIRetroGaming 3 года назад

Yes I have learned about a fix for the audio in the twin Famicom and you can find the details here: etim.net.au/nesrgb/installation-famicomtwin/

@troymeredith521 3 года назад

@@LIRetroGaming Yeah, I looked on his site and it only addresses the volume and the FDS audio distortion. Exp Audio itself is missing from the setup you did in the video. I tried Akumajou Densetsu (cart) and the audio is definitely missing a channel. Looks like I’ll be rerouting the audio to directly on the mono output to get it back per Tim’s original install.

@RileySkye100 11 месяцев назад

Sweet. Do they still make the RGB kits for the Sharp Twin?

@LIRetroGaming 11 месяцев назад

Yes definitely, they can be purchased from Tim Worthingtons website

@hossammoghrabi1021 2 года назад

does it have stereo audio?

@cyo_corner 4 года назад

i planned on removing the RF modulator and putting my din connector where it was... You can't put audio in the 8 pin mini-din connector?

@georgeportugal2169 4 года назад

What I did was cut all the RF traces that were going to the DIN connector and then sent RGB, composite, and audio to the DIN using the same pinout as a Genesis Model 1. This gave me RGB, composite, and audio using the original DIN. I ended up losing that portion of the footage, otherwise it would have been included in this video

@kurtsta1 3 года назад

Very easy to pull traces. Make sure to use plenty of Flux on both sides

@hossammoghrabi1021 2 года назад

you soldered component and audio in place of old composite and audio, won't this short stuff?

@RetroGamer-zz5jn 9 месяцев назад

i just got mine and ordered nes rgb kit from us distrib…. i have questions, is it possible to have a snes multiout port for everything? i wanna have svideo and component. atm my crt had svideo

@LIRetroGaming 9 месяцев назад

The space on a Sharp twin is very limited, it will be hard to add a snes multiout

@RetroGamer-zz5jn 9 месяцев назад

so best bet is a sega style mini-din where old a/v jacks then...@@LIRetroGaming

@imclearingit4149 7 месяцев назад

Always nice to see a 500R on video, same for 500B, but what about the 505BK twin fami?

@LIRetroGaming 7 месяцев назад

The guide works the same way for the 505bk model as well

@philwong2733 2 года назад

Hi I have a question, I have tried calibrating the spindle on my disk system but am still getting error 22. I have also tried using other methods on other videos but still getting error 22. Any help as you have repaired yours would be appreciated thanks in advance. Update: i did get it to read the disks i have but had to angle the drive upwards which was strange but then i tried re calibrating it again now cant get it to read at all just error 22

@LIRetroGaming 2 года назад

Yes I used this guide to get my FDS disk drive working ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fOY1G3Sg11Q.html

@philwong2733 2 года назад

@@LIRetroGaming i followed that guide too but still getting error 22 :(

@RetroGamer-zz5jn 7 месяцев назад

i made my first attemt at desoldering the ppu and failed....and destroyed the ppu and board.... i even practiced on some old boards and had no issues.....im so mad at myself... is their any1 in the us that i can send another ( once i get ahold of one ) sharp twin to to install the nesrgb ?

@LIRetroGaming 7 месяцев назад

I can help you with the next Sharp twin Famicom when it arrives, you can message me at my website

@TheLemminkainen 4 года назад

Sid music

@theresatwinkleinmybrainnow696 4 года назад

How does Akumajou Densetsu sound after this install?

@LIRetroGaming 4 года назад

I really wish I had that game to test, because it has to sound amazing. But I did test some other expansion audio games and they sounded phenomenal

@jk-474 4 года назад

If only the Genesis had a full combo of its functions like this! I know a bunch of those concepts got cancelled

@LIRetroGaming 4 года назад

Yes there was a Neptune planed that had the 32X and Genesis combined. It would have been great to have all three systems combined into one!

@souljastation5463 3 года назад

There is the Wondermega but it costs a fortune.

@hossammoghrabi1021 2 года назад

Why mono audio

@LIRetroGaming 2 года назад

The Famicom and NES do not produce stereo sound. You can generate a fake stereo sound by splitting the voices into two speakers but it makes some games sound very strange

@jmopli7521 Год назад

No hdmi???

@LIRetroGaming Год назад

There is no hdmi mod yet, unfortunately

@UnbornApple Год назад

you're losing expansion audio if you're just getting audio from pins 1&2 on the twin famicom

@LIRetroGaming Год назад

Expansion audio is built into the Sharp, so if you pull audio from the final output, the regular audio and expansion is already mixed

@UnbornApple Год назад

@@LIRetroGaming Yeah. Unfortunately the final audio output on the Twin Famicom is really quiet and crummy (at least on mine). There's an old Voultar post on the shmups forum where he describes how to hook up expansion/FDS audio into the NESRGB on the Twin Famicom. You can't have both connected at the same time, so you have to hook into the Twin Famicom's cart/FDS switch. But then you should get the nice NESRGB audio with expansion/FDS audio mixed in.

@UnbornApple Год назад

I was able to get the audio working how I wanted. I uploaded a quick video so other people can find it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QhbIu_NR5Rs.html

@damionmanuel9625 4 дня назад

@@UnbornApple It's because some Twin Famicoms have some resistors swapped and in the wrong position. Tim Worthington has a fix for this issue on his NESRGB V4 instructions for the Twin. Mine sounds great after doing this fix. EDIT: It's not in the V4 instructions just in the standard NESRGB install instructions for the Twin.

@dingusbingus7463 10 месяцев назад

I just realized, Imagine being abroad in japan during the FDS days and investing in the system and games, moving back to the US or Europe, and having a disk get corrupted. You wouldn't have had a way to fix it, I wonder how many got thrown out because of things like that

@LIRetroGaming 10 месяцев назад

Yeah unfortunately I bet that many were thrown away for this reason

@dingusbingus7463 10 месяцев назад

@@LIRetroGaming Do you know if there are any companies/venders than have repro disks made? been looking for years to no avail, even though I know there were a lot of ripoffs during it's lifetime

@damionmanuel9625 4 дня назад

@@dingusbingus7463 You can mod the FDS to allow disk writes and use the FDSStick to write whatever game you want to a disk. I did this with a stand alone FDS drive but I'm sure it's possible with the Twin as well. Just be warned that if you want other FDS systems to be able to read your written disks the writer disk drive must be very well tuned or only it will be able to read the disks. I tuned my modded drive with an o-scope to get the best possible results and both it and my twin can both read the re-written disks first pass, but if you don't have an o-scope that may be a challenge.

@dingusbingus7463 4 дня назад

@@damionmanuel9625 I knew about that, and congrats that's pretty cool. My original comment was based on the premise of living in the 80's

@damionmanuel9625 3 дня назад

@@dingusbingus7463 Oh sorry, I misunderstood.