Finally done, after 2 and a half weeks of work, my newest portable N64! I've gotta say, this one is much tougher than my original model, everything is solid in there. It's not quite 100% finished (never will be ), I shorted one of the LED's in the screen after playing Zelda for an hour, so now I have to go in there and replace that stupid thing. Also missing are the shoulder buttons (heh), I purposely left them out until I could find a kind of button that's comfortable and isn't tactile.

I started this thing 2 weeks ago or so. I looked around my room, wanting something to do, and my eyes fell upon the N64 in the corner. Luckily I made it through this whole project without frying a single N64, although an expansion pak was smoked. You live and learn right? Seems like a huge step up from my original model. Here's a pic of the completed portable:



I cut up the original controller shell, epoxied it into place, then used CrackShot wall spackling to shape it so it was flush with the N64. I would've used Bondo, but it was the middle of spring break, I had a tight budget. Bondo wanted me to pay $15 so I said screw that, I'll look in the garage for some putty or something. Sure enough, I tried this out, and so far it works fine. Next time I'll def use bondo, though.

Here's some guts for ya:



Man look at that cart slot relocation, PDS (pretty damn sexy) if you ask me. Also notice the memory card relocation. Mmm, that took a while. The expansion pak was cut down as low as possible, but it still isn't low enough: the screen mobo rests on top of it, lifting the top of the case up about a millimeter. Fine enough for me though, you can't see inside.



A closeup of the front, taken after the guts pic, which is why it's not fully screwed in. You can see where the block of wood I had it resting on scratched through the then-wet paint job and into the CrackShot (at least it didn't scratch the screen). I felt like pulling my hair out, the stupid stuff takes 2 and a half hours to dry. I decided to fix it later.

The paint job is flat black speckled with flat gray, it looks great IMHO, I'm deciding whether or not to paint the bottom as well, I think I will within the next week. Also notice how I molded in part of the screen's casing to give it a flush, professional look.

That's it for now! I'll post an update in a week or so, school has started again and is eating up more time than I want, which it has been known to have a habit of doing.

Anyways, I'm off to eat some cereal (at 11:30 PM).

-Joe

Nice job, Joe! A hell lot better than your last, take that as a compliment. Glad to see you got the screen issues worked out.

that is an extremely nice portable! you are also extremely lucky you didnt brake one.

that is a DAMN nice portable.
I noticed ur Zelda cartridge is grey.
Mine is ultra-rare Gold!!!
anyway nice portable. u got some skills without breaking a single one!

this is awesome , but if you did a better paint job it woulda been so much nicer looking

your bondo work or whatever you used looks so smooth though

still though it is a sweet portable

Very nice!

SS

Its a sweet n64p, but i think it would have looked better before you painted it.

Leave his paint job alone. I like it. It looks somewhat like marble.

You get a MacGyver award for using wall spackler in place of bondo! How well is it holding up?

BTW, bondo sticks only cost $3. What was $15 that you were trying to get? The can stuff?

Good job, glad you got it working! Less than i can say, my N64's dont like to live and keep dieing halfway wired up.

I know, I've already posted once,

Questions:
The dpad, is it comfortable?
Pics of the back?

Why does yours get more attention than mine

SS

Where the hell did you get bondo for $3??? I would've been all over that... Home Depot only has the paint can looking stuff.

The spackling is holding up fine, its only drawback is it takes sooo damn long to dry. 3 - 5 hours before you can sand, 24 hours before its 100% hardened. Everything was epoxied in before applying, so the wall spackling is under very little pressure.


The D-pad is okay, I don't use it constantly, but my wrists would probably get sore after around an hour or so of playing the dpad alone.

I'll get some more pics up tomorrow or Sunday, when I replace the LED in the screen. Also thinking about painting it glossy white? Any suggestions?

Maybe you should fix up ur case just a little tiny bit like cover the radioshack tv and fix up the d-pad.

Kickass! You got it lucky, I fried 4 or 5 . Got any pics of it running?

sweet! i dont like the paint job but whatever also l r and z are going to be hard to make confortable with the placement of the analogue stick and buttons. but great job this is how i hope mine will end up once i start back up on it

Me likey! The paint job isn't what I would want, but hey, if you like it, that's all that matters!

Kickass.