My N64 has been having issues working, and I found out the issue was simply that the cartridge port was loose. My attempts to bend the pins back on the memorycard ports of my N64 controllers ended in disaster, so I don't want to risk screwing up my N64's cartridge port in the same way. I was relieved at first to find out that the port is not soldered into the N64 and can be removed fairly easily... until I attempted to find a replacement, and was able to find none. Many of the results returned NES cartridge ports, or a port designed to fit N64 carts but clearly not designed to fit in a real N64 itself. Does anybody make replacement cartridge ports for the N64?
think this will work: http://s.aliexpress.com/MvAf6Zfa?fromSns=Meddelanden but u might have to remove the shiealding from the original and transfer it.
Yes, that's the one I see a lot, but I don't think it's intended as a replacement for the N64 itself, just a cartridge slot that will fit a N64 cartridge for other electronics. I haven't looked into if I can remove the rest of the shielding off a N64 cart slot or if it's fixed in place, but the pins are definitely a different shape and thickness than that one, I worry it either won't work or cause damage if I tried to use it in my N64. That's what I thought at first too, it was hard to get information and some claimed it was and others that it was not, but I was finally able to find a repair video where someone removed the cartridge slot and it's clearly not soldered: EDIT: Hmm, seems this forum stripped out the time bookmark from the URL, it's at the 4:16 min mark. Though the expansion port for the N64DD that is directly below it and looks similar appears to be soldered, but I am not sure on that. I don't need to mess with that port anyway.
