It's been a long time since I've put up a "What's Inside" blog, or any blog for that matter. To keep things consistent I looked back on how the other "What's Inside" entries were titled. Apparently there was no consistency, every one of them was written with different formats, some had hyphens some didn't, I didn't even use the apostrophe in "What's" half the time. Of course, knowing myself like I do, this was done simply to entertain me. It kinda worked.
This entry is a threefer, three different Nintendo controllers were in pieces on my workbench today. And pictures were taken. Finding pictures of the original controller's guts online is pretty easy and not that the Advantage and MAX are impossible to find, these might show more detail than you've seen before.
First up is the original controller, the NES-004
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This is my worst controller, which is why I'm taking it apart. I don't think this one even works.
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I, ahem, cleaned it after the pictures were taken.
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You can't see it in the picture but most of those rubber contacts are torn pretty bad, one is completely detached.
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At least a little cleaner here.
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This is harder to get into than I would have guessed.
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Only five of the seven places for wires are used. The other spots are taken up in different controllers like the light gun and the four score I think.
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The tools I made to open up that connector.
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You can see some of the corrosion on the contacts. Don't spill pop on your electronics people!
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The D4021BC. Kinda an important thing for Nintendo's controllers. You can Google it or something.
www.google.comNES MAX NES-027
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Looks comfy but is a little too small for my hands.
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Did
some cleaning before I took pictures this time. See? Given time, I pick up new tricks
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Nothing very witty to say about the MAX I guess.
NES Advantage NES-026
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That's half of your Smash TV setup right there.
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Seven eighths of the weight is removed.
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Two circuit boards! What is the world coming to?
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Two red buttons and the select and start buttons just kinda sit there.
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It's that magic glowing, see-through circuit board trick again!
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Joystick bottom.
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Way out of proportion to the other pics because of the magic of photo cropping.
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If you want to see something closer or from a different angle, let me know. I took way more pictures and they are all way bigger than what I put here.
Hope you had as much fun looking at these as I did taking them apart. Should be easy enough, I'd rate this project at about a 4 out of 10 on the fun scale
