/v/ - Video Games

Can anyone give me a good tutorial on exchanging a DC's Disc Drive lense or were to get spare disc drives?

>>15125906

determine your model and buy one on ebay. there are no more being manufactured so consider looking into a OAFA solution.

>>15125916

Horrendous and could be anchored better. clean up the damn flux. at least the pin on the lock-out appears to have just been de-soldered and lifted, as opposed to removed from the chip.

>>15125917

That's a shame. I heard the lense is some common model you could easily build into one. Other than the drive, the DC still works.

>>15125916

Do this method to get better solder joints

>>15125933

I've seen people install CD lasers into the dreamcast which just allows it to read copied games but the GD rom laser is one of a kind I believe.

>>15125956

lol, dreamcast can play copies out of the box.

>>15125993

until the laser fails then it cant play anything, If you're just playing copies its not a bad idea to install a CD laser.

>>15126005

I heard about some guys making steel sticks a year or so ago but it looks like they still haven't begun production yet. Shame because they seemed to be the best option for replacement sticks when I heard their pitch.

http://steelsticks64.com/

>>15126062

But what's the price gonna be? You can make an adequate analog stick that functions like a modern one, but the problem is the people making them make them as cheap as possible.

>>15126005

It would be fairly simple to make a replacement out of plastic / metal using a mill and a lathe by the looks of it but I'm wondering if you make a replacement thats stronger than the other parts will they wear out instead? And if so then replacing the stick every now and then seems like a much better solution than replacing other parts.

>>15126082

Well his store has some kind of "early adopter" model fully assembled for $125. I assume it's because he's basically selling prototypes he handmade but they're sold out, there's a waiting list and this website has been untouched in a year.

>>15126005

N64 controllers dying are the main reason I haven't taken my N64 out of storage, are you telling me, nearly 20 years after-the-fact there hasn't been a decent solution to the analog dying out and sticking to one side?

>>15126100

>$125

What the hell? I see controllers being sold for like 10-30 online so is he seriously charging 90 for the stick?

>>15126102

There's the retro fighters controller that's out this month but I personally wouldn't trust it or advocate it until I put it through the paces myself. Like I said, if it just uses components that aren't pure garbage it could be perfectly fine.

>>15126119

Read the rest of the post, stuff like that always costs more than the final product. I think the final product shouldn't cost more than $20-30.

>>15126134

>smash 64 players

>not autistic speedrunners

>>15126141

Those too, I'm just basing the smash thing off of the fact that I met them at Smashcon and they sell smash emblem start buttons on their store.

>>15126134

No hes apparently selling the whole module. That does explain a bit since with proper equipment making just the stick would cost like $0.20 and take maybe 5 minutes. The whole module is a whole other thing not to mention the other autistic stuff.

>A calibration sheet showing mapping/angles/deadzone of your particular stick as measured during assembly

Last time I heard someone go this far was during the second world war when they made replacement barrels for weapons. Doing the same with a controller stick is impressive autism.

I was cleaning out a PS2 I bought and I think I ripped the cable for the DVD disc reader since PS2 games no longer read. It still works for PS1 games though. Is there an easy fix for this?

I drilled holes on the bottom of a Phat PS3.

It did nothing, it still heats up to 80°C after 10 seconds of gameplay.

>>15126324

>>15126962

Ah, skip it, forgot I could reverse image search.

>>15126577

>PS3

There's your problem.

>>15126260

Is toilet paper safe for those kind of things?

>>15126577

Have you checked if thermal paste or pads are properly placed?

>>15126962

The clones aren't perfect as they won't be able to accept firmware updates and the guy behind GDEMU has decided to lock down future revisions of the board to prevent this from happening again. They're still a better option than changing the lens though.

I'm waiting for the iceGDROM project to come to fruition instead of buying into these boards early on. I find the menus and options lacking.

>>15127065

When it comes to thermal paste you should place a grain of rice amount or less even on a large Cell chip. You're probably insulating it instead of helping bridge the tiny gap to help heat transfer more effectively. And drilling holes willy nilly isn't going to help improve internal air flow it may make it worse. To take the GDEMU as an example they had to design a 3d print for it to replace the original GDROM drive to maintain the internal geometry so it wouldn't overheat the Dreamcast. You can also oil the fan with some light machining oil used for sewing machines, it is over a decade old by now.

