Nintendo 64 CD64 information? Schematic?

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I still have never seen one of these N64 devices in the flesh!

Also I seem to remember Lik-Sang was taken down by Sony (and the resulting fuss caused as Sony employees were buying stuff from the very place they got all nasty towards)

Lik-Sang were great! I mourn their passing even today.
 
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Ok, I plugged in my NTSC N64, and an NTSC cart into the CD64..

Now I can actually read what's on the screen! (despite the tv displaying it in black and white)

Says "DRAM: 0M"

well that ain't gunna work!
 
Do you anything else you can test the ram in? Old laptop or similar.
 
Hmm... I don't think I have any other computers to test this ram in....

I found another 16meg stick, put that in, does nothing... exactly the same as all the others :p

reseated all the ICs, and the sockets are all basically black.... :/
 
Probably a bad RAM socket then.

Lik-Sang were great! I mourn their passing even today.
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Yeah they were. Great place for buying import stuff.
 
I'll grab some photos of the other sockets, I'm amazed they worked at all, its quite possible this had liquid spilled in the top before, possibly where the little "trap door" on the top is....

Also, one of the SMD ics had three tracks lifted, and "repaired" I've re-repaired them, as the repair was covered in hot glue, and wasn't quite as repaired once I removed it :P

There are also random mods on the board, like a 2200uF capacitor across the 12volt on the HDD power connector...

And two resistors and a capacitor that seem to be connected to the 5volt rail...

As for the ram socket, I have to assume its bad, but I'd also think that cleaning/flexing the memory stick should get it to make contact...
 
Alrighty, so this only has 16meg, not the potential 32...

Does anyone have a 32meg stick of cheap cheap 72pin FPM ram for me? :)

Oh, and the issue... memory socket is rubbish!
 
why cant you feed the drive the 12 volts direct?

without the relay from another source.
 
I run my UK Pal N64 with Svideo and it looks much better than composite.

BTW, PAL N64's can output composite and S-Video, but not RGB, which is really stupid for a region that has RGB scart as standard. Nintendo seemed to live in a world of their own. Apparently early models of N64 could, but the later DAC lost the ability to output RGB. Mad as it would be the perfect connection these days.

So stuck with S-Video it seems.

BTW, AFAIK SNES, N64 and GCN composite and S-Video cables are the same. In Europe connecting a SCART cable will only give you composite.
 
I'm considering swapping the lid off this N64 onto my PAL unit, so it has an s-video socket and rcas, then modifying the NTSC console to have an RGB socket instead ;)

I don't know why I decided to add svideo to the NTSC console... I knew they supported rgb out, while the PAL consoles don't.... :P ah well!
 
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