Most consoles of the time were struggling to get from 8-bits to 32-bit 64-bits was considered science fiction.Įven so, they did it and on November 24, 1995, at Nintendo’s 7th Annual Shoshinkai trade show, the company unveiled the Nintendo 64 console. And thus, was born the idea of the Nintendo 64.Įven the number, 64, was outrageous. Nonetheless, in 1992 and early 1993, Silicon Graphics (SGI) founder and CEO Jim Clark met with Nintendo CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi to discuss just that-squeezing an SGI graphics system into a console. Therefore, the idea of adapting such state-of-the-art technology to a consumer product like a game console that sold for a few hundred dollars was considered bold, challenging, and crazy. A high-end super high-performance workstation could cost over $100,000. In the ensuing years, it developed leading graphics technologies at the high end. Silicon Graphics had been a leader and highly respected workstation developer that rose to fame and fortune based on its introduction of a VLSI geometry processor in 1981. I figure if I get one and install it, I'll have to do some SMD rework on the main PCB anyway and might as well use that as an excuse to replace the electrolytic capacitors.Breakthrough design, genuinely disruptive I (like many other people, I'm sure) am interested in getting the PixelFX N64Digital whenever that comes out after many years of waiting for UltraHDMI to be even remotely accessible. the SMD components on the N64 main board. Obviously eyeballing big through-hole components (let alone on a dedicated PSU board) is a lot easier to figure out what needs to be replaced v.s. I replaced all of the through-hole electrolytics with 10k hour Nichicon, Panasonic, and United Chemicon caps from Mouser and the console has been rock solid with no issues ever since! Sure enough, a few of the electrolytic caps were way out of spec. I work on audio electronics so I figured I'd start where I usually start on a piece of audio equipment and disassembled the ZEBRA power supply brick. TL DR: I was curious if anyone had general service tips or a list of the capacitors or other components that should be replaced on the main console circuit board when working on an N64īackstory: about 2~ years ago, my childhood N64 from 1998 had been restarting itself or freezing randomly for a while and got progressively worse.
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