How to turn your Original SNES into a Mini SNES

Houdini · Post by **Houdini** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:05 pm

Could someone post pictures and detailed descriptions of how to make your origional SNES into basically a mini (yes i kno the sound is different and stuff like that) I am talking about size wise. I am building the hand built SNES case just like Ben and my original board won't fit. PLEASE HELP!!!! Ive heard people talk about cutting off stuff and removing this and that but i am a total n00b. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps you guys r the best magicians in the video game genre!!!

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:10 pm

I don't think you can get the old motherboard down to this size. The Mini Snes is pretty small.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:28 pm

There have been members that said you can slim down the square motherboards by trimming off the metal strips on the sides. Other then that your really stuck with what you have.

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:44 pm

Which kind of SNES are you using NTSC or PAL?

Because ive written a (very) crap guide of how to make a regular PAL Snes prtable, havent got as far as the screen yet, (no money)

http://freewebspace.8s.nl/distortional/

Just go into Stuff, my friends site is odd, you cant directly link to pages

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:33 pm

Yes you can, you just don't get the menu, because it uses frames.

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:46 am

Oh well, thats his department not mine

Houdini · Post by **Houdini** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:26 pm

thanks for all the feed back but can you get more descriptive than
'metal strips' i need pictures or detailed illustrations plz

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:32 pm

Have you seen the inside of an SNES? Both sides have a big silver grounding strip. There's nothing on it, so you cut it off. Nothing complicated about it...

b52down · Post by **b52down** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:37 pm

Just go to my last post for pictures:

Progress report: SNES portable using the old 1990 SNES

I decided to go with a GBO design, because the size of the older snes board makes it impossible to make it as "compact" as ben's design, however--if you look at the side view of my machine, you can see that it is very thin!--instead of making the machine as thin as ben's design, I made it an inch thick, and made the box about two inches longer than the board--this gives plenty of room for a lion batter pack to fit between the two speakers!

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:33 am

The metal stripes are hard to miss, you can see them in most of the screenshots already

arent not are

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:09 pm

Extreme_Jesus wrote:The metal stripes are hard to miss

I'm guessing you meant "aren't".

Post by **gannon** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:15 pm

No, I'm pretty sure he meant are

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:23 pm

If he did, he needs to use some emoticons with his sarcasm.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:53 pm

What sarcasm, he said that the metal strips on the snes are hard to miss, and they are

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 8:43 pm

Not really, if you know that they're on the sides, you can spot them easily.