Bud's N64 Trimming Guide

[ShockSlayer]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

Did the wild arctic bears jump onto the Titanic as it sunk into the cold, unforgiving ocean?

Nope, they watched Leonardo DiCaprio die, from a safe distance in their nice, fur coats.
They ate his bones later, and enjoyed his chilled flesh along with some penguins and a coke.


...
It was better on land.

SS

 

[bud]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

 

[Tchay]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

Hey I paid my dues in the GC scene. I'll let you N64ers hump eachother into success. And I'll win full custody rights over the resulting baby.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

The Wii scene is calling.

SS

 

[Ashen]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

The Wii scene is calling.

SS

 

[bud]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

That reminds me, I've got a bare wii sitting in my storage bin. I should totally crack dat Sega open.

 

[bud]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

flaxty MSPaint Illustrations! Yeah!

Be sure to pull off the extra capacitors before you start cutting, and don't cut the lines exactly like I drew them. Cut a little bit in front of the line and then sand it to the exact size you want. You break less boards this way. The blue lines on the back are 3.3v traces you need to relocate. Also, my label for 3.3v didn't show up very well, but it's where the yellow do it is. Let me know if there's any issues.

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

Looks good!

 

[Ashen]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

Awesome Bud! This'll help me out here alot real soon like hopefully.

 

[bud]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

Oh yeah, you may need to reconnect the two traces in front of the expansion port. To make it simple, the outer via on the right goes to the farthest via on the left. I hope that makes sense

 

[Ashen]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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

 

[ShockSlayer]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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.

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.

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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]

Re: How to trim a Rev3-4 nearly as small as a Rev5-9

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.