A Momentary Lapse of Awesome

Posted on Sep 2nd 2015 at 03:30:12 AM by (nupoile)
Posted under Advantage, nintendo, controller, 004, 027, 026, max, advantage, inside



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





This is my worst controller, which is why I'm taking it apart. I don't think this one even works.






I, ahem, cleaned it after the pictures were taken.



You can't see it in the picture but most of those rubber contacts are torn pretty bad, one is completely detached.



At least a little cleaner here.



This is harder to get into than I would have guessed.



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.



The tools I made to open up that connector.



You can see some of the corrosion on the contacts. Don't spill pop on your electronics people!



The D4021BC. Kinda an important thing for Nintendo's controllers. You can Google it or something.
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NES MAX NES-027


Looks comfy but is a little too small for my hands.



Did some cleaning before I took pictures this time. See? Given time, I pick up new tricks






























Nothing very witty to say about the MAX I guess.




NES Advantage NES-026


That's half of your Smash TV setup right there.



Seven eighths of the weight is removed.



Two circuit boards! What is the world coming to?















Two red buttons and the select and start buttons just kinda sit there.






It's that magic glowing, see-through circuit board trick again!






Joystick bottom.



Way out of proportion to the other pics because of the magic of photo cropping.





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  Tongue









Posted on Jan 29th 2013 at 04:55:52 AM by (nupoile)
Posted under steel battalion, controller

Steel Battalion. That mythical controller/game for the xbox. Much has been written about this beast, a few people have actually seen one. Through a unique set of circumstances, one of these has appeared at my house.

It was agreed that I could borrow this "thing" if I cleaned it. It had been in storage because the owner no longer has an xbox. He must have been keeping it at a RV storage facility, it wouldn't fit anywhere else.

So you can look at this two ways: If you let me borrow something with the promise I clean it, I will do my best by cleaning it inside out or if you leave something with me, I will tear it apart.

Oh yeah, lots of pictures. I know that is good for some and bad for others but I think it is necessary in this case.


Steel Battalion, look at this thing, I mean just look at it.



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