Are there any issues you have with the NES that I could fix in my redesign?
Redesigning the NES for an assessment task
Daniel Gray
Camden Price
Removing the lockout chip is a start
Henry Kelly
duck hunt was too hard
Henry Murphy
>4 controller slots
>USB controller
>HDMI output
>Rounded controller like the SNES
>Tasteful woodgrain
Easton Baker
needs a surveillance chip
what if people play child porn on it?
can't have that
Anthony Fisher
I feel like this is important: the NES is basically the same hardware as a Famicom but they decided to make it bigger because they were afraid western audiences would assume it being a small device meant it was underpowered.
So maybe you could say you could easily make it way smaller.
Austin Jenkins
They wanted it to look like a VCR and they called it an “Entertainment System” instead of a Video Game because no retailers wanted to get burned AGAIN! I believe the toy company that Nintendo partnered with (Worlds of Wonder) originally forced retailers to accept the NES if they wanted stock if Teddy Ruxpin.
Charles Rodriguez
The push loading cartridge slot on the original US version. Superfluous and unreliable.
Dominic Nelson
the VCR style loading mechanism wasn’t the real issue with the NES. It was the lockout chip that caused the flashing screen.
Lincoln Hughes
Peripherals for the expansion slot on the bottom were never widely available. It would be interesting to see what could have been done with that port.
Samuel Sullivan
Zoom zoom, there was so much shit that went wrong with those things. They'd get wallered out so you had to put in the cartridge a certain way, they'd collect dirt and pet hair, and they were always how the console would die. The oldschool NES had so many cartridge loading problems that no console before or after did, and the lockout chip flashing screen wasn't a big part of them.
Jace Brooks
I’m not a zoomer, jackass. I got an NES Action Set for Christmas of ‘87. I have the same fucking NES to this day. I sid eventually replace the 72 pin connector. But before that, I disabled the CIC lockout chip by snipping a leg. That stopped the endless flashing whenever there was poor contact. The lockout chip would prevent a game from playing. Poor contact just created garbled graphics, but games would still play.
Jace Martin
Is your redesign going to be using the original chips or a FPGA or both? A top-loader design would be nice
Grayson Smith
The original US Nintendo PC prototype would be rad!
Brody Gutierrez
>Redesigning the NES for an assessment task.
for a what?
Caleb Campbell
Fix the controllers. I remember them being stiff and hard to use.
Hunter Brooks
My class has been given an assessment task where we have to redesign an item of our choosing and I decided upon the NES.
Adrian James
Update it to post-modern console standards and throw in a bunch of gaymer LEDs, always online bullshit, and make it so the cartidges just contain tokens to allow you to download the game from a remote server.
Michael Gray
but why?
The Generation Nex, one if the first high quality nes clones, already did it best. It would play both NES and Famicom. It would use the OG controllers, but also had wireless ones shortly after launch.
Dylan Richardson
>original
Wat
No, it was the 72 pin connector. Google it ffs
Zachary Wilson
you really are a stupid fucking retard. There was an NES2 as well as the Famicom AV. Neither had the lockout chip.
Michael Green
All you had to do was hold the gun closer to the screen