▲ 30 r/nes
Repair complete!
Bought a blinking red light NES to see if I could fix it and success! Luckily, it was just the 72-pin connector as usual. Boiled it, pulled the pins a bit, threw some DeoxIT in to clean up connections, and replaced the voltage regulator to fix some wavy lines in the background and now it's good to go!
The plan is to throw it in a new black transparent case, replace the caps, and add a PPU Digitizer mod when they come in. I'll keep this one as my main system and probably send the old family one to my brother after refurbishing it too.
Happy to get this NES up and running either way. Picked up Dragon Warrior 2 from eBay to celebrate, ha.
u/SteveTheAmazing — 5 days ago