Old Nintendo64?

Hi,



Someone knows if this Nintendo64 is different from others?


http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/568/1000244qt3.jpg


Thanks

ray:

 

it has got the nus-vdc chip, so you can rgb-mod it, if you want.

 

except what alphagamer already said it looks pretty normal ^^

why are you asking if i may ask?

 

Do you have this one? Wow! If so, great catch! It comes straight from SGI i suppose. But it looks just like a normal N64.

 

Hi again


http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/8928/1000243ek2.jpg

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9163/1000246ar3.jpg


http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/328/1000596dh6.jpg

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6264/1000597fj4.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2516/1000598pn4.jpg


:nod:

 

the case RAWKS!

 

The Making of Project Reality :


http://steveshepard.com/blog/page/2/


[SIZE=+1]Steve [/SIZE]
Steve was the lead graphics software guy for Project Reality. He's written graphics software for Cray supercomputers, football stadium scoreboards, and laser printers. That proved to be an ideal background for this job. He architected the graphics microcode and wrote lots of it. He also contributed to the project in many other important ways, such as designing the first T-shirt and bitching when the tree didn't build.

"It was very satisfying to write lots of software in a language I made up, using an assembler I wrote, debugged on a simulator I wrote. Unfortunately, that made it *really* hard to blame the tools when things didn't work."

[SIZE=+1]Project Reality Team[/SIZE]
​

Gudrun
Steve
Bob
Chip
Mike
Scott
Chia-Chi
Howard
Jack
Tony
Jeff
Gulbin
Jim
Brian
Dan
Stuart
Maggie
Phil
John
Ken
Richard
Kevin
Prasad
Rob
Christopher
Ron
Nathan
John
Sudhakar
Bob
Steve
Byron
Jeff
Ashok
Stephen
Tim
James
​

 

This is definitely a showcase console. Time to dig the old Shows about n64's pictures out guys!

 

Does it not need heatsinks?

 

Hm. I was quite surprised by that too. Probably they fell off or have been taken off?

 

the N64 survives ten minutes without heatsinks while playing a game

 

Gilgamesh is in France, which is SECAM. I don't know if they RGB mod, I know NTSC N64's can have RGB quite easily, and PAL can if they are Australian but not UK.

Cooling the processors - you can either use heatsinks and a fan; or keep the original block heatsinks and most of the original metal plate they connected to; both methods work fine.

 

One interesting thing is that its an NUS-CPU-01 (Printed behind the cartridge slot), meaning its the first revision - unless there was a NUS-CPU-00?

Im not even sure the 01 was sold at retail In the US the N64 seems to have launched with the NUS-CPU-03 motherboard, and I have only seen one Japanese N64 that had an NUS-CPU-02 motherboard (so it is available but quite rare) I have never seen an NUS-CPU-01 at retail though - unless anybody knows differently?

Still, it does looks the same as a normal N64 board - any chance of some clearer pictures of the front and back of the motherboard though?

 

this console is showcase only. The thing would give out smoke if one was to boot it, considering there are no heat-sinks installed on any of the 3 chips (RCP, R4300i, RDRAM)

 

dont think it would be a problem to actually try with heat sinks from another console, would it?

 

The odd thing is its setup like it was designed to be turned on and used at a show - it has the power supply plugged in and slots cut in the perspex to allow the insertion of the Jumper Pak and a Cartridge. (You can see the Jumper Pak on the bottom of the perspex case)

However theres no way it could be turned on 'as-is' (without any heatsinks)

Im guessing if it ever was turned on there would have had to be some sort of cooling system from for the perspex case, such as some case fans? Or something blowing cold air into the case? I wonder if theres any holes in the perspex to allows this.

 

I just noticed that the glass is cut where the cartridge port is located. Also, there is an aluminum looking trim around the motherboard that isnt found on the retail model.

maybe the chips have a lower frequency? they seem to carry hand-written tags and may not be final production chips

 

The Aluminium trim is on all the N64 motherboards ive ever seen, unless you mean something else?

 

Hm. Am I wrong or did RCP Ver 1.0 had a lower frequence.

 

the final chips were maxed out frequency-wise. The earlier chips did have lower frequencies.