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Forget the altoids tin. If this works, the correct move is to put it in a wiimote. Or at least, that was my old plan, but I ran out of todorsauce before trying to get this far, and boy howdy is that stuff hard to find.
The premise of just scoring the board might require a revisit; when I bent N64s I found it was better to dremel a nice, thin groove. more surface area, more flexibility, better chance of the bend working instead of snapping. But...those were just cartridge slots, which have a little breathing room. I think the magic words for things like this used to be "impedance matching" but it's been a minute since I've had to think about these things. I know the RAM is relatively sensitive? I vaguely recall a memory of a Wii that wouldn't boot if a fan was put directly on top of it lmao.
A supplemental PCB made by someone who understands what this kind of hardware "likes" could help alleviate those issues. It's also insane in practice, but when using the original boards, you could try removing the original trace, instead of just cutting it. I am curious to know if that might help with the instability. When you start fucking with sensitive, high speed equipment, you have to consider a lot more.
Anyways while the one who completes the trim definitely gets to name it, I had always assumed that because OMEGA was the end of the alphabet, the only thing left to do was loop back around to the start. It might be ostentatious, but probably deserved if this can be done. I'd certainly like to see it.
The premise of just scoring the board might require a revisit; when I bent N64s I found it was better to dremel a nice, thin groove. more surface area, more flexibility, better chance of the bend working instead of snapping. But...those were just cartridge slots, which have a little breathing room. I think the magic words for things like this used to be "impedance matching" but it's been a minute since I've had to think about these things. I know the RAM is relatively sensitive? I vaguely recall a memory of a Wii that wouldn't boot if a fan was put directly on top of it lmao.
A supplemental PCB made by someone who understands what this kind of hardware "likes" could help alleviate those issues. It's also insane in practice, but when using the original boards, you could try removing the original trace, instead of just cutting it. I am curious to know if that might help with the instability. When you start fucking with sensitive, high speed equipment, you have to consider a lot more.
Anyways while the one who completes the trim definitely gets to name it, I had always assumed that because OMEGA was the end of the alphabet, the only thing left to do was loop back around to the start. It might be ostentatious, but probably deserved if this can be done. I'd certainly like to see it.
