Had the same exact issue with the ribbon and i though I was doing something wrong. I bought high temp silicone wire from amazon and redid all the soldering worked great. I even bough an HDMI tester that plugs inline and it showed missing signal. I almost reprogrammed the FPGA board using the Pluto programming windows application. Again all was solved with replacing with individual wires!

That mic is fire.

The Pluto board was my very first mod back in 2016. That was an absolute nightmare to get installed without any soldering experience, and as a college student without access to 3D printing. It’s permanently hot glued inside my GameCube and I’m deeply, deeply ashamed.

Saw the capton tape and knew it was macho nacho

Voultar is the Bob Ross of soldering

I agree with you about not using ChipQuik but you said you weren't going to use any expensive soldering system and then you broke out a $200 plus de-soldering gun. Made me chuckle.

"...prettiest system Nintendo has ever built." Preach brother!!!

35:44 I was just saying in another thread--this is very similar to what I consider a major downside of silicone wire insulation. Most kinds of wire insulation deform *plastically,* meaning that you can bend them and they will roughly stay bent. You can reflow your solder joints with the wire in its final position to make sure that there is no stress being applied to them by the wire trying to return to its original shape. Silicone insulation, although it bends more easily than some other types, deforms *elastically.* It will almost always try to spring back to its original shape. This can put strain on solder joints for sure.

LoL "Our Lord Voultar" , LoL I spat out my home made strawberry wine. LoL

In every video Lord Voultar is working so precise that soldering become fun to watch.

Great video! I appreciate how in depth you go when explaining things and show all your work (when the camera allows, understanable ha) instead of cutting to the end. It really helps teach good habits and technique.

This video is perfect. I've learned about every mod from Macho Nacho's videos, and this video ties everything I plan to put into a gamecube I recently bought on ebay into a beautiful bow.

Gotta say, watching tito put that pluto in had me cringing as well. Spend the coin and just get the hakko 301.

I got a Pinecil soldiering iron for Christmas, and I think it'll be real fitting that my first mod would be for my first console. Before, the most modwork I could do with those soldering irons you plug into the mains was nil, all I ever managed to do was to solder a wire so my AGS-101 screen had an extra step of brightness in an OG GBA (I now want to install a new screen and an audio mod.) Now there's this world that's opened up and I can take it on with confidence thanks to your help! Thank you!

Honestly, this is the best tutorial for installing the pluto mod. Definitely going to be recommendating this to anyone who is installing a pluto mod

The flex cable for the Pluto board. Wouldn't it be better to make a sharp fold where it is marked with dashed lines? Leaving it rounded bent instead of sharp folded, will always stress both the flex cable and the GC circuit board.

Came here for the Game Cube mods that I'll probably never fit, stayed for the Bob Ross style soldering tutorial. Nice!

It’s like Nintendo hates fun. Also I miss Iwata. That guy was awesome.

I really think these ribbon cables can only take the smallest about of heat before they break, and they definitely can't take 2 or 3 reworks. Like a 2 second tap and done kinda deal. The Kunai interface board looks like it was fabricated at JLCPCB without the "castellated holes" option selected. Likely to reduce costs as this option can sometimes triple the production costs of these boards. I've done this myself multiple times when you just can't justify the astronomical price increase.

Nice video. I'm personally more a fan of the pico boot, but I also have over a dozen of the various Pi versions I use for loads of projects and tasks. I've been meaning to get around to modifying the HD port to HDMI, but haven't been in much a rush since getting the steamdeck and having my whole console Library on it with saves backed up to my NAS. I'm looking forward to the coming M.2 adapter for use on the gamecube too.

You're the Bob Ross of the soldering world. "Just make some happy little trees - of solder".

this felt like a bob ross painting episode. loved it.

Finally, somone addressing the issue of how to desolder through hole components properly. Too many times i see dodgy ways of through hole compnents being removed. Not that i am an expert but i have done a electronics course with lots of soldering involved and that was one thing they taught us never to do

Voultar’s soft and calming voice needs two mics to gather all the beauty of it. Great job with your new clip!

