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THE 2018 ATARI AWARDS!
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Yes, you would still need to cut a small notch out of the RF shielding for the audio input wire you have there. (I assume the yellow is audio input since it is tied to two resistors, one for each TIA channel?)
 
Unless there is just enough space to wedge that wire between the audio tuning coil? But you would have to desolder it from the resistors, thread the wire through the RF opening for that coil to come through and then solder it back down. Things like that are why I solder on header connectors to most of the wiring so I can easily take it loose for full disassembly without have to desolder stuff.

Also you can literally grab your ground for these AV mods from anywhere. Take any multimeter and you will see that all grounds have continuity with each other in these old systems. So..to make it easier I will usually just find the nearest ground point around the circuit I'm grabbing my signals from to be sure it is proper. In the case of the 7800 UAV mod I use the grounds off the UAV board itself. But honestly you could just grab the ground off of any part of the large ground plane around the main board and attach that to to your RCA connections and be fine.

Yes the metal strips where you placed them should be fine. I still would have tried to solder on some wire instead to make sure it was all grounded properly. I still think part of the issue is that you don't have actual RF shielding on the system anymore. I see this kind of thing even on modded consoles like my Colecovision, Intellivision, and especially the 7800 if I don't find ways to put the RF shielding back on. 
 
And yes I believe console5 only has 1amp and up output VRs that he sells. I bought my 2amp output versions from him last time I believe and that is what I have running in my sega Genesis.

Here's a video on Facebook that is beyond awesome.  I'm not sure if it's possible to pull it off there, so here's a link:
 
https://www.facebook.com/LeaKThompson/videos/1136375713167949/?hc_ref=ARQxicvmwyzgZILpn3d73AQ7qJmsjsXuENrfPVxGKJat24Wt55xL3rmt9TbWmlJ1okc&__xts__[0]=68.ARDe24qiUdb8OPkSVv2FbeX6-Ze9104m7GMNJWCQhBDV-s5W_rW6-XmLNQDMr_YmOSwnXajGAgAY8dEOaazQybnsQlRXLF2h4OgiaPS4Q7rEuvy7FXmYEDucRK0d6h1SzGUswtlnEOeX7SfwjyH1wZtxFKdvmZd9TaNGeVvsZ0CUtk9WxciaLEgNfNr44Kx_U56pT6e1TLumm0g_Bw7DgM2cgti6nEhqFElAdU4Y2w&__tn__=FC-R&fb_dtsg_ag=Adzn8SoCdd1Eqmh7sSi0mxWf3r6cUF-vEka42qctmZ5Rmg%3AAdzLYEB-V85Pf6dyVIuyMi4WvySoeHryIrgBfvUCu4q9nQ

I hadn't thought of power...but could be. The original VRs are only like what.. 500ma rated? And that could have been pushing it already to near that limit with all the components installed. Wonder if a newer and higher output 1amp version 7805 would help?
 
Especially when the newer homebrew games also take up some juice to power the additional chips in them that they have. 

You did a nice job!  I'm sorry that the bug is still there.
 
It still feels like a potential power issue to me.  Good luck solving this. 

Well after several months I finally got around to installing a new mod from ebay. I took the original apart and started from scratch. Unfortunately the problems still persist so it's not the mod itself after all. I'll attach pictures but if you go to the first post you can see the output is the same. Lady bug in particular looks horrible but I had that problem from the beginning even on unmodded systems through RF. It's hard to tell on the Draconian picture but there are wavy lines all through the picture. So should I take an RF shield from another Vader and put it in this one? The original was thrown out by the person I bought the modded system from. Or is there another possible reason for this RF looking interference on a composite modded system.

 

Again this only seems to happen with 3 homebrews - Draconian, LadyBug and Fall Down. 

 

Space Rocks, Juno First, and Colony 7 seem fine and all original games look great too. So other than 3 games this mod seems to work fine. It seems to be a homebrew issue but Al mentioned he's never seen anything like it and considering how many hundreds of homebrews and systems he tests, I trust it's something peculiar to my Vader.

