2009-11-01

the MR. Backup Z64 heat modification

Category: Console modifications — Eivind @ 18:22

‘ello people! This is my first post for the ntsc.no domain,  I’ll start up with a easy modification of the z64, which i should have done years ago, but took me the 2 minutes of work tonight :)

The unit,

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FACT: The z64 hardware revision 3.0 have one major fault; over heating! Thanks to the schweino at dextrose, this issue was resolved by a simple and nifty hack of the motherboard. Shorting leg B and E on the transistor Q3, and scratching off some of the surface on the trace, attaching that to the diode you can see in the picture.

The un-modded board,

unmodded

And after the modification is complete,

closeup

You can “easily” see the tiny red wire, but due to my sucky sucky camera, i cant get a close up shot of the board (DAMN THOSE SMALL CAMS!!!!)

And everything boots up nicely!

complete mod on screen

Pretty small modification, but its my first blog post and please contact me for any information about it, if needed!

-pixl0r

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