so much for my N64...

Jman8 · Post by **Jman8** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:14 pm

My friend and I were trying to make a handheld N64. We removed the mother board and everything and it worked without the covers and stuff fine, at least for a while.

The day we were going to put it in the case, it stopped turning on for some reason, we think there was something wrong with the AC adapter. We built this battery pack and wired it up. We turned it on and not only did it not work, but some smoke came out the back!

I'm pretty sure we won't be playing it anymore. Do you guys have any idea what happened?

Post by **gannon** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:19 pm

were you inputting 12V and 3.3V into the n64 with the batteries?

Doofus · Post by **Doofus** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:11 pm

Maybe you overheated it?

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:47 pm

i think we (im jman's friend)maybe shorted it out with our oils, because we just attached the batteries and the n64 was off and it immediatly started smoking

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:03 pm

i don't know if this would cause it to smoke, but maybe you fried it. i heard they're very static sensitive

madc0w · Post by **madc0w** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:46 pm

Could be... *strokes chin*

Doofus · Post by **Doofus** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:21 pm

Too much voltage? I got a pop and some bad smells when I fried my NES.

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:27 pm

That sounds like you were feeding 12V to the 3.3V line. It could have been a bridge between a 12V trace and a 3.3V trace. This would explain the smoke. They are static sensitive, but I don't think that if you already fried the chips it would be smoking.