thank you that’s actually great to know i have original buttons as well so i may just clean them and throw the stock ones in
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Have you been able to test your trim yet?
no waiting on the batteries they were delayed in shipping, everything else is in minus the gc2+ and the pd2 resistances seemed okay though so i’ll hopefully have then
5/13 update wired how everything to test, fan turns on, screen turns on, wii gets warm, i have it wired to AV but when i power it on the screen is blue and says VGA in the top left then goes black, how do i change the screen over to AV
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update: same day lol
after getting on the 4layer discord i was guided to a pin out to swap the screen to av for testing, SUCCESS we have a working trimmed wii, now just waiting on the PD2 and gc2+ to come in stock so i can finish the whole circuit! still haven’t wired up the buttons since i don’t have the controller but i’m very happy it was a sucessful day . that’s decoder for the help in discord
after getting on the 4layer discord i was guided to a pin out to swap the screen to av for testing, SUCCESS we have a working trimmed wii, now just waiting on the PD2 and gc2+ to come in stock so i can finish the whole circuit! still haven’t wired up the buttons since i don’t have the controller but i’m very happy it was a sucessful day . that’s decoder for the help in discord
the trim is good !
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Nice that’s awesome! I am glad it worked! Great job on first try.
I broke 4 wiis before I got my trim working.
i honestly had another wii in my cart on ebay i case it didn’t go well i feel a lot better after getting it all tested now i’m just waiting in the last 2 pieces to come in stock and i can rewire the vga lines and start doing audio, i was most shocked i got the U10 soldered first try tbh
so i am about to have some down time at work and want to get my ashida wired up to vga, i read all the trim guides and was wondering if there’s an advantage to pulling the signal from the bottom of the board over using the points by the video caps ? i also twisted my wire with a drill and it’s wound a lot tighter than the wires shown in the gboy guide will that be okay ?
A tighter helix is fine, yeah. The only difference between grabbing the video from the big caps or the vias is a small amount of extra signal filtering if the big caps are still attached. It's not super important for how short our video wires are in a portable, so it's up to personal choice. I you want to solder to the larger capacitor pads for convenience, go for it. You won't see a tangible difference in the video quality either way
okay perfect thank you again i think i’ll prob try from the video caps it seems to be an easier spot, obviously v sync and h sync still have to come from the chip itself correct?
Yeah, only place to get HV sync is the AVE legs