So while waiting for the FPGA's to arrive I've mostly been thinking about making a second circuit board to house the PIF's. Made a shopping list for tomorrow and everything :-) But 5 minutes ago I opened up a 64 for the first time to look at the PIF's, and my god are they tiny... Was gonna buy what ...

I don't have the FPC fabbed yet for the connection. So I'm hand wiring the first proto:

So since I'm not that into this scene yet I need a translation to layman lingo What is the difference in connection on the finished product?

Edit: Forgot to mention that that is one sexy image

Same here! If I mess up a 64 I'll just use another one. Would have been cool if the install could have been more similar to the fpga-HDMI mod on the Amiga, there you just push the PCB in place over the video chip, but that would have been impossible on the N64.

Marshall, let us solder

So I figure that I should be able to automate the switching between chips, if I remember correctly: If leg 7 of the PAL-chip doesn't give any signal after X time, then reset and switch to NTSC. Might be totally of though... FPGA:s shipped today from china. Waiting for a PAL unit to turn up at a reas...

Both would work. Both designs seem to be allright, they actually use decoupling caps for the FPGA. My board from China does not have a single one for the FPGA lol. I would go with the cheapest. I could help you out with the code for this. I might want to do this mod as well. I mainly bought a flash...

I would probably use a CMOS switching chip instead of relays. You can get one for $2 that muxes up to 8 signals at once. But yes, to have both region support you would need a NTSC and PAL PIF installed and switchable. Also, the clocking is different on PAL units than the rest. While all consoles us...

So while thinking about this I hade another thought. Is it possible to emulate the N64-hardware on an FPGA? Been following Brians endeavors of creating a HDMI-NES using FPGA. I know the N64 is way more complicated, but please indulge me and my stupid question

Thanks for the reply :-) I'll go back to the drawing board and have look at an FPGA solution! The difference in crystals has some impact on sound and game play etc, but the games should run anyway was my understanding. Yeah the project should be fun and I'm probably gonna learn a bit about new areas...

Hi, Hope this is ok to post here! Figured that there will be alot of us N64-nerds here and that this would be the perfect place to post this question. So I'll be region nodding my PAL or NTSC-jap N64. Will be unsoldering both region chips. Will then solder them both to a new pcb. Will use a flip swi...

The board looks awesome! Money and soldering iron is ready, just have to get my region mod done!