Search results

Thank you both! Yeah, I've been thinking that an N64 mini is definitely among the projects I'd like to see come from this! I've done some additional testing on this project since my last post. I tested expansion pak support, ran the unit for over 4 hours straight, verified SummerCart and...

It's time for a major update! The assembly process for this was rather slow seeing how there were TONS of components to relocate. As seen in my previous post, I transplanted everything on the back first. So after that, I went ahead and moved on to the front: My first major priority with...

I'm really starting to run out of things to do on this project. There are a few misc internal file things that I've gone ahead and done, and I also changed the names of a lot of the nets since they were auto-assigned names by KiCAD. Here's how things look right now: This itself isn't...

Time for another update: I've added the majority of the silkscreen and I have just about everything together at this point. There's a small handful of things missing, for example, the cartridge slot's silkscreen is incomplete. But that's something I'll look into adding a bit later. Before...

Update time, here's the front: And here's the back: There's still plenty of work to do, but progress is coming along well. Initially I had the voltage planes filled in with filled zones, but today I corrected that. That's all for now, just wanted to post a brief progress update.

Yeah, that's what it was. Someone in the BitBuilt Discord was able to help me resolve this when I was going over ground plane connections. It's exactly what you said it'd be though so I appreciate the help! It's been a little since I posted an update here, so here's where I'm at: I'm not...

So I'm continuing to work away because I still have the motivation somehow. Would be really cool to get this done in time for MGC, but that's very unlikely. Anyways, here's how the board is looking: A lot has been added. I've initially chosen to make vias my main focus due to how safe of...

After doing a bit more digging and looking a bit more closely at the schematic, it looks like I overestimated how much there was left to do. As far as I can tell, right now the first real draft of this schematic is done: I've compared my schematic with the official schematic quite...

It's been a while since I've posted a progress update. I didn't realize I had made as much progress as I have since the last post, so here's an update: The schematic is coming along rather well. I want to say it's around 70% of the way there. It's difficult measure my progress, but I eye...

Funny you mention this, I thought this would be a great use-case for this project! Having said that, this project is unfinished right now, and the current progress on it isn't far enough along for release to allow for something like this. I started working on this again tonight, but expect my...

This project is going to be open source, so if people want to start building custom N64 boards using this as a base, nothing would stop that. I won't be making boards to sell for this project, no. The main goal here is just to provide the community and the internet at large with a "good...

Truly one of the highest quality shitposts this community has seen! Genuinely way too much effort put into recreating this! This is gonna be one hell of a sight to behold in person!

The MX Chip uses a coin cell. One side of the coin cell is positive (labeled with a +), and the other side isn't labeled at all (this would be the ground/minus - side): I'm pretty sure the Wii uses 2032s like this one ^ It may be difficult to get the solder to stick to this, so I would...

I looked at TP94 on a 4 layer board, and it looks like it's just a ground point. If that's the case, then any other ground point on the MX Chip should work just fine. Are you sure this is where you're supposed to be connecting the positive side of the battery to? I could also be wrong, but...

I'm not seeing which exact pad you're referring to, but I will say that each connection you're gonna end up making here is going to end up going to the MX Chip itself one way or another. Soldering directly to the MX Chip isn't difficult, and would likely function as an ideal alternative...

Would definitely help seeing some pictures, but I'm pretty sure this is intentional behavior that happens when both joysticks aren't connected properly (for accessibility sake). I've run into something similar after only wiring up one joystick. If I had to guess, I'd say this means your...

This year my secret santa was @CrashBash which is somewhat fitting because I bought for him last year. Everything came inside a big box which had a cooler inside it: This thing is NOT small! I put a Thinkpad inside it for scale: And there was LOTS of great stuff inside the cooler too...

I'm not really sure I understand this question. If you're talking about melting or liquifying solder on nearby components, then either your iron is too hot, or you're touching the iron to them. Are you able to better explain your problem?

This project is just nuts dude! I was hoping this would be open sourced one day, and I'm so glad to see that day finally come! I'll have to build one of these at some point for sure! Very very very cool dude!!!

I would imagine that's probably the best tool to use as I've heard fiber glass pencils are great for removing solder mask. I've never tried it myself though. You'll want to be careful regardless as it doesn't take much to scrape a bit too far. They are tiny vias after all.