>>15127083

'no'.

>>15127169

I'm totally with you on that. These ODE devices are fantastic but the production of them has been pathetic. I'm a big Saturn guy, and I'd love to get a Rhea but for some reason the guy only gets in like 200 or so a year. I was actually talking with Jason from Gametech about his new N64 RGB board, I commented that the FPGA he's using is surprisingly cheap ($12 on mouser, the next one up being $140), I imagine he's buying in enough bulk to get a decent discount, the other hardware is small components so bulk enough for a single board to be like a dollar, and one more small IC and a few connectors. Total cost for parts, maybe $15? $20 or $25? He's asking for over $100 for it. Not even the kind of mod I care for, I just think it could be handled better.

>>15127215

I appreciate it when people who sell (admittedly less complicated) mod projects offer the unassembled kit for a decent discount for people who have the ability to solder better than a one-armed monkey with parkinson's disease, but I'd sure hate to have to deal with SMD soldering with a bunch of surface mount chips with legs the breadth of the thickness of a shadow.

>>15127309

Repairing DS game cards was pretty tough. Some of those SMD caps are like the size of a poppy seed. Feels like you could swallow one by breathing it in.

That said, usually mod chips use more manageable components and I don't find it hard to work with SMD caps. Just having the right tools is necessary before you begin to work on these things.

For some reason, my SNES won't play a copy of Starfox I just bought. It goes to a black screen, but never beyond that. For reference, the simpler games made earlier in its lifespan always boot without issue, while the more complex RPGs that came later have similar troubles, but eventually start proper. Are the cartridge connectors on the console dirty?

>>15127379

You should check both.

>>15127379

just shine a light into the cartridge and take a look. It may be some issues with the cartridge contacts for the expansion hardware. Cleaning either isn't very hard.

Unlikely, and you may have seen it already, but your SNES may be among the earlier models that are experiencing component failure. This usually effects things like layers going missing from rendering or games not booting at all, so this is probably not the case if some things are playing normally.

>>15127379

The typical fix-all is to clean the contacts with Hoppes No. 9 gun cleaning solvent, or some other non-abrasive solvent that's good at taking oxidation and grime off of metal without also devouring the metal and plastic, and if that doesn't sort it, take an old gift card or similar plastic card, wrap it with a paper towel or thin cloth, dab the edge with that solvent, or alcohol, and then insert it into the cartridge slot and remove it, repeatedly, to lightly scrub the contacts.

If THAT fails, the next step is to re-flow the solder for each of the components on the board, as crap solder can crack and form fissures that break electrical connectivity and cause malfunction.

Look up the phrase "open cart surgery" on youtube. John Riggs restores carts that seem to be dead all the time using some of these methods, and others, and he does not profess to be any sort of EE.

>>15126260

>E3 flasher

>fat model

Why? All fat models can be softmodded now, 3.55 is no longer the threshold.

>>15126324

>cheap GDEMU clones

Where? The official one is really fucking expensive. I know there's some russian dude that does an HDD version of it but its also rather expensive.

>>15127215

>Rhea

Isn't there a usb option coming soon? It has to be cheaper than a Rhea.

>>15127590

>Where? The official one is really fucking expensive. I know there's some russian dude that does an HDD version of it but its also rather expensive.

https://www.yoycart.com/Product/569409397036/

>>15127021

it is safe for a short time, i did this on 2 different ps3 this way and noticed that the paper towels are getting hot after 10 minutes, but i wasn't worried about while downgrading it because i was still able to put my finger on it. ofcourse you shouldn't play with it like this or run it at all for a longer time

>>15127590

because back then we still had to downgrade to 3.55 in order to install a cfw, and after i found out that this e3 flasher was a fake one, i sold it and did the same thing with a teensy++ 2.0 (but now alot cheaper because that teensy cost way less than that e3 flasher)

>>15127661

Thanks anon, not that much cheaper than a GDEMU but still. Do you happen to know the compatibility of this thing?

>>15129276

Alas, I know jack shit about the reliability and compatibility of bootleg versions of the device I have yet to be able to buy.

Question: is it possible to clone the hard drive of an xbox HUEG before softmodding it? I want to build in a hard drive with a new drive, but I would like to keep the original drive original.

Second: what is the best FTP for a softmodded ps2?

