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The SNES DA RW mod board allows you to listen to the pure digital output feed of Super Nintendo games. Having a separate single digital audio port on your Super NES makes for suberp audio quality when hooked into your compatible receiver. You can even buy simple USB devices that pass the pure digital audio to your PC, allowing you to record the music and sound for game reviews, or for just making your own perfect-quality SNES soundtrack rips. If you'd like to hear how clean and clear recordings from this mod are, I've provided a medley of Super NES tunes to demonstrate the quality these boards provide (just wait a few seconds for the free download link to appear on the filetrip page):
As you can hear from those recordings, digital Super NES music sounds awesome! This is also the best way to preserve original hardware recording of Super NES soundtracks. Emulators don't always get it right, and even when they do, it just doesn't tickle your nostalgia bone like knowing you're listening directly from original hardware-driven music. So why then would someone want to buy this board over others already on the market? Answer: This board offers a uniquely versatile solution of both coaxial and optical jack support at the same time! Additionally since the coaxial output is sent to wirepads, this allows the board to be mounted pretty much anywhere you like in any revison of the Super NES, including the smaller 'Junior' model released in the later 1990's. The support for coaxial in these boards means you can install them without cutting any part of the plastic shell. The included RCA audio jack comes with protective plastic washers to keep the RF port hole from even getting so much as the slightest scratch. Removal of the audio jack is as simple as unscrewing the securing nut and desoldering the hookup wires. Below is an example of my preferred board placement in the original Super NES console for coaxial output:
If your receiver or audio capture card only supports fiber optic lines, this board kit comes with a free optical jack that can be easily soldered to the optical pin ports on the RW board:
"RW" Mod Board Kit Contents:
1. Main mod board with components installed & pads pre-tinned. 2. Optional Coaxial "RCA" style jack with plastic washers and securing nut. 3. Optional Optical "TOSLINK" jack installed on the board. 4. One foot of shielded rainbow 26 AWG 10-line conductor wire. Kits are currently only sold to USA residents (not including territories), and will be shipped in USPS priority mail small flat-rate boxes. Price per unit is $32.95 ($33.95 for dual output jacks) with a one-time flat rate shipping/handling charge of $8.00 for up to 3 board kits. 4 or more kits will cost $16.00 shipping. Contact me via email (wolff@firebrandx.com) to have a board kit assembled and shipped!
Installation Guides: Installation of my mod board follows the same guidelines used for other similar SNES digital audio mod boards. The key thing to remember is pad assignment. My board's pad assignments are slightly different from other boards, so it's important to follow the assignments as listed on the back of the board. I've prepared guide pages of my own below for installation on various models of the SNES
SNES Original model installation instructions SNES 'Junior' model installation instructions
Special Thanks: Without the pioneering work and/or advice of the following people, my own digital audio mod project would not have become the refined product it is today: alpha-ii.com
And of course thanks to Cirrus Logic for making hardware-mode digital audio transmitter ICs!
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