Still working on my N64p...

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:57 pm

propbably by now like $50?

Fabre · Post by **Fabre** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:48 pm

Lucretius wrote:If you're not too far into the project, see if you can find a way to get a rumble pak atatched to it. That's what I wish I had for the NDS. A rumble pak for it. Made game play real neat for me on the N64. Just wanted to say that...night everybody

You may already know this, but the Nintendo DS does have support for a rumble pack, via the GBA port. Sometimes a flash card will make the DS boot menu say that a rumble pack is inserted, and you can even set the alarm to activate a rumble pack! So it definitely has everything it needs built right into it, all we need is for Nintendo to release the cartridge!

Post by **benheck** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:18 am

I've wired up the new expansion pak (skipping connections that go to ground) and it still doesn't work.

I also tried wiring the main power switch back up the original way (and having the 12 and 3.3 volt powers going right to the plug) No dice.

ARGH! N64's are DIRT cheap (like $15 at the same place I got the rumble pak) but I'd had to take the darn thing apart again and re-wire the cartridge slot and expansion pak.

But I've also gone too far to NOT finish it!

Any advice?

Post by **Gamelver** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:15 pm

hmmmmmmm.........perhaps the 7805 is screwed up? or the N64 could be fried, too.........I know how you feel , though, these N64s are pretty damn fragile

!!!!!!!!!! I had to do three cart. slot relocations in one day because they kept frying

(I was trying to finish an N64p before I went to Vienna, and I was so close too

)....
anyway, if after you've gotten a new expansion pack, wired it up, and it STILL doesn't work, it seems as if you'll need a new N64 board

.

Post by **benheck** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:20 pm

Something else I've noticed... the 3.3 volt reg gets really hot really fast. It still outputs the correct voltage (like 3.28 I think) but yeah, you turn it on and in a matter of 5 seconds it's too hot to touch. It's only going from 8.5 to 3.3, shouldn't be THAT bad. And I've tried both the 3.3 regs I ordered (I order 2 in case one gets fried)

To me this spells a short-circuit or one of the 3.3 volt components in the N64 fried and sinking power like mad...

I suppose what I could do is buy another N64 and try to run it off the batteries/reg before I even start hacking it/rewiring things. I just didn't know they were so fragile! Other systems you can overload and mess up and they keep ticking (usually just the reg's fry)

-Ben

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:59 pm

benheckc wrote:I suppose what I could do is buy another N64 and try to run it off the batteries/reg before I even start hacking it/rewiring things. I just didn't know they were so fragile! Other systems you can overload and mess up and they keep ticking (usually just the reg's fry)

-Ben

hate to do this to you, Ben, but

http://www.doomportables.org/basics.html

I take it you tried the method of powering it without a cart first? Are all the cart port wires in correctly? Is the cart in backwards?

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:18 pm

Hahaha! Nice one sponge

The great ben got ahead of himself

you turn it on and in a matter of 5 seconds it's too hot to touch.

Those are the same results I got when I tried to make my N64 run off a regulator. I think the amperage is just to much for one reg.

Q for ben: Is this harder than the PS2p?

Post by **benheck** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:19 pm

Well I went and got another N64 (only $14) I wired it with the 3.3 reg and the batteries and it worked fine. So apparently SOMEHOW the other N64 got fried (I checked the cartridge rewiring 3 times, I'm pretty sure it wasn't that)

So NOW I am going to rewire the cartride slot, then test, then re-wire the expansion, test, instead of rewiring EVERYTHING and testing.

Maybe I'm getting too cocky! Oh well, assuming everything goes well now I can probably still have it done by early next week.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:20 pm

benheckc wrote:you turn it on and in a matter of 5 seconds it's too hot to touch.

Well there is a thing called a heatsink... Use one!

Post by **gannon** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:34 pm

Why not just use water to cool it down

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:40 pm

lol, a water cooled N64!

Thats about the dumbest idea ever.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 6:57 pm

G-force wrote:lol, a water cooled N64! Thats about the dumbest idea ever.

Or the greatest idea ever!

I'm not suprised that you fired the thing, after all collectively I'm sure theres about 20 N64 (maybe more) that have fired when attempting to make it portbale. This explains why I'm so meticulaous about if something will damage something else or not.