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A two year project finally nearing completion. Built because my all time favorite system is after all, the Nintendo 64.

Here is a sneak peek of the soon to be, P-wing64


It's Alive!!

Edit: More pictures to follow, someday hopefully..


-Carson

actually I just figured out the regulator was fried. Wired up a fresh one and it worked like a charm

I have little to no voltage coming off the 3.3 line of my stepdown regulator, anyone know what could be causing this? I'm using a 100uf 35v capacitor, could that be the problem?

This is probably a stupid question, but I've never worked with resistors before. Does it matter which end of the resistor is soldered to the connections on my stepdown regulator? I cant go by the diagrams here becaus I'm using a 1.8k resistor instead of a 2k. The diagram for the 2k shows the end ...

I read somewhere in the forums that said a 1.8k resistor with a voltage regulator would drop the 7.4v down closer to the voltage needed for the 64. So, is using a 1.8k a better option then using a 2k resistor? Also wouldnt using a 1.8k shorten the amount of time the portable will run as the battery ...

So this PCB would work fine? http://www.batteryspace.com/index.asp?P ... rodID=3006" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No actually I've had the battery for a couple months, I just posted a site that had the specs already. I'm having trouble finding a 7.4 pcm rated for 10a, I found a 9a but i dont want to risk it. Do I need to wire these cells parallel or singly and find two 3.7 pcm's?

It doesn't say, do you think this battery has a protection circuit?

Would this battery work? http://www.rk2trade.com/rk2trade/produc ... cts_id=260" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Compression between metal contacts.

That's correct, I just used tension from the existing pins to firmly press them onto the RAM's contacts. One more idea, besides never being able to access and adjust the pin placement again, would epoxy over all of the contacts and pins cause any of these ...

No I didn't solder it at all, that's why I went with the method I did to avoid having to. My being lazy and not soldering may very well be the problem, but would it run for few minutes then short if that's the case? And I just remembered I removed the red LED from the board, is there any possibility ...

Yeah I kept the stock heatsinks and shielding on the processors and I mounted an extra stock heatsink onto the RAM chip, no shielding on the RAM though. The problem exists with or without a heatsink on the RAM. I may need to go to more extreme measures to keep it cool, but it didn't seem completely ...

I hope somebody here can help me. I recently re-located the expansion pack using my own method, and thats all I have done to it so far. Everything seems to run fine, but about five minutes into gameplay the graphics skew and flicker then the screen goes black. Nothing will startup with any game for ...