Last night I was going to kill some time with the good'ol nes. I tried to fire it up, but I coudlen't get anything to work - which was odd becasue i perked up the connector just a few months ago. I opened her up,and found that somehow one of the pins had been bent BACKWARDS all the way to the rear. After a few attempts I concluded that that connector was totally busted, and i'd need a new one.
I had some spare floppy cabels lying around from a failed project i'd done and I tried to create a makeshift connector to get me through until I get a more perm solution - the only problem is, it dosent work, and i'm not sure why.
Is there a tutorial for making floppy connectors for the original nes? (I know there's Ben's "Super" nes, but it doesent detail anything. Did he solder that directly to the board?)
What I did was make TWO conenctors, one for the cardridge, and one for the main board - as of Last night, I didn't want to mess around with the soldering iron, so I used a double male connector to link the ribbon cables together. The ugly end result looks like this, and doesent work:
http://img.waffleimages.com/91a3112fc19 ... nector.GIF
I knew it was a long shot, but I was hoping for tips anyway. when it comes to soldering I don't know where to start (I can solder fine, but i'm not sure the best way to go about building the connector and I don't want to solder anything directly to my nes)
Also, just as a curiosity, why doesent using the wires that come with the floppy cable work? I tried every possible combination of plugging it in, but to no avail.
Is this whole idea just incredibly stuipd?