Bud's N64 Trimming Guide

Ashen · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:03 pm

Incidentally, has anyone ever tried hooking up a GC controller to the N64? From what I got from Emu_kid and a few other codejunkies, they are just about the same Dang thing apparently.

bud · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:07 pm

Well there's the cube64
http://cia.vc/stats/project/navi-misc/cube64
http://code.google.com/p/cube64-dx/

ShockSlayer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:35 pm

I'll try it straight up directly sometime, would be funny if it worked, it would mean ninty hasn't changed anything since the CC's work on GC's.

SS

Ashen · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:32 am

Tried a preliminary cut like this yesterday and I'm not getting jack flax out of it. RCP and ram get hot, cpu stays cool. Any suggestions?

bud · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:03 am

It's been a while since I've done this trim, but I've got a few spare boards right now, so I'll look into it sometime later today.

βeta · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:01 am

Ashen, do you have Adobe Photoshop?
I've been putting together a massive image over the last year or so, it's got flax tons of layers for all kinds of N64 stuff. It's a super useful reference for doing trims.

HardOtto · **Joined:** Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:49 am **Posts:** 50

Thanks Bud. The others may not be to impressed with this but I found it useful to know you can take the capacitors in the too right corner off. Also I assume the yellow point in your diagram is Composite Video and this cut does not require an RGB Mod.

Thanks

Ashen · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:41 pm

bud wrote:

It's been a while since I've done this trim, but I've got a few spare boards right now, so I'll look into it sometime later today.

Thanks Bud, I'll try a bit more conservative cut on another board. I just can't manage to see what I'm missing here.

βeta wrote:

Ashen, do you have <a href="http://www.adobe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Link added by VigLink" class="vglnk">Adobe</a> Photoshop?
I've been putting together a massive image over the last year or so, it's got flax tons of layers for all kinds of N64 stuff. It's a super useful reference for doing trims.

That would be awesome Beta, thank you.

HardOtto wrote:

Thanks Bud. The others may not be to impressed with this but I found it useful to know you can take the capacitors in the too right corner off. Also I assume the yellow point in your diagram is Composite Video and this cut does not require an RGB Mod.

Thanks

Who said they were not impressed?

bud · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:51 pm

The only thing I can tell that would stop it from working is how close you cut in front of the expansion slot. You severed the bottom traces of the U8, and there's two traces on the back that I've always had to reconnect.

Ashen · **Posted:** Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:02 pm

Yea, the U8 had been my thought also, looking at Beta's sanded board scans though I figured those traces were unimportant seeing as how the U8 can be removed completely. The two other traces of the far right and left via's by the expansion port on the back I've relocated already.

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