Boy do I have a story/testimony for you guys, I recently acquired a NES-101 from EBay with a couple games for a decent price. Now a little back story, after watching all of the My life in gaming videos on youtube and reading and watching numerous RGB videos. I was set on getting a NES-101 system one day. So I went out first to my local video game areas here in Korea. But to my luck and obviously being in a Asian country all of the systems were either gonna be Korean or Japanese systems. So I said to myself I would just look and test but buy eventually purchase from Ebay or Amazon. So I went the Ebay route and with patience and a lil bit of sniping I got a one owner NES-101 with two controllers, one light gun, and 6 games. The guy was very helpful and courteous when it came to shipping to my military address over here in Korea.
At this time I have been waiting around 10 days for my package to come arrive in country. It normally takes around the same time 10-14 days for packages to arrive to a military address any where in the world............except when your unit is at a remote location and your unit has to pick up the mail from a hub station like Yongsan Korea which is like 1 hour and 20 minutes from my location of Panmunjeom right next to the demilitarized zone (DMZ). So this past Friday our mail handler picked up our mail from Yongsan and I was intent and knew my NES would be in here on the camp. What I saw when I got up to the mail room was devastating to my eyes as my heart dropped into my belly. The box looked liked it had fell into the ocean or something..........I will let the pictures do describe what it looked like.


The mail handler told me man I don't know what happened to your box. He said the post office got it like that and they had no words for him or for me. Now I'm a pretty resilient guy that never loses his cool for anything. So I stayed positive and prayed that it was packaged good enough inside the box to survive the trip from the states to Korea. So I got all my mail and went back to room with excitement and a bit of nervousness with a whole lot of Dam........running through my head. On a positive note I also picked up a black Retron 5 to hold me over once I get all of my systems off for RGB modding. I immediately unboxed the soggy box that held my NES-101 along with the games it came with. Inspected all the games and the system not knowing if it would power on after being in a hurricane rain storm, and everything kinda looked good. I powered on the Retron 5 and tested out all of the games and to my luck...............................................................they all worked!!!!!!!!!
Now I just needed to test the system to see if it would work. Saturday morning I decided to put the NES in front of my dehumidifier for a good hour just to dry out any components that may have been damped. That night I decided to test out the system but had to wait seeing that I have the Playstation 3d display that does not have a RF connector to it. So I packed up the system with the two controls and two of the games, Legend Of Zelda (Gold cartridge, & Kung Fu) and I headed to my office. I get to my office and go into the conference room and to my luck the 120V power converter does not work. So now I'm like hmmm where can I test this thing out knowing that I need a TV with a RF hookup in 2015. Light Bulb!!!!! goes off in my head, our gym has a big Ass 50 something inch TV in there with a RF hookup. I headed over to the gym and begin to unscrew the AFN coaxial input (Armed Forces Network). At this time I'm patiently waiting to see if this thing will power up. I finally figure out how to change the TV channel on this Korean TV to channel 3. So moment of truth after a lil over 18 days of waiting for my NES-101 to arrive in Korea.......The fist game I put in is Kung Fu and nothing, the TV is detecting the NES input but no video. So I go for the Legend of Zelda and Boooooooom, the system turns on.
At this time I'm so excited that this twenty something old gaming system still works after being in a damp box which may have gotten soaked but luckily for me it didn't get all the way to the system. so I finally get Kung Fu to work and I try both of the controllers and they both work. Man I must say that this lil system is one tuff lil sucker to make it all this way.