Pocket64 WIP DONE

DefectX11 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:09 pm

Woah, hold on a sec-
There's RAM solder points on the 5th gen!?!? :shock:

I've got to read up on the N64. Don't know a thing about 'em.
And Perfect Dark- great game.

bud · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:20 pm

I've seen them on all revisions

DefectX11 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:50 pm

Oh. Still, thats great.
That'd be horrible to solder without the right equipment.

bud · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:16 pm

Wait, are you talking about the solder pads that I put the new ram on? There were chips there, but I desoldered them to replace them with higher value chips.

Mr. Hooker · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:12 pm

This is just a concept, and I have no clue if it's even worth the trouble to test out the theory, or if it's something you was already planing, or if it would even work. Just thinking of the extreme shrinking of a N64 mother board.

Since you don't need the expansion slot anymore other then holding a cut down jumper pack, (that only give's the required continuity and basically act's like a "termination circuit")that you might be able to remove the slot and trace out the lines that the jumper pac bridge's, and add the few small surface mount components directly to the slot's pad's? that would intern flatten the whole board to the height of the ic's and capacitor's.

I used to use scsi terminator's on my old file server back in the late 90's. it cost $5-$10 to make or $30-$60 to buy.

Again, it's just a concept, with only the intent to help. Might try it myself in a few mounth's if it hasent been done befor then.

Sorry. Anyway's, back on topic.
That's pretty awesome, I had no clue the N64 onboard ram could be upgraded.

bud · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:27 pm

What you just said is basically taking the capacitors and resistor packs off of a jumper pack and hardwiring them to the board. People have been doing that for years.

Edit: gingivitus-inviting spellcheck.

Mr. Hooker · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:30 pm

ohh, cool. So with the ram upgrade and surface mounting the parts inplace of the slot, you could/will/have basically integrated the the whole N64 expansion pack onto the motherboard.

That's a good peace of info there, up till a tonight I thought the only way to keep the expansion pack and make it flat, was to remove the slot and trim the pac, and then wire it to the motherboard to lay flat.

cool stuff.

DefectX11 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:41 pm

Mr. Hooker wrote:

Since you don't need the expansion slot anymore

What about the N64 DD :cry:

JK. How small are you planning to get this board? It be interesting to see a new breed of extremely small N64ps rolling out with the idea of soldering everything to the board.

thelukestir · **Joined:** Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:07 pm **Posts:** 217

DefectX11 wrote:

It be interesting to see a new breed of extremely small N64ps rolling out with the idea of soldering everything to the board.

bud wrote:

People have been doing that for years.

DefectX11 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:02 am

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