Atari 2600 Composite INSTALLATION ( RCA ) TV Output MOD

**Upgrading a 1977 Console to 2019 Standards**

Want to stick to what's coated on that resistor was just being really painful but I finally got it so now let's get to drilling out the base cover and mount the RCA's and finish this up just kind of I don't know if you can really see I just kind of give myself a bit of a guideline kind of where I want them to be I'm gonna probably put them a bit lower than that but I just measured it out to kind of give a center area so what I'll do is I'll start off by making my first hole in an area that's roughly about the same as this Center as best I can go very slow okay shouldn't have probably free-handed as much as I did but it doesn't look that bad.

Okay, so before I solder everything up I just wanted to do a quick show of what I'm doing here so the ground wire is going through all the grounds at the back at the back here so all up along here so I gotta solder that the red will go through there two audio jacks and the blue is going to be your video so I'm going to start this up now, remount everything because at that point I should be ready to test the whole thing.

Test it out hey guys, there was one thing I forgot after you get your board mounted you stick your thing out of the way so it's it's gonna be safe here, your video upscale board, there's a dial right here see this dial okay that is your color control dial. So now that the RCA's are hooked up, you're going to need to adjust this to the colors to your preference. Put a bright game in like Pitfall or Frogger I'm gonna use Frogger and do your adjustments to get your color the way you want it because that's gonna be completely different from when you were using RF to RCA so just a pointer I for almost forgot I was gonna put this together have it all adjusted and I'll show you guys. So I'm just gonna power this up, the way it is, and show you guys that it's all working and adjust the colors while you guys can actually see me doing that.

Yes, there's the moment of truth here's where we had of course are snowy input because it was on channel 3 now we're gonna change over to RCA so it does know the RCA plugged in let's turn the console on. Well, we have audio hey colors aren't so bad okay guys well as you can see right off the bat the grain that was going on that I had going on in the 8R the coax hookup was actually really grainy it was a lot of graining going on and now that seems to be gone the picture is definitely much sharper and the colors were pretty much bang on from the AV mod to the from the I guess coax mod to the AV mod so I really didn't have to play around with that too much but it's extremely like I'll show you guys how extreme it can be so I'll just grab the console here we'll go over and if I go to address adjust the color wheel look it's now blue it's now red purple like it can be whatever you want it to be but we all know frogs are supposed to be green so I'm doing my best to make it that's probably the sharpest right there so that's probably where it was supposed to be and actually have it off there.

Now, I have the colors exactly where I want them. Lay my console down so there was a minor adjustment but nothing major so that's what they tell you that adjusting wheel is there to adjust the colors because once you go from the coax to the EB there's a definite sharper image color transitions are completely different you're now going through an upscale board and you need to adjust your colors very simple to do I use my finger actually to do an adjustment I didn't use a screwdriver, and anyway guys I hope you liked this video I hope I showed you guys how to bring your 1977 console into the 2019 sorta maybe there's an HDMI I'm on out there I want to get into but we'll have to check into that later but till next time guys please share like subscribe if you're not subscribing and till next time game over

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back guys to another special edition a mod edition of the last game hunter where I take something and I make it better or at least I think I do so today I'm wearing the Atari shirt because we're going to do a AV audio-video mod on a Atari VCS 2600 system now the Atari 2600 was introduced in 1977 in North America and has been a staple and an icon for what it has done it actually lasted till about 91 which is extremely impressive 91 or 92 somewhere around there not too many consoles can see this it actually was an act of product all this time not that it was you know around so this is probably one of the longest reigning consoles on the planet and to this day still very sought-after and loved especially for us older guys so what we're gonna do we're going to put an audio/video mod on the output so you don't have to fiddle around with these pulled coaxial hookups anymore I did it to a colecovision and unfortunately did not film it so we're gonna film it on this Atari and I'm going to link everything down in descriptions below of the parts where to get them and in this video you'll know how to do this mod I mean let's face it we all want to play et now just kidding we want to play pac-man we want to play defender you know we want to play an adventure yes please sit back relax enjoy this video smash the subscribe button if you're not subscribed to me and ring the bell for up-and-coming events because I'm always doing something crazy so guys let's get on with this and make this Atari hit at least to 2000s my son Horace has a Missile Command problem in life is to save all of mankind lately my daughter has developed a similar problem with Atari warriors now