N64 RGB Amplification

[sj33]

I am wanting to perform the N64 RGB Amplification mod to my RGB'ed N64, the one detailed on this page.

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/nintendo/n64rgbbooster.htm

As you can see, the page is down! You basically join 2 points on the mainboard. Can someone tell me what to do?

[Hammie]

can't find any other site that details it, if you use this guide though http://www.gamesx.com/rgbadd/n64rgb.htm for the rgb mod but lift the actual chip pins from the board before soldering the wires to them, you will get a clean, bright rgb image (the rgb amplification mod tends to give a noisy picture)

[sj33]

Thanks, I'm not skilled enough to do that one though.

I bought the machine pre-moddified, and while I have sucky soldering skills, they're good enough to do the RGB amplification.

[randombs]

rats! i tried the wayback machine but it didn't show the pics (showed the text, though). shame, that - wayback machine was my saviour when i needed to access Tony's Saturn Page

[Commander Marklar]

Archive link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041107110755/http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/nintendo/n64rgbbooster.htm

No pics though.

[sj33]

Thanks. That ones a little more complex than the one I'm trying to perform though, which is just a simple solder bridge on the mainboard.

[mmmonkey]

I had to take the site down as it was costing too much in traffic

Here's the pic you want, info came from Saur in the first instance.

Pete

[sj33]

Ah excellent mate I'll give that a go! I just join up the 2 red marks with a solder bridge?

[mmmonkey]

Yep. Sorry, i forgot to say - join the 2 red dots. It's located quite close to the AV socket.

Pete

[sj33]

Seems the guy did the Amplification mod already!

Wondering why it looked so crap, I dug out an old 3rd party GC Scart and shorted the capacitors to make it N64-friendly and it looked much better! Still a bit meh though... probably a combination of my LCD TV not liking the resolution, coupled with the N64 constantly looking like a foggy mess to begin with.

Fired up some Perfect Dark... man was the game always this unplayable in Hi-Res mode?! It halfs the framerate! Much better turned off, and only lookd marginally different.

I might pick up an official Ninty GC Scart and short the capacitors on that for use on N64 - I assume the official Nintendo cable works fine for this?

[randombs]

i dl'd a video of perfect dark running on an overclocked n64 @ 180mhz in hi-res and it was around 30fps. naturally there's the possibility of the whole thing being fake...

problem is it seems the older n64's are rgb-moddable but not overclockable, and the newer ones are the opposite (or the other way round - i can't remember!)

i'd love to try it on mine if it was possible...