n64 crashing?

sbf · Post by **sbf** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:51 am

Hi, my Ebay n64 has crashed recently quite a few times when playing 007 Goldeneye James Bond,

it has a 3rd party 1mb expansion pack,
could this be the problem? the game played without crashing on my other n64 that I have.

Thanks.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:56 am

are the cartridge contacts clean? does it work with a jumper (not expansion) pack?

sbf · Post by **sbf** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:21 pm

When I got in from work I tried it with the jumper pak and it hasn't crashed at all yet!

The funny thing was, with the 3rd party expansion pak, if I wobbled the 007 game slightly during gameplay, it would freeze, but only on bond, now I can wobble it a lot, and it won't freeze!

Must be the pak.

Is the genuine nintendo expansion pak prone to casuing crashes? or is it this cheap s**t (poo)?

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:36 pm

the official one's good. mine never crashes

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:48 pm

check for overheating?

MikeJones · Post by **MikeJones** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:20 pm

when you say crashing, do you mean the game spontaneously resets? i have the same problem with my N64, but it may be because my 3.6v pack keeps dying.

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:44 pm

if the 3.6v battery pack keeps diing before the 7.2v battery pack, put 2 sets of 3 AAs in parrallel. BTW, love the pic in your sig, but could you please shrink it?

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:57 pm

Yes, you have lots of room to crop it.

MikeJones · Post by **MikeJones** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:44 am

oops. sorry about the size, is that better? yeah i thought it was good too, i got the idea from my preacher's t-shirt

. and about my 3.6 dying b4 my 9.6, i actually found out that i had been undercharging them. when you add up the current of the 3 Ni-MH AA's, you get 5.4 amps. it turns out that my crappy charger's charge time of 13 hours only charged them to about 2.2 amps. so, using a formula that came with the charger, i found out that i have to charge these mother(fudge)rs for 36 hours to get 3 hours off them.

and daguuy what do you mean by wiring 2 sets of 3 AA's in paralell? ive never done something like that.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:52 am

http://www.doomportables.tk
look under systems then batteries

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:30 pm

Code: Select all

    | AA | AA | AA |
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    | AA | AA | AA |

MikeJones · Post by **MikeJones** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:04 pm

Ahhh... interesting, the concept of parallel is... thanks a lot guys.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:34 pm

good luck!!