with video pinball my husband is acting funny lately with Atari so ingenious so involving so intense I ask you Atari Anonymous with this problem contagious okay guys so first of course you're gonna need to order the AV audio board now I ordered it as a build my own it's a few dollars cheaper and I kind of wanted to make everything from scratch so I thought that was kind of cool and the board is pretty much labeled anyway so I mean there isn't a whole lot there we go there isn't a whole lot that can actually really go wrong other than putting in your resistor backwards that's about it and the instructions of course follow the link below you can follow everything from there it's a well-made board it's labeled pretty nicely it gives you this multi wire inside this wire three RCA jacks your two resistors transistor and some double-sided tape of course to strap it down to decide the case after you're finished mounting it so let's get this built first and move on to the system removal of the motherboard and so on now at the worst I would think our hope is behind me there we go I put this together off-camera because well one you can buy it already assembled or it's pretty straight forward you can see it all on the pictures on the website and I didn't want to bore you guys when we just put in this little board together it's mainly the installation to the console that we're looking for so there it is built so it's up to you if you want to make it yourself or I did a pretty good job I gotta say or you just order the board already made and you just wire it up on the inside of the console so next we have to take apart this lovely old Atari this is the Vader actually I only own a junior two Vader's I don't own a woodgrain one yet still looking for one so this one here was sitting around did not even know if it worked I got it in a lot where everything was missing I had to buy a power doctor for it and everything and I tested it before doing this because it would just be a waste if I didn't and I actually took a screen shot or a bit of video close up to the television to see the graininess that was going on in the picture and I want to see if that you know completely improves so basically it was camera to the screen so I could see the graininess right up close and that's something I don't think a video capture card would capture the way I wanted to be captured so I want to see after this is done we're gonna take that same camera we're gonna go right to the screen and see if that grainy is gone I'll point it out when the time comes let's take this apart one nice thing is we won't be using this anymore it won't even be on the console anymore so Phillips screwdriver there's four screws here here here in here very very simple to take apart there's our four screws make sure you don't lose those and this should be pretty simple removal I would expect all right apparently the base is not what holds the board huh it's got a piece of paper stuck inside it let's take a look at that in a minute I have to say for 1977 this unit is very clean inside that is very impressive I open it and we have a piece of paper with this letter or something on it I have no idea what that means it's so old the tape just let go from it I'm just going to take that off that is really odd that was inside from factory I don't know if it was to mean a certain version or was it our we've repaired board who knows that is just weird so another thing I wanted to point out your cable for anybody that has an older Atari and your cable gets damaged well it's actually a plug in it is replaceable so you could just actually fix repair or replace this internal cable or just do the AV mod what you need to do is you need to remove this I guess you're gonna need to remove this housing it's actually I guess it was kind of an RF type frequency thing or whatever they did back then to not interfere with your output so that your output was the best possible output that it could be for its time but we're gonna take this off and we're gonna discard it after this we don't need it anymore we're not going to have that interference anyway and it is just on by some little tabs that you gotta bend and you take a needlenose pair of pliers straighten the tabs back out that comes and if you're honest this foil is no longer needed either just redundant redundant redundancy so now guys we have our board there's an Atari VCS motherboard that is all that's to it it is a very simple product and now we need to remove some parts and add in our new video mod now there's a transistor right here you'll see it next to this red coil the transistor right there we need to remove that resistor and just toss it or transistor sorry need to take it out cut it out make sure the pins aren't touching in any which way or form and toss it we will not be using this spot anymore okay the idea of course is to make sure that this guy is gone it's good to zoomed in here and there's no contact touching whatsoever now that's removed let's move on now on this model the next thing to be removed is this piece right here there's five pins going into the board so I have to remove this this is where our AV cables are going to solder in this site is pin one two three four and so on now this is the piece that you take out focus in here and basically after you D solder your tabs it's not just an easy take out there's actually solder in behind here holding it to the metal cage so just take that solder out and snap it off there's a piece of board this is a board that goes inside this thing and you just snap it off or cut it or whatever you want to do you're not using this anymore so in