yay thanks for taking the boatload of stuff im a bit nervous to watch lol

My probe slipped and shorted pins 1 & 2 on the AMP-NUS chip which suddenly restored audio on a Pikachu console I was working on. I had already swapped the AMP-NUS chip and the audio output caps so I’m pretty sure shocking the cap connected to pin 2 made it work. Pin 1 was only 12v and the cap was rated 25v so I didn’t even hurt it. It’s been over a year now and the console is still working. Dude… BitBuilt and other portablization communities have documented the N64 to an extreme degree. Every board variant, pinout of even the proprietary digital video bus, and much more.

Glad to see you got it fixed! A possible reason you were getting so many shorts while testing with the console powered on is that the multimeters continuity mode is basically a voltage detector, one probe sends the voltage, one probe detects it. That also accounts for lack of continuity when the probes are reversed.

Thanks for the inspiration. I finally got a soldering iron and im trying to fix up some broken stuff i got.

Changing the caps gave the n64 a longer shelf life so it was probably best to change them anyway lol. Awesome job.

Great step by step breakdown of your commentary!!! Feb 2024

Great finds on those repairs. Well done!

Great vid as usual! Just wanted to let you know that I started electronics repair at my local trade school recently, I chose to do that in part because of your great content. Youve kept me interested and even blew my mind a couple times(Specifically when you did the rom swap for SMRPG and the character chip swap for I think Dragon quest?). Soon ill be able to comment with actual insight lol. Cheers. Keep up the good work.

Nice soldering

great work 😊

I read the comments and see everybody is grabbing their irons. Let the finger burning commence! When you burn a hole in the dinner table cloth, just tell people you smoke, they'll understand. I've always kept my N64 hooked up and guests would be like WOW! Then they would play it and the terrible frame rate would punch them right in their nostalgia googles.

Nice vid as always thanks 😊

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Nice! I got an N64 somewhat recently that wouldn’t power on. I knew why as soon as soon as I opened it and removed the shielding: some idiot apparently tried fixing it before and there were a bunch of bridged pins on the GPU chip... -_- I don’t have a hot air rework station yet and I figured that chip is probably fried, so since the shell was in pretty good shape, I got a different motherboard for it. Probably not the most cost-effective thing I could’ve done, but I don’t have the tools to try and fix that. I might still try to fix that motherboard at some point, but I’m really not optimistic about that chip and I’m still a novice at this sort of thing. Also, interesting tidbit about that Kirby 64 cart: I have a Japanese copy of that game and it has a save battery in it! I thought it was interesting how the North American version uses some kind of flash/memory save instead. Fortunately, the one I got works perfectly and didn’t need repairs, but I got it for pretty cheap, so it was a good test cart and a good game to boot.

Great vid

Yeah, the vast majority of single-ROM N64 game paks use the same board that optionally accepts EEPROM save chips (4k or 16k). A bunch of games have single ROM and dual-ROM variants but in general you can swap the ROMs from any game that doesn’t use SRAM, FlashRAM, or some other crazy setup, like a built-in modem.

Great video brother!!!!

nice video 👋

Great to see an N64 being brought back to life with new capacitors. I hope to get a set of gamebit screwdrivers for when it's time to replace the SRAM battery in my Smash Bros. cart, which is the only thing I had to worry about my Pikachu N64 besides cleaning the connectors and replacing a faulty Nyko Expansion Pak. It is important to note that disassembling Pikachu N64s are somewhat different, as you need to disconnect the power/cheek lights from the motherboard when removing the top cover. Donor boards are still possible (I suspect my console to use NUS-CPU-09 or 09-1), although you will need to desolder the red LED and solder the cheek connectors. You may also encounter green cartridge trays as well, although my console has a grey one. My console's serial number: NS294840559

nice fix on video

Lead-free AKA Pb-feee AKA RoHS AKA Reduction of Hazardous Substances-compliant has been the industry standard for over 15 years now. They started transitioning several years before that. It’s we electronics hobbyist and repair guys that continue using lead-based solder… for good reason. The big players only do it for California and EU compliance and to curry favor with Green Peace and similar orgs. I mean, the lead in this stuff wouldn’t end up in a landfill to contaminate ground water if the stuff didn’t break to end up there in the first place and yet switching to lead-free is what cost Microsoft BILLIONS and sent millions of failed XBOX 360 consoles into the trash.

Ur a god

3rd. Watching Now while I comment.

I’ve had all the consoles in my life but the Nintendo 64 never owned it and I always wondered what it was like

Question: Does working on these boards on CARPET pose a risk to the boards similar to how you can fry PC components ?

Nice job. I actually like working on N64s now. You ever mess with PS2?

what solder sucker is that nice work

I own over 50 Snes games and recently the only one that gave me problems was Terminator 2 the arcade game . it would. Not boot up despite cleaning it really good. And it would show squares /colors here and there or jus no picture. I returned it and got a refund and got a new copy of T 2 the arcade game and it worked fine

hello, what temperature do you use in your soldering iron?

I recently bought an N64 from a friend and some of the games work and some just to a black screen or some games will work for a little bit than go to a black screen I was wondering what I should do And what is the actual problem I’m not a tech savvy person can someone help me out plz

Whats the link for the pcbs boards for ,64 games?

The cic chip whats its funcion bro?

Hi so is there any chance I could send you my DK64 and my Kobe Bryant Courtside? I bought the Kobe Bryant game because it uses the same type EEPROM that DK64 has. My DK64 will not save whatsoever. DK64 is my childhood so I bought the Kobe Bryant game to do a transplant of its eeprom 16k into the DK64 since it uses the same eeprom and some redditors mentioned its possible. Im not a techy person and I don't trust myself to do it on my own. It requires fine hands. Which unfortunately I have tremors in my hands so I will most likely screw it up. If you could replace the DK64 eeprom 16k or do the transplant I'd be so grateful!! Thank you!! -Brian

Today I became a victim of my 20 year old n64 having its first possible issue and this looks really complex for me to try. My wife has never played Mario 64 :(

Great vid