Long story short, my uncle ran over my beloved N64 (got that thing brand new when I was 8!) with his pickup truck, lol. It still works, but the case is quite broken.
I happen to have another, bricked N64 with a clean case. Soooo...how feasible would it be to perform a "transplant," replacing the broken case with the non-broken one?
I think it should work they might be different revision boards but I don't think that matters. To warn you there is a TON of screws to remove. I take photos as I go and use little Tupperware bins to help seperate.
They're completely interchangeable, no worries.
yeah, they're no problem to transfer - just unscrew.
Make SURE you have a decent gamebit screwdriver though, i've stripped a couple dirty ass n64s and had do drill em out.
any idea what the problem is with the bricked N64?
Quote from: bartre on 06/01/2013, 01:12 PMyeah, they're no problem to transfer - just unscrew.
Make SURE you have a decent gamebit screwdriver though, i've stripped a couple dirty ass n64s and had do drill em out.
any idea what the problem is with the bricked N64?
Quote from: bartre on 06/01/2013, 01:12 PMyeah, they're no problem to transfer - just unscrew.
Make SURE you have a decent gamebit screwdriver though, i've stripped a couple dirty ass n64s and had do drill em out.
any idea what the problem is with the bricked N64?
Quote from: bartre on 06/01/2013, 01:12 PMyeah, they're no problem to transfer - just unscrew.
Make SURE you have a decent gamebit screwdriver though, i've stripped a couple dirty ass n64s and had do drill em out.
any idea what the problem is with the bricked N64?
I bought it as a gift for my brother, but his dad bought a bootleg memory expansion & idk what happened. It powers on, but that's it; no sound, no video.
hmm.
well once you've used the case, you should send the bad board to me, i'll see if i can't fix it or something.
course, i'll pay for it.
Quote from: VenomMacbeth on 06/01/2013, 03:39 AMLong story short, my uncle ran over my beloved N64 (got that thing brand new when I was 8!) with his pickup truck, lol. It still works, but the case is quite broken.
Geez. When will Nintendo start making more reliable hardware? A truck? That's it?
If it went in the wrong way could have caused some damage. Perhaps the bootleg could go in either direction
I don't think it's a hard fix tho
Quote from: SignOfZeta on 06/01/2013, 03:23 PMQuote from: VenomMacbeth on 06/01/2013, 03:39 AMLong story short, my uncle ran over my beloved N64 (got that thing brand new when I was 8!) with his pickup truck, lol. It still works, but the case is quite broken.
Geez. When will Nintendo start making more reliable hardware? A truck? That's it?
You mean durable console shells. His other N64 is non-working.