So, the Pluto board should be forgotten, just like the planet Pluto!

I've been following your progress and frustrations on Twitter for these mods, so it's nice to see a complete video to have everything come together. I've already done the PicoBoot mod to my GameCube, but some of the other mods here are on my radar now.

I like the kunaiGC because the picoboot needs to be mounted externally away from the IPL outside of the shielding (which stresses the flex/wires leading out) and this is hidden inside next to the IPL, as well as the built in on-board storage. But perhaps someone could just create a qsb with SD support for the 2040. The reason 2040 boards are superior are not from function, rather, availability, updates and price. The fact that they will be available and have updates way after people who make things like the Kunai GC and other modchips decide to stop production and updates. I know you as well as myself and many others have had issues sourcing things like the GCdual. 2040s have so many applications that they will always be plentiful and available.

I cannot explain how much I love these videos. You're also an absolute wizard with a soldering iron haha!

i love how this dude just mops the floor with everyones solders skills and spits flux in our faces but god damn he aint wrong

Awesome vid as always. Do you think it'd be possible, at some point (maybe a later revision by the creator) for the QSB on the Kunai to switch from using its pads to interface with the modchip's castellated edges to using headers, and the modchip's through-holes? I realize that gravity is probably not all that much of an issue, but I'm not sure how I personally feel about the way this interfaces... seems unnecessarily clumsy. Would it be inconvenient for the person installing it, given its small footprint?

Lovely video. I had no idea there were so many handy GC mods. Also, the toy microphone is just *chef's kiss*.

I've used Helder's flex cable for a couple of these, I personally think it works well, but it is extremely sensitive. I've had the little edges detach on the GC side a couple of times as I was reworking the GC side destroying the cable. It's cleaner, but I'm not sure if it's better. I would recommend screwing the pluto down with at least one screw to the mount, I've had the pluto pop out before.

esse estilo de soldar, fico perfeito, simples e limpo,otimo trabalho !!!!!!

I am hoping for a GCDigital from PixelFX. I got an Orange GC waiting for that :)

Glad you're back brother. Let's do this.

Thanks again for all the explanations and it was fun to watch! I suppose you can take your time and use a manual pump and solder wick for the port if you don't have a de-soldering gun/tool?

You are so encouraging; I appreciate you for helping me learn to solder and mod.

Bob Ross of electronic soldering!!

Ive been watching your videos for a while and i love em. I runa repair shop and keep wondering, where do you get that electric torque driver and the bits that fit the GameCube??

Huh, I've been using quickchip for tricky joints on older vintage boards that I didn't feel could handle too much heat. I just use a tiny bit on each contact, certainly not flooding and using hot air though. A little bit goes a long way.

I'm not sure if you mentioned this in the long video but a common consequence of being too rough with the heatsink is knocking off the diode arrays that protect the serial ports--they're little SC-70 packages with refdes like DA15. For anyone that has a board where these are missing, I found some replacement parts: Rohm part numbers UMP1N and UMN1N. Which one you use depends on whether the footprint connects to ground or 3.3V. I believe these are original parts used by Nintendo because the markings match some photos of boards I've seen. I verified these parts are correct based on a GC mainboard schematic a kind fellow slipped me.

I just watched the video containing the hot air/ChipQuik example the other day... Maybe a good idea to look up multiple such instruction videos when trying something like this.

Thanks for the SNES 2Chip EE Mod, Kudos from Poland 🍻

You do a really good job with your videos . I think I watched your xstation walkthrough when I first started doing these

Jesus Voultar, i could just close my eyes and just listen to you solder boards all night long 😂

As a former video game system repair person of 5 years, I have to say your video is highly informative, offering several techniques I don't see often (I often see more hacky solutions like hot air, and prying). That said, please don't take this next bit as anything other than slight constructive criticism, but I notice you seemingly get caught in looping (like you spent a few minutes reiterating how others tend to remove the digital out port, before you show how to properly do it. Makes it harder to follow along for me personally, but either way, entertaining and informative video! I really like the step by step instuctions, and while you're showing your work you explain why it is useful.

