Ultimate SNES Power Mod 

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Glad I stumbled upon your channel. I hope to be making some content soon, keep it up!

I'm so glad I found your channel. About damned time someone had the guts to say: what if the nintendo ds was a game boy pocket? And other insanities.

awesome video! Hope to see more.

love your channel!! can you do more of these? amazing content man

This is a very neat project, I hope to see more content uploaded from this channel.

Sick vid.

hey there, i got a bit of a recommendation for the next time you do a retrobright, instead of using the salon cream, i use the salon 40 developer liquid and a plastic bin with the outside sprayed with liquid mirror spray paint. heres how i built my retrobrite bin: water safe translucent bin (fit to your project and maximizing space and volume) liquid mirror spray paint painters tape (for leaving space for retrobright led strips) a heat lamp on a boom arm mount above container a safe place to put the box for retrobrighting -assembling the retrobright box- go outside wear ample breathing equipment and clothes you don't care about make sure its a nice sunny day apply painters tape where you want the led strips to rest. spray the mirror finish spray paint to the outside of the box. as the mirror spray paint is settling remove the painters tape where you want the led's to go. let the box dry and then then use painters tape and cover the outside of the box and install the led strips where the mirror finish spray didn't go. for controllers such as the snes controller, i use a pickle jar with a liquid mirror paint on the outside and filled with salon 40 developer and a heat lamp and black light leds, the set up is very similar to the one mentioned above. and it is sealed with a plastic see thru lid and a top pickle jar clasp, or plastic wrap with rubber bands this will give you much more consistent results and is my go to recommendation this also reduces the chances of marbling to zero. thank you for this video! :D.

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I did a same mod to original Japanese Famicom. It all works just fine. As long as you don't want to use some EverDrive (or similar) flash cartridge. That step up DC converter just unable to provide enough current for flash carts to run properly. I tried to solder 5v from USB to motherboard directly. And that worked... But this way I got a lot of visual video noise. It varies from AC to AC adapters but the original AC 9v adapter provided a lot crisper flicker free image. I guess I had to add some filtering caps.

I think I may have been your 2000th subscriber lol, seriously though, your content is AMAZING! Could you possibly look into doing something similar for the PS1?

i have a question so after you solder your usb & chip together you just glue the usb port in the back/bracket and then the other end of the wires is solder to the 9v & ground under the circuit board/bottom? just want to make sure i do it correctly! also the link to the usb type that you used is broken so i m not sure what type of micro usb you used! any help would be great this is the best tutorial but i am new to this stuff and i am doing my best to understand it! so i just want to make sure that i solder the wires in the correct place! prob stupid question but is this safe to plug into a wall socket and play?

The retro brighting works better when the item is submerged in just hydrogen peroxide . The cream stuff ends up with the marble look lol. Having an enclosed container with UV lamps and tin foil helps too, but especially just liquid instead of cream.

Hey man, awesome mod. I'm just looking for the 3d print bracket file, where can I find it if you've uploaded it?

it´s a neat mod so to speak but for me it seems like some of the steps would be possible to go around such as the voltage booster, I know that the voltage regulator gonna step it down to 5 volts again anyway but it should be possible to feed in the power after it without frying the stuff (I might look into that some day). But either way it will be more safe to do it the way you did, however it adds more complexity and losses and kinda ruin the reason to use a regulated 5V USB adaptor in the first place unless you wanna bring your Nintendo out in the woods with a powerbank to play your favorite games on battery, since pretty much any power adaptor with 9-12 volts and a barrel jack would work without modding, Good thing to know is that some consoles have the AC input and adaptor depending which it is and if you would put such a SNES AC power brick into a console modded this way by mistake you gonna fry the booster since it is connected to the jack directly and it cannot handle AC. Thought it could be a good thing to point out since the SNES might have this AC adaptor as well as a DC depending on type. you can use a DC adaptor on the AC input but not good the other way around

Is it true that some cartridges that use fx chips won't work correctly because they need the extra volt (10v) ? Also if you use a higher amperage (example: 1.2A) will make up for the 9v and allow the fx chips to work? I'm not a electrician so that's why I'm asking... I'm currently using a sega genesis model 1 adapter (10v 1.2A) I ditched the Japanese 100v brick because I heard it's a ticking time bomb 💣

Can i just go and bypass the “10V” section and go straight to where the VRM outputs 5V ?

liked that u used redial song at the end

GREAT VIDEO!!! I want to do this to my SNES but will this work on the original NTSC systems and will the 3d print also work for the NTSC systems?

