Hurt or Help value?

[Niku-Sama]

A hypothetical I've been tossing around the past few weeks.

Do you think it would hurt or help the value of a sharp nes tv if it was modified with a blinking light win or something of the same sort?

[celerystalker]

Definitely hurt. On a rare collectible like that (awesome find, by the way), originality beats functionality, like petina on an old rifle. I think you can look at something like the Neo Geo AES as a reference, where a modified japanese console with unibios, led, etc. still costs less than a plain old US system, just because of the desired scarcity and originality. When it's that rare, modding is a definite negative like an unprofessionally restored antique.

[Tanooki]

Hurt depending on the person.

Can BLW be installed without doing one piece of modding to the board of the NES inside?

I would think if you could slide that in there, and then keep the original pins/zero force slot for the next person I don't think it would matter. You could store it in a nice cool safe place in a zip-lock and if you ever sold it, then you could just pop it back in or give the next person the bag of the original parts with their choice which is installed. Though you would also likely hit some purist snob somewhere who would want to go nuclear on your ass for daring to sully it with after market parts and having the nerve to open it up risking damage (twice to restore.) There's always some crank, this is assuming, as I never cared to look into BLW if it changes anything or it's just pop n' swap operation.

[Niku-Sama]

It's just a swap of the cart connector and loading mech:
https://youtu.be/IvZojLIOUKI

It just seems that Dr Mario was in the system and pushed down for the better part of a decade and it's the only game that reliably works... Go fig