 

PS - This was my first attempt at modding a system myself so other than the original problem being present, I'm pretty proud of myself 

The Amiga just screams "cool". I owned one very briefly in the late 90's, the A500 I believe. I found it in a thrift store but not the way you'd think. It was sitting in a shopping cart by the office door with the monitor. I asked if it was for sale and the woman said it was there to get it out of the way because the Amiga was their thrift stores office computer but they had just replaced it with a Windows PC so although they hadn't intended on selling it she actually said that sure, she'd sell it and I was floored when she said I could have it for $10. 

https://youtu.be/z0qyUhb3VXI

Dammit they don't ship to Canada. You can only preorder if you live in the States?

You don't need the same exactly stuff as before. All you really need is a decent size piece of wire to solder the outer casing of each switch and then eventually solder that down to the RF ground plain somewhere. But if you really want to use foil tape like before, then you can just buy a small roll of Chrome repair tape from an autoparts store and cut it as needed. It is basically the same stuff.

Wow. You have two grounds going on here which I didn't catch before. The ground signal going to the RCAs on the console should be coming from the ground connection where the RF modulator use to be and not the grounding plane for the RF shielding. Your video is proof that when you are touching the mod circuits that it is using you for a ground source. An RF shield over the board where it is suppose to be would clear most of that up.
 
Also of note...it is a big no-no to run a 2600 without that shield for one reason...static electricity. During a testing phase of the four switch 2600s, Atari discovered that any static discharge from human hands when they touched any of the four metal switches could fry the circuitry inside...namely RIOT, 6502, and/or TIA. There is suppose to be two thin metal strips to avoid static. One thin strip for the POWER and TV TYPE switches and the other for the GAME SELECT and RESET switches. The thin metal foil-like strips have adhesive on the bottoms and grounds those switches to the RF shield. You can still get those new but I am not sure about the shield. I would bet putting those on there would solve this problem.

I did get in my mod kit from ebay, similar to the one RickR posted a picture of in post 35. I'll install it next weekend when I get time. I didn't think grounding to the metal strip was the way it was supposed to go. I can get an RF shield off another vader I suppose and you're right I should get that metal tape to ground the switches I don't know why they're missing. I'm assuming the person who modded it thought the rf shield wasn't needed anymore. Of course I'd have to remove the current ground since it would be in the way of putting the shield back so the new mod kit is probably the best way to go anyway and I can run the ground from the mod chip as it should be.

I did get in my mod kit from ebay, similar to the one RickR posted a picture of in post 35. I'll install it next weekend when I get time. I didn't think grounding to the metal strip was the way it was supposed to go. I can get an RF shield off another vader I suppose and you're right I should get that metal tape to ground the switches I don't know why they're missing. I'm assuming the person who modded it thought the rf shield wasn't needed anymore. Of course I'd have to remove the current ground since it would be in the way of putting the shield back so the new mod kit is probably the best way to go anyway and I can run the ground from the mod chip as it should be.

Well I had to learn to use a new editing program as I went along BUT other than some auto focus issues and one camera drop    
 
I am quite pleased with the end result. 
 
 
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Is it really as bad as they say? 
Time to find out...
Ep 455: Karate 

I stopped following the ataribox because it just became some weird thing about tacos. Now I'm fascinated again, not because of the product or my desire to have one but to see what happens next. 

I really liked it. The only weird part is how he got the name "Solo". Seemed contrived and unnecessary but other than that, yea I really liked it. 

I stopped following the ataribox because it just became some weird thing about tacos. Now I'm fascinated again, not because of the product or my desire to have one but to see what happens next. 

I stopped following the ataribox because it just became some weird thing about tacos. Now I'm fascinated again, not because of the product or my desire to have one but to see what happens next. 

Not the least bit surprised, not because I have any faith in the project but because time and again we keep seeing people blinded by nostalgia goggles grasping at wishes and dreams over and over. People are stupid and refuse to see common sense or even remember history of failed similar fantasy consoles. It has the Atari name and woodgrain and sadly for many that is all that is needed. Not surprised they got funded, I will be shocked if anything comes of it.    I suspect NOW the real shitshow begins 

Frankly I'm shocked

I was wondering the same thing. This is not the NES classic and if the price point hovers around $100 I can't see anyone other than the diehards buying one. I'm not an Intellivision guy but I'd be interested if the price is right and hopefully they don't just do throwback controllers. It's the reason I don't own a real one. Those things are awful.