I'm very curious now that some time has past if this mod is working as intended before I attempt it myself. The forums I've checked out say that "noise" from a different power supply can cause problems.

Instead of retrobrighting with the sun you need a plastic tub filled with hydrogen peroxide and wrapped in a UV led strip. Odd Experiments has a video about the process.

you would need a USB-PD with higher voltage to do this right some charger have only 500 MA so to up the voltage you lose amps saying ANY charger has little damager I wonder

Have you tried using a solder wick before? I'm no soldering expert, but I hate those cheap sucker things. Using a disposable wick has always worked much better for me than one of those sucker sticks. You can end up going through what seems like a lot of it, but it can really clean off old solder pretty thoroughly.

Hi, this is fantastic! Any chance you could share where you got the components? In particular the plastic housing for the usb c? If you 3D printed them would you be willing to sell them? Cheers

I was convinced that this was in fact a 1CHIP due to the shorter board length. Every European SNES I've seen with that form factor has been a 1CHIP.

Three years in the future: hey can you update your links? Only one of them works and I'm thinking I might want to do this mod! Thanks!

Hi. I wanted to ask if i would use everdrive does this mod handle it because it uses power too.

You can just solder the 5v to the other side of the 5v regulator, you would just have to modify the switch so you can turn it off

I know this is an old video but couldn’t you just use that ada plug to power the system??

So if the system steps the voltage down to 5v anyway, why did you have to go from 5v -> 9v -> 5v like that? Genuinely curious because I’ve never attempted any power-related mods thus far!

Hi, nice job, thanks. Please, can you tell me the name of the first song?

Impressive it is . But i like to keep my consoles how they are with no unnecessary modifications unless it's a repair and replacement of a resistor or a faulty reset button and capacitors. I wouldn't want to devalue my consoles .

not sure if you know it. But you could have dunked the shell in hydrogen peroxcide and then put it under a uv light to bleach it. thus getting rid of the smoker plastic look without having to sand it down.

Hmm I think you don't even need the modded usb power converter. If the whole system runs on 5V and the only component relying on 9V is the voltage regulator itself, you should he able to bridge input/output on the regulator and just supply 5v directly.

can't believe you just left out the part where you removed the RF module

I think a clear coar would have evened out the finish on the thing

Probably way too late, but the bracket file seems to have disappeared from Thingiverse... though I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to design a new one.

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What’s the reason to ad usb C to it?

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Qual a finalidade de colocar uma porta usb-c no console?

I'm really surprised nobody has made a custom top plate for SFC that makes it region free 🤔

Have you tried Yoshi's Island with this? I'm curious how the more power-hungry games perform

Does this mean you could technically use the Switch power adapter?

Adding the step up converter is unnecessary. Depending on your power adapter, it should provide enough power for you. In this case, since you're connecting directly to the OEM voltage regulator (minimum operating voltage is 7.5V), all you would need to do is supply a 7.5V-12V power source and a direct path from the USBC to the OEM voltage regulator. Regarding whether you use an everdrive, it should run fine as long as the snes is supplied the recommended ~800mA.

I can see your logic in using the step up and step back down method, but this honestly seems like a ridiculously simple mod to do for those willing to just lose the regulator and wire the USB terminal directly to the +5in on the motherboard.

Btw, the "shroud" is just RF shielding I think. Luckily in Japan they require much less. American Snes or Nes consoles require much more RF Shielding per US FCC regulation lol

now I know I am an idiot but I more wander why you wouldn't place power though the holes of the Voltage regulator. but I'm assuming that this is because you'd have to fine tune the voltage and Mili-amps from the USB to the through holes with a multi meter. using something who's name I forget. I honestly would like to know your reasoning for why.

just dump the super Nintendo shell in soapy water.

Or save the time and effort and grab a mister reflex volt power cable and use a USB-C charger you probably already own that can do output 12v....cheaper that route if you dont have a soldering iron around.

I don't get it because a SNES console requires 9V~ AC power. But this mod is on 5V to 9V DC🤔🤔🤔

This makes no sense! Why did you step-up the USB-C to 9v, fed it to a 10>5v step-down? Why not just wire the USB-C 5v directly into the Snes 5v input and removed the voltage regulator?!

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Awesome mod! If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is the difference between this mod (endrift.com/2019/08/10/usb-snes/) and yours? I see the other mod doesn't need to do the 5V>9V>5V conversion. Also, with your mod, what happens if you plug the SNES into a USB adapter capable of outputting "turbo" voltages (like 9V)? It'd fry the system, right? I'm new at SNES modding and I'm looking forward to doing your mod on my systems!