Moving N64 Cart slot

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:47 am

when i was fitting my fried N64 and screen in its case the Cart slot poped off so i figured it would work on my working N64 and it did, so could i Solder a wire to each pin and put the other end of the wire in the Corresponding Hole?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:11 am

Ya a lot of people that have made the N64p have relocated the cartrage port. Gannon modded his so the cart was paralell to the board. Someone else (cant remember) took a ribbion cable and did that so the port can be mover around freely.

Good luck.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:55 am

Actually, moose jr. made it parallel and I use the ribbon cable.

Any ways, I suggest bending the pins on the n64 cartridge connector flat against the bottom, then soldering wires to it. Then when you solder the wires to the main board, solder them to the points directly above and bellow the holes. That way you can safely remove the expansion port and the cartridge port would still work.

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:28 pm

and i just gave up... *crys in to dead 64!

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:37 pm

ok the Cartrage port would still work without the Expasion?

and solder on top of board and on bottom.

ok great

anyways i just got a NEw concept map drawn up with this info i think the 3rd one would work.

Post by **gannon** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:17 pm

you don't need to solder on the top and bottom of the board. Above and bellow the holes where the cartridge port go there are soldering points where you can solder wires to.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:39 am

ok bend the pins OUT and away from the middle and Solder to the 12 large holes above and below the expasion port Solder and nothing in the holes in the middle of the whole cart slot area?

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:39 am

Here's an image,

The points highlighted in green are the soldering points, while the spots highlighted in red are the holes.
Oh yeah, and moose jr.'s site has a good method for removing the expansion port.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:53 pm

ok solder a wire to each pin ansd solder the other end of the wire to the green area after the Expasion slot is removed.

what if i dont want to remove the expasion slot do i just solder in the RED?

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:20 pm

You can still solder it to the green. This picture is of the top after you remover the cartridge port. The expansion port basically connects the pins from the cartridge port to the green area anyway.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:35 pm

ok now i understand only solder in the green.

1.Bend pins OUT

2.Solder wires to the pins

3. solder the other end to a hole in the GREEN areas(after the EXT port is removed.)

4. put in a Game

5.Play

did i get the steps right?

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:46 pm

I started it that way but it was to hard for me to solder wires onto the board. Once I find some copper pins I'll extend my game port. I got the scsi and it's a lot easier espcially if you're bad at soldering.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:03 pm

i just noticed what about the hole that has no CART PIN HOLE below it do i ignore it or what.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:27 pm

Why not...

1. get perfboard
2. desolder cart slot
3. solder cart slot on perfboard
4. solder wires directly to perfboard/cart slot pins (not through-hole, but directly to pins/board)
5. hotglue pins/wires on perfboard in place
6. solder wires to corisponding N64 cart slot pins (again, not through-hole, but directly to board)
7. hotglue wires down on N64 board

That's what I did with my GBA X-Tender, that can make mounting the cart slot easier, as well (if perfboard has screw mounting holes).

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:28 pm

I basically did all those steps vb_master, but I soldered the wires directly to the n64 cart. port instead of to a perf. board.