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Here's to a healthy, happy and prosperous new year to all! Safe to say 2016 has been a mixed bag for many, with more than it's fair share of negatives. Let's not add to that side of 2016 while celebrating tonight

My sympathies, fellas + kudos to you all for doing the right thing. Just make sure you Get Drunk once in a while.

@Mike and friends, it's these things that make you a soldier, a knight, a force to be reckoned with. You wouldn't be as strong as you are without them. They knock you down, and build you up again, each time reinforcing your resolve. This is what makes you, this is what separates you from the humdrum, this is what makes you special. Don't you forget it.

Thankyou Umpa setting auto position direct b2s to no fixed it.

UPDATE: I've been working hard planning the hardware side of things. I've been getting lots of help from the guys on the Mini NES Builders Facebook group. Once I finish the wiring diagram I will wire everything up to a breadboard to test. I'm using images of actual parts in paint.net layers to visualize the fit and pinouts, route wires, make notes, and see what it will look like before I solder everything in place. I'm still waiting on parts from China and may not get all of them until February! Lets hope that shipping estimate is wrong and I get them sooner. The parts list has increased too but, until I'm confident of what I will use in the final design, I won't edit the materials list in part 2 just yet. My glass Printer bed and new all metal hotend upgrades arrived today. I'll install them tomorrow and retry printing the case this weekend. I'll test it by reprinting the failed Z braces again, I think my cooling fan was the problem. Hopefully they will be done and I can install them Saturday. Then I can start the Top half of the case. I'm going to try a different filament for the bottom and cartridge that should be a better match, but it's going to be awhile before it gets here too. As busy as I have been researching the electronic, I have not even looked into the software side of things yet, besides writing the RetroPi to a 32GB SD card. I haven't even plugged in the Pi to see if it works...lol.. While I'm waiting for the hardware to arrive maybe it will be a reprieve to try and get some emulators working. A fun anecdote. I had an original NES sitting in a box that has been tucked away for years. I originally bought it for $7.99 at the Goodwill to replace a broken NES that is long since gone, it still has the sticker on it even. I decided to pull it out to compare its design with the mini NES and of course try it out! I suspected it was broken, but thought there might be a chance... While it took a bunch of blowing, jiggling, banging, and resets It still works, complete with buggy pixies, glitchy sprites, and that white noise audio when you turn it off!!! I miss that and don't at the same time...lol. But wow, I had forgotten how finicky it was to get working and all the tricks/sounds came back to me with great nostalgic effect. I'm actually surprised it still works. I played through the first world of Mario Bros. 3, then Metroid, and lastly Duck Hunt/Mario Bros. All carts still work, with varying degrees of tricks to get them to. So that was kinda fun. Here's a weird one, Player 1 and Player 2 controls are crossed. 1 is 2 and 2 is 1. I'll have to open it to see why, I suspect someone (Probably me at one time) reconnected them backwards. I think I was contemplating turning it into a NES Mini ITX PC, but decided against it. Glad I didn't pull the trigger. It's pretty Iconic and neat to have a working Stock NES. I may improve the aesthetics, it's pretty ugly ("pretty ugly" isn't that an oxymoron?) but should clean up well enough. It's yellowed quite a bit though. I don't particularly want to use H2O2 and UV to remove the patina though. It looks authentic and aged as it should (Like me).

Last I looked into it (about a year or two ago) those 21.9 monitors were about $350, so $150 - 15% for first purchase isn't bad at all. I would go that route if I hadn't already decided against it. Who knows, maybe one of these days the price will come down to a point where I can't resist. I'm kinda dreading it though, because then I will have the headache of actually fitting it and getting it running...lol.

I'm glad I inspired you. But remember, I myself was inspired by KustomKid with his project. So put the credit where credit is due. I think you were more inspired by that other guy who made his own mini NES with the RFID tags. I haven't updated my thread in awhile.. spent most of my vacation doing other stuff. I should update it though with some more pictures now that I have it nearly completed. Maybe on my day off. This is neat though, and I'm following your progress.

Almost there... Tested again with override off. The snapper doesn't take a screenshot of Bionic Commando as expected and does take one in Donkey Kong. When starting Bionic Commando a second time after DK it _does_ take a snap. So it's probably some re-initialization issue? Still all good with model 2 games. (I could't test Zinc since I'm not running it.) I attached the log of this test. Snapper.log

It's working for me now, although I'm not able to test Model 2/ZiNc, so if you could confirm those I'd appreciate it. I also fixed the web service, which was a server side thing unrelated to this plugin. I also added a game count to the GUI and added the option to enable debugging (there was already debug logging in there, just not a user friendly way to enable it). I did a bit more tweaking in places that were still a little rough around the edges, and got a pretty good performance increase for taking the snap (it used to take a few seconds to snap and render, but now is pretty much instant). Finally, I switched the screen capture command from Direct Draw to GDI for those if you that don't use the Direct Input method. Direct Draw always looked like rat nuts anyhow, so this is a step up for sure. @smario, please give this a try and if it works, make sure it disables for Model 2 games Gracias!