>>15129445

Are you talking about the OG Xbox, you can back up the save data. There's not really a reason to clone the entire drive

Voultar just uploaded a new video showing how to add CSync to a Ps1. Very fine pitch stuff there, but really cool if you don't wanna use Luma for Sync.

>>15129445

Yes, you can clone an original xbox HDD. It would require you to hotswap its IDE connector to a PC with IDE after it has been unlocked by the Xbox. I don't know why you'd want to clone it, as softmods can be reverted with no traces.

>>15129445

>what is the best FTP for a softmodded ps2?

none, unfortunately. All methods are very poor and the best way to add games is just transfer directly to the hard drive.

How often should I replace the thermal paste in my PS3 Slim and 360 Slim? Also does anyone make backups of their HDDs on these consoles? I plan on making a backup with dd unless someone has a better way

>>15127169

>>15127215

The people who make these devices can't be blamed for being poor businessmen that don't crank out a garbage product as fast as possible to fill an immediate demand.

>>15129276

Asides for D2 because of disc swapping I haven't heard of any issues. Some game rips don't work with it but it's not the GDEMU's fault as the games were repackaged in order to be burned on a disc.

>>15127661

It's $30 cheaper on taobao.com but I still wouldn't get one. A few years from now there will be several boards that are much better and cheaper. It's just the best option at the moment.

>>15127198

If it's more holes for air intake it should be fine. I'd get a laptop cooler board or raise the feet underneath the console if you're still having issues.

>>15129649

>How often should I replace the thermal paste in my PS3 Slim and 360 Slim?

Depends on the paste, some paste will decline after a year some will hold over 5 without any difference.

Noctua recommends every 3 year but their paste (NT-H1) can hold far longer without noticeable impact, right now my Phenom 2 build still has the same application as 9 years ago and it doesn't heat up noticeably more than it did.

Good paste holds well from what I've heard people say.

>>15129614

Speaking of the Xbox, do you have any idea how to change the menu or the games in a modchipped xbox with games in the hard drive? I finally got around to fixing one I got not working, but the DVD drive doesnt work and I have no idea how to go about it.

>>15129816

I can vouch for thermal grizzly conductonaut, i dont know about their claims of it lasting but it does cool a bit better and is relatively cheap.

>>15129701

> raise the feet underneath the console

I just put it on it's side

>>15129885

tsop mod it (very easy) and drop in another DVD drive, older mod chips are sort of limiting in a way, you must flash the bios with a dvd or cd and install a new dash through that.

>>15129978

Dont you need a working DVD drive to do that mod?

I looked at the modchip and it says Super Aladdin Live. Cant I just take the hard drive and plug it into my computer and change shit in it that way? Most of the resources on this are years old and full of dead links so I'm having a hard time finding answers.

>>15129614

> softmods can be reverted with no traces.

That simplifies things. Thanks!

>>15130070

You can try using xbemaker to make a shortcut to a new dash you'd like to use and replace the existing one. This can be done through FTP. Careful with how you do it because it's very possible to brick your system by managing it poorly.

>>15127198

I have the same issue. I replaced the thermal compound and still get 75C after 20 minutes. Mine is a slim. The fans are quieter for a while, but then pick up to 40% in order to keep it around 68C to 73C or so.

>>15130660

So we're fucked, right?

>>15130660

how about watercooling?

>>15133402

AFAIK, no, and you would need specifically made equipment to remove the CPU from the MB and to reball the cpu.

It's best to just not fuck around with that shit.

Just clean the thermal paste and apply new paste.

>>15133440

I'd guess that either the person putting the paste on the ps3 when being assembled was a retard or, the guy that owns it cleaned the paste and put a a retarded amount of new paste on it and it just went all over the place when squished.

>>15133454

De-lidding isn't related to reballing/mounting at all, it's a technique primarily used to replace the thermal paste behind the IHS as the quality and application is usually terrible.

Can net some pretty impressive thermal results.

>>15133479

>De-lidding isn't related to reballing/mounting at all

Never said it was. You'd have to desolder the cpu from the ps3 to properly de-lid it.

>>15133498

What makes you think that? All you need to do is heat up the epoxy enough to remove the IHS.

>>15133498

It's harder and riskier but you still can, delid kit are only a convenience not a requirement.

>>15129885

>I can vouch for thermal grizzly conductonaut

You sure you don't mean Kryonaut?

