folding the n64

[βeta]

What if the caps were on data lines?

 

[blaze3927]

i lold at how the latency issues were avoided,
I tried this last year with a ps1 scph 9000, the subsequent relocation caused cd drive spin issues, sound and video distortion. and the ps1 has probably under half the wires.

 

[Mako321]

Either that or you missed half the traces

 

[ShockSlayer]

I'm pretty sure latency exists, but as long as all the wires are the same length(or shorter) then there should be no problems. I don't think it will matter too much except for the ram, but i have no idea, this is jsut what I muse at and parts of what i remember from a discussion with ER.

SS

 

[Mako321]

I would guess that it was more interference than latency.

 

[samjc3]

i lold at how the latency issues were avoided,
I tried this last year with a ps1 scph 9000, the subsequent relocation caused cd drive spin issues, sound and video distortion. and the ps1 has probably under half the wires.

hmm. what Mako says may actually be true. I had a ps1 that was cut right up the middle, about 3 inches in, right through 2 chips, that still worked almost perfectly.

 

[blaze3927]

i lold at how the latency issues were avoided,
I tried this last year with a ps1 scph 9000, the subsequent relocation caused cd drive spin issues, sound and video distortion. and the ps1 has probably under half the wires.

hmm. what Mako says may actually be true. I had a ps1 that was cut right up the middle, about 3 inches in, right through 2 chips, that still worked almost perfectly.

right up the middle
i went torwards a side to avoid any of the big, scary chips, ps1's are cheap as chips so ill try again sometime, once folded a ps1 board can fit into a dmg with plenty of room to spare

 

[βeta]

right through 2 chips

 

[Bush]

he means in between.

 

[samjc3]

she means in between.

No, I mean through. As in the cut went right through the center of the chip. Thats why I said it.

 

[XCVG]

Between the RCP, CPU, and RAM are the ones to worry about. I believe there are some that have to do with clock generation that would screw it up if rewired as well. Well, might be rewirable, but finicky for sure. I think the PIF, U9, video DAC and encoder, and AV analog circuitry should be fine.

Beyond a certain point of trimming/rewiring, though, you aren't making it any smaller- just trading thickness for size.

 

[Bush]

Quit it with the female thing. We know youre a dude.

 

[ShockSlayer]

samjc3 <- woman.

SS

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

Quit it with the female thing. We know youre a dude.

I'm the one that started this flax lmao

 

[Bush]

Can you end it? On topic: have you started this Hrduncan?

 

[Joeyjoe9876]

It's gone too far out of control. sorry bro.

 

[Hrduncan]

no im waiting on getting a n64 i might put this on hold for a while.... im probably gonna make a flashback 2 portable for a small project once i get the n64 though ill try it... im thinking first i cut the board down the middle then rewire it get it working then ill trim the rest of the outside and rcp it stick it in a case and make a super tiny portable might not happen until summer though.... we'll see

 

[Bush]

Sweet if this works that will be sweet. I want to remount all the chips on some bread board

 

[Hrduncan]

that would be awesome... and super tiny

 

[Bush]

I want to put one in a GBC. just seeing how much extra space the whacka64 has inside (it will be the smallest) shows me how smsll we can get.