11th July 2007, 7:10 PM
Oh, you are calling the remodelled NES controllers "dog bones". I guess they do kinda look like bones. I always thought of them as more rounded SNES style controllers.
I picked one of those up myself about a year ago when Nintendo actually was still selling them brand new at their online store. They are nice. I'm using it with my old model NES. After opening it up and fixing up the connector pins by prying them all up just a tad (long tedious process I'll tell you, I kept getting distracted by random thoughts and coming back forgetting I was in the middle of something). I also clipped a single pin on the 10NES lockout chip (the new model doesn't even have this chip), and as a result I have a system that works just as fine, but also has A/V out and not just RF like the remodel. I also kept an old model controller because that shape is needed for ROB.
I picked one of those up myself about a year ago when Nintendo actually was still selling them brand new at their online store. They are nice. I'm using it with my old model NES. After opening it up and fixing up the connector pins by prying them all up just a tad (long tedious process I'll tell you, I kept getting distracted by random thoughts and coming back forgetting I was in the middle of something). I also clipped a single pin on the 10NES lockout chip (the new model doesn't even have this chip), and as a result I have a system that works just as fine, but also has A/V out and not just RF like the remodel. I also kept an old model controller because that shape is needed for ROB.
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