Portable N64

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:07 pm

Hey everyone, my friends and I would like to build a portable N64 this summer. Does anyone have nay advice or any helpful hints/tricks.

Thanks

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:13 pm

Don't put 12v in the 3.3v line.

Sure! Use a psone screen, and use a third party controller any put a gamecube joystick on it, it makes the n64 much more fun. As stated above, the n64 uses two voltages, 12v and 3.3v. The 12v line is VERY flexible, it will go anywhere from 35v to 7v or 6v. The 3.3v line however is very, very picky. 3.5v is enough to fry it

If you are going to use the jumper pak it will go down to 2.89v, but if you are using the expasion pak is quits at around 3.1v. Use decent amperage batteries too, don't settle for short battery life like some

Also, buy ben's book off of amazon.com, it teaches you how to solder and LED mod the psone screen, and it teaches you about electronics in general! And here is a nice diagram to wire it all together! http://forums.benheck.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14556

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:31 pm

Thanks a bunch dude, do you recomend anything else. What about the case....thats one thing im confused about lol

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:33 pm

Mozz12 wrote:Thanks a bunch dude, do you recomend anything else. What about the case....thats one thing im confused about lol

First portable cases are always pretty large, I'd try making one in the n64 case. If you want a picture, I can get you one of a good portable design in the case, and you don't even have to relocate the cartslot

thewise1 · Post by **thewise1** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:34 pm

It's very difficult to make a case unless you are completely devoted to it. Most people buy premade cases from polycase.com

The most common for n64 is the zn-45

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:37 pm

Does anyone have a picture of a polycase zn-45 portable n64?

Really, how hard is this going to be lmao...

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:41 pm

Oh and what website should i got to find the battery i will be using?

thewise1 · Post by **thewise1** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:44 pm

If you want to know about zn-45 look and polycase.com

And if you want to see it n64 style

Ask shockslayer

He also has videos of it on youtube. Search shockslayer on youtube.

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:51 pm

I want to do the polycase, but im very new to all of this and i need like exact details because i dnt want to go tearing into my n64 and ruin it lmao. What kind of batties do i need lol

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:08 pm

Mozz12 wrote:I want to do the polycase, but im very new to all of this and i need like exact details because i dnt want to go tearing into my n64 and ruin it lmao. What kind of batties do i need lol

You want either Lithium Ion or Lithium polymer (maybe even lithium magnesium) at 7.2-7.4v and has 6000mah or higher. Ebay has some really good deals on camcorder batteries.

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:11 pm

Well i do work at best buy, and i get OUTRAGEOUS discounts, so if you dont mind lol, could you or anyone for that matter go to the best buy website and pick out any batteries that would work on the project.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:13 pm

Mozz12 wrote:Well i do work at best buy, and i get OUTRAGEOUS discounts, so if you dont mind lol, could you or anyone for that matter go to the best buy website and pick out any batteries that would work on the project.

Best buy sells batteries for like 500% more than ebay does

(did I do my math right? $30 on ebay, $150 on best buy/sears/any of "those" places)

Mozz12 · Post by **Mozz12** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:16 pm

Like i get a really good discount, like the most expensive battery we sell is 100 dollars, i would get it for like 40 bucks lol. If there are ANY parts I could get from best buy i would most likely prefer it.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:18 pm

Mozz12 wrote:Like i get a really good discount, like the most expensive battery we sell is 100 dollars, i would get it for like 40 bucks lol. If there are ANY parts I could get from best buy i would most likely prefer it.

I'm not sure that you can get ANY parts besides the battery there

You need a soldering iron, desoldering iron, screwdrivers, solder, stuff like that. I'll look around their site for some batteries.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Thu May 28, 2009 8:32 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/3-7V-6000-mah-6-0Ah ... .m20.l1116
You would need two of these and a protection circuit, but much better than the best I could find on best buy :http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... 0289357568
That is just rediculis.

another choice for batteries:http://cgi.ebay.com/Battery-Canon-BP945 ... m1c521c353 These have a built in protection circuit and such.

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