N64 motherboard11/26/2022 Here’s where I placed the shoulder buttons. Rubber fender washers (this disc-shaped things from the hardware store) were placed above the heatsinks so the back of the PSone screen would press against them and hold them down onto the chips. Folded together there’s actually a good deal of empty space in the front of the unit – this was required for the jumper pak and the heat sinks on the chips. It has the usual PSone 5″ screen, stereo speakers (not the original PSone screen speaker however) and the tact switch button boards. Here’s the front (parts side) of the N64 motherboard, mounted on the match plate with the stuff installed:Īs with most of my portables there’s a front and rear half to the unit. The pack was really a bunch of Ni-MH “C” sized cells, but that allowed me to chop it up and move them around in the case as I saw fit. Here’s the batteries packed into the rear half of the unit, which is basically all batteries and the cartridge. I figured the thing cost me $40 so I should use it for SOMETHING! I then designed the portable using trusty old AI (the program, not the Steven Spielberg movie) I had a battery pack laying around that was first intended for the DreamcastAway, then the PS2p, then… the closet. I then wired an extension plug for the analog stick (left thing with electric tape) After tracing which buttons went to which pins on the black IC (center of board piece) I chopped most of the board off and did a little rewiring (mostly ground/VCC) to make it work again. This is (what’s left) of an N64 controller. Little did I know that this would be the EASIEST part of wiring the N64 portable! I then made some aluminum brackets and mounted the cartridge slot to the bottom of the motherboard as shown below.
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