Game Genie had a thicker circuit board than a game cart, to get a good connection in the frontloaders. The toploader’s cart slot is pretty tight, to get a good connection. Combine these, and it feels like the cart slot is going to pull off of the circuit board before the Game Genie lets loose. Everdrive/Powerpak would work fine.

Galoob offered an adapter for the toploaders but they are extremely rare.

Honestly, even a Trinitron TV with composite looks as good as RGB at the resolution of NES.

The “vulnerability” was only that F-Droid wasn’t keeping up with their builds, leaving everyone who installed it from F-Droid out-of-date, during a period of known Firefox bugs being exploited.

Remember Craigslist? I got a toploader for $40 with games because it had been stepped on and crushed! Some Bondo, paint, AV mod…

Toploader not recommended if you like to use Game Genie.

RGB mod: It’s expensive IIRC because you need to replace the PPU (video chip) entirely with one from an arcade board or a modern FPGA reproduction. Edit: Sweet Jesus, you’re looking at about $250 for RGB kit installation…

At the time, if you bought a new US toploader then complained to Nintendo about the video quality, they would replace it with a revision with no jailbars. There’s also a very rare US toploader with the composite AV port and no jailbars!

https://consolemods.org/wiki/NES:NES_Model_Differences

Them eggs is spensive cuz they real good ones. I gottem and gonna eatum with my limited edition cheese and laugh at the poors!

Don’t do it if you are black in the US, cops will hospitalize or kill you, even if you are trying to pay for the eaten one.

https://www.theroot.com/police-send-black-man-to-the-hospital-over-a-piece-of-d-1851209458

Psychology. The sign gets extra attention and also makes one think the people holding the sale might be stupid and not know the value of the items they’re selling.

Should have gone for the heart; I don’t think further damaging the brain would have much effect.

It’s not our fault that the actually reasonable conservatives were already drowned out by the raving lunatic fascist mobs.

gestures broadly at US federal government