Because Conductonaut is their liquid metal stuff and while way more effective at cooling it's a much more delicate process to apply and that needs to be replaced every year.

>>15133555

What do you guys think of Artic 5? It's the one I used and didn't seem to work well. It's a lot less dense too.

>>15133601

It used to be the top contender but that was over 10 years ago, nowadays most good paste beats it by several C° while also being non conductive.

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut is the best nowadays in pure performance and it's particularly hard to apply

Tuniq TX4 is also pretty good from what I've hear

Noctua NT-H1 if you like something less fluid but not unreasonably so

Céramique 2 if you're a noob and want something cheap that you can't possibly fuck up without it also being crap at it's job.

>>15133665

>and it's particularly hard to apply

*not

>>15133402

ho ho hold the fuck up nigger

so instead of a singular pea it'd make more sense to put down thermal p on each corner and center of the gpu? I know that'd probably result in 8 air bubbles, but how the hell are you supposed to spread it around just right, if it's mathematically designed to be unfriendly to a circular spread?

>>15134623

You take a painting knife and you apply a fine layer all over the IHS yourself then.

>>15133454

>you would need specifically made equipment to remove the CPU

git gud

>>15134831

I've seen tests on youtube that show that it really doesn't matter how you spread it, there was barely a degree of difference between adding a single pea, spreading it thin or dropping all the mayonnaise there.

Obviously the less you apply the better it is for your pocket.

>>15134831

>All of the heat is generated in the middle

Well fuck me wish I knew that 5 years ago. Drying up of the paste seems like a non issue since who doesnt upgrade their pc once during a decade?

>>15134831

> hard to get nowadays

https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-Graphite-Thermal-Pad/dp/B07CKVW18G

>>15133498

>You'd have to desolder the cpu from the ps3 to properly de-lid it.

Nope.

>>15134739

Reballing a chip to a console would require special tools to align the balls in place before soldering. What you posted is a chip that already has the solder balls applied to a chip, but you would not have this luxury. You have to take off all the old solder from the board and the chip, and then apply new balls, which needs a tool unless you want to apply dozens of them by hand very carefully.

>>15135016

>needs a tool unless you want to apply dozens of them by hand very carefully.

Don't you see how you contradict yourself?

>>15134965

I forgot to mention the constant cooling and warming of metal causes very slight deformation that acts like a pump on the thermal paste in between. A thermal pad is set it and forget it.

>>15135012

It was out of stock for awhile so I'm glad to see it available again. Until Panasonic's graphite sheets with high Z-axis conductivity hits the market these pads are the best option for cooling.

>>15135137

The reballing tool lets you quickly and easily apply the balls into the correct position on the chip. You put in the chip, dump in the balls, shake them around a bit until they all fall into the holes, then blast it with the heat gun. This is 1000x faster than trying to individually place dozens if not hundreds of them by hand without knocking them around by mistake and generally fucking up. You can't get a PS3 CPU or GPU with solder balls already applied, like in that video you posted. You HAVE to do it youself.

Try Googleing "PS3 Reball Kit," instead of posting your retardation everywhere.

>>15136265

It might be faster with the tool, that doesn't make the tool necessary, you can do the same shit putting small blobs of solder on the underside of the chip, put the chip on it's place and then apply the heatgun.

You don't even need to use the balls, you can apply regular leaded solder carefully and get fixed "balls" that aren't going to move even if you throw the chip out the fucking window of a 7th floor.

You're like a fucking monkey, you learn one way of doing things and believe that's the only way of doing things.

How to make my 3ds have bluetooth?

>>15136585

A monkey might spend all week trying to apply 0.5mm size blobs of solder by hand to a shitload of contacts under a CPU, but the intelligence of man allowed us to evolve and build tools to solve our problems faster and more efficiently. Get a reball kit, finish the job in minutes, not days.

>>15137189

>days

Git

Gud

>>15142507

The argument begun with the possibility of doing it without specialized tools, which I demonstrated, don't move the goalpost to it's going to take a lot of time.

>>15142550

>The argument begun with the possibility of doing it without specialized tools

>"which needs a tool unless you want to apply dozens of them by hand very carefully."

The argument was always about it being a retarded waste of time to do it without tools.

>>15142572

>you would need specifically made equipment to remove the CPU

I don't see anything about it being a waste of time.