I recognize that chip quick video. Its macho nacho's pluto board video. I admit he did not have a good day with that one since he also put in the cable backwards at first. Usually his mods look pretty good and clean. At the end he did his pluto board right and it was looking good.

Love how your title always seems to get a bit longer ;-)

Great video like always. Do you have a link to that uv resin you used, seems like a much better alternative to using kapton tape for holding wires in place.

I've seen someone add a resistor to a noctua fan to use its silent function without the use of the third wire, not sure how much I can recommend it but it's a neat thing to point out for a quiet solution

After I did this installation about a month ago I thought the same about the flex cable, I didn't like at all how it was going upward (it even touches the shielding, so you have to insulate the two pads on the top otherwise you'll ground everything), still I didn't have any issues and kept the cable. What convinced me the most was that the flex cable should technically avoid any interferences, so no video distorcions or whatsoever. How did you fix that using wires? Maybe magnetic wires should avoid any interferences...? Also great video as always, I too didn't like the idea of having a debug board inside the GC, but I really wanted to spend some money for a GCVideo option which is also practical and good looking and this is the only option available

I’m loving all the new mods that work alongside the existing hardware in the console like the kunai and disc drive. I had to get a gc loader since my drive was dead but still great to see.

Dood, you’re cool! I’m impressed. Am trying to unlock my gcube for multi-region use

Glad to see you back, awesome vid. I love my laserBear bluetooth GC controller mod. it is truly a work of art

Love my Spice Orange Gamecube. Got the exact mods you just did.

I've been getting more into soldering and recently got a Hakko desoldering gun and it makes life so much easier. Much better than the previous one I had. The better quality tools are worth their weight in gold. Thank you for gracing us with another great video Lord Voultar.

Am I hearing "Full Force" at 12:23? That's a serious blast from the past for me. Freaking awesome.

Thankyou for a link to the spsp2 pro 3d print, been so after one those due to my ocd going for that left over game; dust

Gotta say you are the most entertaining modder I follow! And what a vocabulary!! ❤

Glad to have you back.

i always enjoy your sensual soldering

Lord Voultar, because oF YOU i started my journey ind mods. Firsr one was the Picoboot today. No experience, no good tools, but i think its all okay, i not tested yet. Thanks for inspiring me

I'm amazed between this and the 360 RGH3. I never would have thought old consoles would get mod "updates" after a base standard was set.

@voultar can you put up a wiring digram for the pluto, yours is rhe cleanest. I always see ppl pull the wires from the bottom of the board

I appreciate that Macho Nacho leaves the mistakes in his videos (the Chip Quik incident) because it at least shows people what NOT to do. I'm sure it makes you cringe, though 😣

Nice clean work But wanted to see a test run with the games

So apologies if I missed something but the main downside Voultar gives to using ChipQuik or another low melt removal alloy is the cost, I think? I wanted to give another downside that I don't hear people talk about much: Because it stays molten for so long it is *so* easy to get it all over the place, and then you have to worry if you've accidentally contaminated other solder joints on the board with low melt. There've been times that I wicked and resoldered like 2 dozen joints in the general area of where I used ChipQuik because I was so paranoid that they might have gotten contaminated.

Lord Voultar are those muscles? And what's with that PS2 Slim in the background?

25:30 I got an idea for helping to align things here. Put component legs in the 2 ground/mount points, or really just about any 2 holes. Give you something to rest the notches of the cable against.

I desoldered the Digital port with my TS-80 soldering iron and desoldering braid/wick. it's still intact in a box somewhere. a good quick solder ribbon would be nice for the pluto board, but ideally pixelfx would come up with a new modern solution that can handle more resolutions/settings and most importantly HDMI CIC for the settings, instead of IR controller or controller shortcuts. I keep forgetting them lol.