the end when it's all cleaned up it should look like this right here now we're going to take our already made video upgrade and we're going to now mount it to the board so we have the board park done so what we're gonna do try and point this up best I can here pin one is gonna be the one furthest away from the box so pin one it's gonna be black pin three so we're skipping pin two is gonna be red and then pin four is going to be blue so pin five is not used now over here we're gonna go in one two three four resistors and on the one end of the resistor this end here we're going to solder the yellow wire so I'll get that done well show it to you okay guys I gotta say that was a bit of work mainly because not this part here so much because it was just going down through a hole and you soldered the other side but right here go into that resistor it required a bit of heat some pressure it did not want to stick to whatever is coated on that resistor was just being really painful but I finally got it so now let's get to drilling out the base cover and mount the rca's and finish this up just kind of I don't know if you can really see I just kind of give myself a bit of a guideline kind of where I want them to be I'm gonna probably put them a bit lower than that but I just measured it out to kind of give a center area so what I'll do is I'll start off by making my first hole in an area that's roughly about the same as this Center as best I can go very slow okay I shouldn't have probably free-handed as much as I did but it doesn't look that bad okay so before I solder everything up I just wanted to do a quick show of what I'm doing here so the ground wire is going through all the grounds at the back at the back here so all up along here so I gotta solder that the red will go through there two audio jacks and the blue is going to be your video so I'm going to start this up now remount everything because at that point I should be ready to test the whole test and everything is solid up off the remainder let's put this thing together and test it out hey guys there was one thing I forgot after you get your board mounted you stick your thing out of the way so it's it's gonna be safe here your video upscale board there's a dial right here see this dial okay that is your color control dial so now that the RCA's are hooked up you're going to need to adjust this to the colors to your preference so put a bright game in like pitfall or Frogger I'm gonna use Frogger and do your adjustments to get your color the way you want it because that's gonna be important it's gonna be completely different from when you were using RF to RCA so just a pointer I for almost forgot I was gonna put this together have it all adjusted and I'll show you guys so I'm just gonna power this up the way it is and show you guys that it's all working and adjust the colors while you guys can actually see me doing that yes there's the moment of truth here's where we had of course are snowy input because it was on channel 3 now we're gonna change over to RCA so it does know the RCA plugged in let's turn the console on well we have audio hey colors aren't so bad okay guys well as you can see right off the bat the grain that was going on that I had going on in the 8r the coax hookup was actually really grainy it was a lot of graining going on and now that seems to be gone the picture is definitely much sharper and the colors were pretty much bang on from the AV mod to the from the I guess coax mod to the AV mod so I really didn't have to play around with that too much but it's extremely like I'll show you guys how extreme it can be so I'll just grab the console here we'll go over and if I go to address adjust the color wheel look it's now blue it's now red purple like it can be whatever you want it to be but we all know frogs are supposed to be green so I'm doing my best to make it that's probably the sharpest right there so that's probably where it was supposed to be and actually have it off there so now I have the colors exactly where I want them I lay my console down so there was a minor adjustment but nothing major so that's what they tell you that adjusting wheel is there to adjust the colors because once you go from the coax to the EB there's a definite sharper image color transitions are completely different you're now going through an upscale board and you need to adjust your colors very simple to do I use my finger actually to do an adjustment I didn't use a screwdriver and anyway guys I hope you liked this video I hope I showed you guys how to bring your 1977 console into the 2019 sorta maybe there's an HDMI I'm on out there I want to get into but we'll have to check into that later but till next time guys please share like subscribe if you're not subscribe and till next time game overwelcome back guys to another special edition a mod edition of the last game hunter where I take something and I make it better or at least I think I do so today I'm wearing the Atari shirt because we're going to do a AV audio-video mod on a Atari VCS 2600 system now the Atari 2600 was introduced in 1977 in North America and has been a staple and an icon for what it has done it actually lasted till about 91 which is extremely impressive 91 or 92 somewhere around there not too many consoles can see this it actually was an act of product all this time not that it was you know around so this is probably one of the longest reigning consoles on the planet and to this day still very sought-after and loved especially for us older guys so what we're gonna do we're going to put an audio/video mod on the output so you don't have to fiddle