>>15142578

You're gonna tell me you started that argument because you' can't read IDs?

>>15142589

You've already been caught on your lies.

Stop trying to deflect.

>>>/v/15142597

>Stop trying to deflect.

He says while deflecting

>>15142606

deflecting what?

I said that you can remove and reball a BGA.

You said it takes a lot of time.

I'm telling you that's irrelevant.

>>>/v/15142621

You disagreed with two different posters

And when pointed out that arguments didn't make sense because of it you started trying to push the idea that everyone disagreeing with you is the same poster.

>>15142634

>you started trying to push the idea that everyone disagreeing with you is the same poster.

Take your pills.

You jumped in the middle of an argument trying to be right while moving the goalpost in the same direction as the previous retard did.

>>>/v/15142642

>Take your pills.

>"You've already been caught on your lies".

See, you can't even remember stuff you said 15 minutes ago.

>You jumped in the middle of an argument trying to be right while moving the goalpost in the same direction as the previous retard did.

And you tried to be right by posting way after the fact trying to win an argument with two different posters you're conflating as one to try and make it seems like there's a contradiction.

>>15142678

>lie about the argument in question

>get presented the beginning on the argument

>lol he thinks I'm that poster

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>>>/v/15142686

>>lie about the argument in question

>>get presented the beginning on the argument

Here anon

>>15133454

The poster you disagreed with originally, which indeed states that you need tools period and never actually replied to you

>>15135016

>>15136265

>>15137189

The other poster you argued with later on, which only claimed that you needed tools if you didn't want to waste your time and never once agreed with the other poster.

So tell me again, who's lying here?

>>lol he thinks I'm that poster

Again why would you have claimed that I was caught on my lies if you didn't think I was either of the other two posters?

>>15142722

>Reballing a chip to a console would require special tools to align the balls in place before soldering

We're back to the same shit retard.

>>15142730

>Reballing a chip to a console would require special tools to align the balls in place before soldering. What you posted is a chip that already has the solder balls applied to a chip, but you would not have this luxury. You have to take off all the old solder from the board and the chip, and then apply new balls, which needs a tool unless you want to apply dozens of them by hand very carefully.

We're only back at the beginning if we have tunnel vision like you anon.

>>15142737

let me recap it for your jellyfish brain again:

Someone says that you need special tools to remove and reinstall a BGA.

I said that It can be done without special tools

Some other guy says that you need special tools to reinstall them.

I show that it can be reinstalled without special tools.

Then he starts with irrelevant tangents.

After some time you jump in bringing the same irrelevant tangent.

The question is and has always been, can you remove and reinstall a BGA?

and the answer is yes.

>MFW Overclocked N64 with patches N64 roms so they run without the anti aliasing filter

It's like a completely new console now. slowdown in star fox 64 is fucking GONE now.

>>15142774

Very nice, can you tell me more? How hot does it get and did you look into additional cooling? How do other games like Goldeneye run? Running the system through RGB?

>>15142758

>Some other guy says that you need special tools to reinstall them.

>"which needs a tool unless you want to apply dozens of them by hand very carefully."

Gotta work on your reading skills anon.

>I show that it can be reinstalled without special tools.

With a video from a guy that uses a stencil guide from a reball kit, the one actual special tool that's useful for reballing.

>The question is and has always been, can you remove and reinstall a BGA?

The original question was whether you needed to remove the chips to delid them, and I doubt the possibility of removing them was ever in question it was more the need for special tools to do it.

>>15142801

I already told that retard that he was contradicting himself on that post, nigger.

And the first thing I said is that no, you don't need tools.

You're still trying to step around that.

I don't give a fuck if it's a waste of time, hobbies are a waste of time.

>>15142845

>I already told that retard that he was contradicting himself on that post, nigger.

I'm sure that contradiction was real in your head.

>I don't give a fuck if it's a waste of time

Yeah I gathered that, you absolutely do not value your time.

>>15142785

It's got an old RGB mod on it. I think some of the newer mods integrate the anti aliasing into the mod, but I just ran a patched to strip toe anti aliasing from the roms & loaded those as a separate romset in my flash card's rom folder. Goldeneye with the overclock is like a completely different game. I have a switch to toggle between the two clock speeds. Doesn't SEEM to overheat, but I have two N64s in case the overclock kills this one. No pictures of it unfortunately.