Cheers for the video Voultar! Im only part way through but when desoldering the digital video port do you recommend leaded or unleaded solder?

ive always wonder if you tend the vias then use a hot air station is that a bad idea? (Pluto)

I've been wanting to ask if uv resin would be safe to use on a board lol thanks for answering my unasked question

Hey Voultar. Controller Port 1 on my childhood GC is broken. Anyway to fix it or would I have to swap out all the ports? Cheers

Come for the tips, stay for the rant! I love a good Voultar rant.

I have no issue with the pluto mod. It retains the stock look and works as good as a carby. Also doesn't require a 3rd party remote to change settings, which is another plus for me.

That was an hour of sensual action well spent, lord Voultar delivers his wisdom (and fluids) once more. 🤓

For the castelated holes they choose not to pay the extra fee for castelated holes. Then you see this issue. If you pay the extra fee then the production will plate these spots after milling and not before...

.. removing the through hole port - can you use wick instead of a solder sucker/puller? Agree that you don't need a heat gun though - yuk!

I just want to let you know I share this video with a few people just randomly in my snap stories and stuff. I will say that my particular friend group loves the way you described at each step and even though they don't know anything about soldering? Truly appreciate you. I'm still practicing my soldering skills on an old 90s Nissan instrument panel, but after hitting that Game Gear again

Looks like I got the SD2SP2 just before the better version came out. Still works great with the Picoboot I installed. No more exploiting Melee to get to Swiss now!

would making the hdmi bracket taller and cutting a custom hole for the hdmi make the ribbon cable have less tension?

It looks as though they initially designed the KunaiGC to where you had to remove the chip and the board would be soldered into the main board with the chip being placed on top. Because the measurements are so bad if not.

what desoldering station are you using to get such clean looking work?

Correction: Nintendo hates everything that isn't literal cash money.

I liked this video. thank you

I looked through your links and I can't find that powered screwdriver. Do you mind telling me the make and model?

What kind of screwdriver did you used to unscrew the gamebit screws?

I swear by my GC Loader. Shame they're both pricey and apparently hard to come by in 2023.

I hope Lord Voultar will offer installation services for the Game Cube again on his site. I was one of the novices who botched my Picoboot install and need some serious help getting that repaired and upgraded.

So awesome. Where can I send mine to get all these mods done?

Is there a reason for cutting and joining the fan loom instead of crimping on a new connector? I bought some crimps to do that when replacing fans on vintage graphics cards as it meant I could keep the wiring runs shorter / more like stock and feel it's cleaner than having to cut up and solder.

I have 2 DOL-001s.1 PAL and one NTSC-J. Lucky ass find on the Japanese one. Brand new less than £300 just had been sat in warehouse. Needs new CMOS battery but that's all. Got some others somewhere that family own and also the Panasonic one in mint condition. Found a 1000 block memory card in it yesterday 😂. I wanna mod my PAL one.

At the 16 ish minuet mark you were using one of them "fancy" desoldering pumps but would you still be able to do this with one of them cheap soldering suckers and an iron on the pad?

I hadnt heard of the gc dual, and ended up buying the pluto with the ribbon cable and mounting bracket. Would you recommend selling them off to get the gc dual imstead? I dont have a desoldering station yet, so i would need to buy one, but im reasonably sure i could install the pluto without too much trouble.

52:05 where did you get that bezel? I prefer to use the original SD2PS2 adapter because that way I can put the original GameCube cover back on over it (and can't lose it) but with how seamless this is, especially if you're using a Gameboy player, I may just have to use this bezel and slap the cover somewhere on the back with tape.

Time to update NESRGB guide for AV Famicom, ordered this mod v4.0 and need your nice and clean instruction.

Alt Title "All Teh Mods!!: Game Cube Edition"

Hey just wondering where you would get the soldering iron handle from as they only sell it with the new handle which I don’t like every much.

Can you explain why it is important to introduce new solder to the digital output before removing it?