around with these pulled coaxial hookups anymore I did it to a colecovision and unfortunately did not film it so we're gonna film it on this Atari and I'm going to link everything down in descriptions below of the parts where to get them and in this video you'll know how to do this mod I mean let's face it we all want to play et now just kidding we want to play pac-man we want to play defender you know we want to play an adventure yes please sit back relax enjoy this video smash the subscribe button if you're not subscribed to me and ring the bell for up-and-coming events because I'm always doing something crazy so guys let's get on with this and make this Atari hit at least to 2000s my son Horace has a Missile Command problem in life is to save all of mankind lately my daughter has developed a similar problem with Atari warriors now with video pinball my husband is acting funny lately with Atari so ingenious so involving so intense I ask you Atari Anonymous with this problem contagious okay guys so first of course you're gonna need to order the AV audio board now I ordered it as a build my own it's a few dollars cheaper and I kind of wanted to make everything from scratch so I thought that was kind of cool and the board is pretty much labeled anyway so I mean there isn't a whole lot there we go there isn't a whole lot that can actually really go wrong other than putting in your resistor backwards that's about it and the instructions of course follow the link below you can follow everything from there it's a well-made board it's labeled pretty nicely it gives you this multi wire inside this wire three RCA jacks your two resistors transistor and some double-sided tape of course to strap it down to decide the case after you're finished mounting it so let's get this built first and move on to the system removal of the motherboard and so on now at the worst I would think our hope is behind me there we go I put this together off-camera because well one you can buy it already assembled or it's pretty straight forward you can see it all on the pictures on the website and I didn't want to bore you guys when we just put in this little board together it's mainly the installation to the console that we're looking for so there it is built so it's up to you if you want to make it yourself or I did a pretty good job I gotta say or you just order the board already made and you just wire it up on the inside of the console so next we have to take apart this lovely old Atari this is the Vader actually I only own a junior two Vader's I don't own a woodgrain one yet still looking for one so this one here was sitting around did not even know if it worked I got it in a lot where everything was missing I had to buy a power doctor for it and everything and I tested it before doing this because it would just be a waste if I didn't and I actually took a screen shot or a bit of video close up to the television to see the graininess that was going on in the picture and I want to see if that you know completely improves so basically it was camera to the screen so I could see the graininess right up close and that's something I don't think a video capture card would capture the way I wanted to be captured so I want to see after this is done we're gonna take that same camera we're gonna go right to the screen and see if that grainy is gone I'll point it out when the time comes let's take this apart one nice thing is we won't be using this anymore it won't even be on the console anymore so Phillips screwdriver there's four screws here here here in here very very simple to take apart there's our four screws make sure you don't lose those and this should be pretty simple removal I would expect all right apparently the base is not what holds the board huh it's got a piece of paper stuck inside it let's take a look at that in a minute I have to say for 1977 this unit is very clean inside that is very impressive I open it and we have a piece of paper with this letter or something on it I have no idea what that means it's so old the tape just let go from it I'm just going to take that off that is really odd that was inside from factory I don't know if it was to mean a certain version or was it our we've repaired board who knows that is just weird so another thing I wanted to point out your cable for anybody that has an older Atari and your cable gets damaged well it's actually a plug in it is replaceable so you could just actually fix repair or replace this internal cable or just do the AV mod what you need to do is you need to remove this I guess you're gonna need to remove this housing it's actually I guess it was kind of an RF type frequency thing or whatever they did back then to not interfere with your output so that your output was the best possible output that it could be for its time but we're gonna take this off and we're gonna discard it after this we don't need it anymore we're not going to have that interference anyway and it is just on by some little tabs that you gotta bend and you take a needlenose pair of pliers straighten the tabs back out that comes and if you're honest this foil is no longer needed either just redundant redundant redundancy so now guys we have our board there's an Atari VCS motherboard that is all that's to it it is a very simple product and now we need to remove some parts and add in our new video mod now there's a transistor right here you'll see it next to this red coil the transistor right there we need to remove that resistor and just toss it or transistor sorry need to take it out cut it out make sure the pins aren't touching in any which way or form and toss it we