NES Ac Adapter

Hey guys, I was wondering if you all could help me out. I recently bought an NES at a yard sale. The system works. They plugged it up before I bought it. It was only 5 dollars and came with an RF switch, the gun, 2 controllers and 2 games. So, both games work. I need an AC Adapter. They wouldn't sell it as part of it and for only 5 dollars I felt like it was okay. Okay, now I want an ac adapter and I am having problems finding one. Does anyone know of a place I can get one online? (not ebay) Or does anyone know of another ac adapter that also works with NES???

Thanks for your help!

This may be a little pricey, but I've never had to buy an adaptor...

Well, I don't really mind paying a good amount for the adapter since I did get the system so cheap.

Hey, thanks for the plug. I appreciate the referral.

No prob I had no problems when dealing with you before! Good site you have there. I love the SMS section.... great prices!

if you dont mind me asking why didnt you just fork out for the adapter or
was it like 20 bucks or something

the input: 120V AC 60Hz 7.5W
output: 12V DC 300mA

write that down and take a trip to Radio Shack, look for it yourself or ask an employee.... or you could go to a thrift store or a Goodwill and search the bins by the computer stuff, a Goodwill by me has a bin that's always full of computer cables, telephone lines, ac adapters, controllers and all kinds of random cords for electronical stuff

if you decide to look at Goodwill, chances are they'll have one made by Nintendo, and it'll say Nintendo on it

I know this is late but it happened to me recently and I found out that a DC adaptor will work fine, I have one that is 7.5 volts center positive and 800mA and it works fine on my modded NES.

It might work fine for a while, but evetually nuke it. I made that mistake before.

Messiah was also selling *new* adapters for the original NES, but I can't seem to find them on their site anymore. If you go to the NES section, it's listed as a "related product" down at the bottom, but the link takes you to the online store, where they are apparently not selling them anymore...

Might wanna place a call or email them to see what's going on there.

Using an adaptor with less voltage won't hurt the system (the NES "runs" off of 5 volts inside and needs at least 7V input to run) Too high of a voltage (like an 18V adaptor) could generate too much heat in the 7805 (doohickey that drops unregulated wall adaptor voltage down to a regulated 5 V) and fry it.

You should be able to get one at any Radio Shack or a universal one at any Wal-Mart.

Yep. I've got one from Radio Shack that's adjustable for the volts, and double-tasks for the NES and a guitar effects pedal that would eat 9V batteries if I didn't have an adapter.

Newbie here, but "professional" (arcade) game tech.... need help with this one, my NES has ratings for 9VAC, not 12VDC. There is a difference. I want to know what harm would it cause to put, say, a Genesis plug on there (which has worked before, is 10VDC)? I don't know if this NES is some obscure voltage rating because it came from Canada, but doing some other online research comes up with it being 9VAC....

Any help is appreciated, I know there are probably a bunch more kids on here than "techies" who probably don't know that AC and DC are different, but any help is appreciated.

You're a "professional" and you come asking why a DC adapter won't work in place of an AC adapter?

You're a "professional" who thinks that Canada has weird voltages for consumer electronics...

THEN, the "professional" insults the knowledge of the whole board by assuming we're all kids who know nothing...

Well, _I_ certainly won't be helping you. Something I could have done with much less effort than I'm spending to type this up. I'm going to advise that nobody else help a cocky bastard either.

Oh, is that what he said? I'm a kid who knows some things, but has the attention span of a goldfish, so I didn't get all the way... hey! What's that over there? Pretty bird!