The Nitro 64 (geno whirl's N64 portable worklog)

[thewise1]

1/4 will be fine.

[geno whirl]

Alright, I wired up the n64 to the battery last night and it worked! At first, it didn't, but I later realized that one of the wires had come off on the regulator. By the way, anyone got any good ideas for a name?

[nachoz12341]

whirlio 64

[geno whirl]

This might sound stupid but i was thinking about the name being 8². For those of you who dropped out of third grade, that means 8*8 which is 64. Tell me what you thing of it.

[nachoz12341]

i like it but its what you think of it that matters

[geno whirl]

How about Nitro 64. yeah, I like that. It has a nice ring to it. I can also shorten it to N64 so I can be like, "Lol, Nitrogen "

[nachoz12341]

you should just paint flames on the sides

[geno whirl]

That would be awesome! But I think I will just stick with grey or something.

[nachoz12341]

ya i guess keep the first portable simple

[geno whirl]

does anyone know of any tutorial on how to build an external controller jack? I would like to make one like hailrazer's

[neverused]

I believe he just used a 3mm jack, like an audio jack. (One pin each for ground, data, and power.)

[geno whirl]

I don't think it works like that, does it?

[hailrazer]

If the external controller box has just one player port, you need three pins. Ground, data, power. a 3.5mm stereo jack works fine for this. If you have more than one port you will need more data and power pins per port, but you can have just one ground and hook all the ports grounds together.

For my 4 player breakout box I use a 9 pin serial port. 4 data lines, 4 power lines, and 1 common ground.

[geno whirl]

Thanks! that is what i plan on doing.

[geno whirl]

Alright, what kind of bondo or spot filler would you suggest. My requirements are something that is cheap (I am dead broke), and is easy to apply and sand down.