N64 restore (with a few pics)

[ChooChooBot]

Man that N64 board is Nasty. Lucky for me I have a few Retro Game stores near my house that restore and sell old school games and consoles. Good luck on your restoration.

[vxbinaca]

Man that N64 board is Nasty. Lucky for me I have a few Retro Game stores near my house that restore and sell old school games and consoles. Good luck on your restoration.

It's much less nasty now. It's not spik-n-span but it runs carts...I'm not stripping the PCB again just because I might have OCD.

Related news: I found my old copy of pilot wings. rubbed off most the oxidation off the back row of contacts. Might swap PCB's with the baseball game.

[ChooChooBot]

It's much less nasty now. It's not spik-n-span but it runs carts...I'm not stripping the PCB again just because I might have OCD.

Lol a Little OCD is never bad in the modding world. I have opened up my modded Gameboys tons of times because of just one little fuzz on the screen.

[Jamisonia]

I should add that when I first opened the controller it was gag inducing nasty. When I closed it back up it was nice and clean again.

Reminds me of my ColecoVision. When I got it, the housing was full of rust, animal hair, and dead cockroaches.

I just got an SNES with a dead roach in it. It's top cover is beyond salvation but it's cartridge locking sub-assembly is pristine and will be transferred to a franken SNES.

Related question for you though: What do you do when those huge power birck die? are there after market replacements for those that are more efficient? That OEM brick cannot be very efficient or deliver clean power 30 some-dd years later. The AVGN episode always makes me woner just how many of those things left are any good.

It could die, but power brick, if used probably last for a long time. Replacement won't be easy. My understanding is that puts out a few different voltages.