will not be using this spot anymore okay the idea of course is to make sure that this guy is gone it's good to zoomed in here and there's no contact touching whatsoever now that's removed let's move on now on this model the next thing to be removed is this piece right here there's five pins going into the board so I have to remove this this is where our AV cables are going to solder in this site is pin one two three four and so on now this is the piece that you take out focus in here and basically after you D solder your tabs it's not just an easy take out there's actually solder in behind here holding it to the metal cage so just take that solder out and snap it off there's a piece of board this is a board that goes inside this thing and you just snap it off or cut it or whatever you want to do you're not using this anymore so in the end when it's all cleaned up it should look like this right here now we're going to take our already made video upgrade and we're going to now mount it to the board so we have the board park done so what we're gonna do try and point this up best I can here pin one is gonna be the one furthest away from the box so pin one it's gonna be black pin three so we're skipping pin two is gonna be red and then pin four is going to be blue so pin five is not used now over here we're gonna go in one two three four resistors and on the one end of the resistor this end here we're going to solder the yellow wire so I'll get that done well show it to you okay guys I gotta say that was a bit of work mainly because not this part here so much because it was just going down through a hole and you soldered the other side but right here go into that resistor it required a bit of heat some pressure it did not want to stick to whatever is coated on that resistor was just being really painful but I finally got it so now let's get to drilling out the base cover and mount the rca's and finish this up just kind of I don't know if you can really see I just kind of give myself a bit of a guideline kind of where I want them to be I'm gonna probably put them a bit lower than that but I just measured it out to kind of give a center area so what I'll do is I'll start off by making my first hole in an area that's roughly about the same as this Center as best I can go very slow okay I shouldn't have probably free-handed as much as I did but it doesn't look that bad okay so before I solder everything up I just wanted to do a quick show of what I'm doing here so the ground wire is going through all the grounds at the back at the back here so all up along here so I gotta solder that the red will go through there two audio jacks and the blue is going to be your video so I'm going to start this up now remount everything because at that point I should be ready to test the whole test and everything is solid up off the remainder let's put this thing together and test it out hey guys there was one thing I forgot after you get your board mounted you stick your thing out of the way so it's it's gonna be safe here your video upscale board there's a dial right here see this dial okay that is your color control dial so now that the RCA's are hooked up you're going to need to adjust this to the colors to your preference so put a bright game in like pitfall or Frogger I'm gonna use Frogger and do your adjustments to get your color the way you want it because that's gonna be important it's gonna be completely different from when you were using RF to RCA so just a pointer I for almost forgot I was gonna put this together have it all adjusted and I'll show you guys so I'm just gonna power this up the way it is and show you guys that it's all working and adjust the colors while you guys can actually see me doing that yes there's the moment of truth here's where we had of course are snowy input because it was on channel 3 now we're gonna change over to RCA so it does know the RCA plugged in let's turn the console on well we have audio hey colors aren't so bad okay guys well as you can see right off the bat the grain that was going on that I had going on in the 8r the coax hookup was actually really grainy it was a lot of graining going on and now that seems to be gone the picture is definitely much sharper and the colors were pretty much bang on from the AV mod to the from the I guess coax mod to the AV mod so I really didn't have to play around with that too much but it's extremely like I'll show you guys how extreme it can be so I'll just grab the console here we'll go over and if I go to address adjust the color wheel look it's now blue it's now red purple like it can be whatever you want it to be but we all know frogs are supposed to be green so I'm doing my best to make it that's probably the sharpest right there so that's probably where it was supposed to be and actually have it off there so now I have the colors exactly where I want them I lay my console down so there was a minor adjustment but nothing major so that's what they tell you that adjusting wheel is there to adjust the colors because once you go from the coax to the EB there's a definite sharper image color transitions are completely different you're now going through an upscale board and you need to adjust your colors very simple to do I use my finger actually to do an adjustment I didn't use a screwdriver and anyway guys I hope you liked this video I hope I showed you guys how to bring your 1977 console into the 2019 sorta maybe there's an HDMI I'm on out there I want to get into but we'll have to check into that later but till next time guys please share like subscribe if you're not subscribe and till next time game over