I ve come accross some texts claiming it, but has anyone here attempted it? you can read about it here NOTE: earlier n64 boards aren't as tollerant to this kind of modification as the later ones found in "transparent" packs apparently. here you can also see some info about MegaDrive overclocking.
As it says in the link... "if the game already ran at a full frame rate, overclocking won't make any difference. Because the developers intended their N64 games to run only on the N64, most games already had sufficient optimizations to produce good frame rates. Only particularly complicated 3D games such as Perfect Dark that sometimes chug a little or a lot, even when using the extra RAM in the N64 expansion packs, will see much effect." In other words you won't see no improvements to properly optimised games, and if you have an un-optomised N64 game, then well, is it worth the hassle? ...We are talking N64!!!!!!!!!
there's no actual point behind it, but it's like having linux on n64 (almost, as linux would be more of a feat to me), it's the joy of achievement.
the only improvements i noticed were on Perfect Dark multiplayer. i thought that it was a really cool and unusual mod, so i did it. you should use a 2000 copyrighted board tho
I overclocked one... wasn't really much point tho, as anything that had slowdown still had some slowdown.
Meh... I've overclocked my homemade dev Pong unit from Radio Shack. The real problem was when it melted into a flaming pile of molten metal and plastic. It didn't like that 240v DC coming across the PSU. Yes, I wired something wrong. No, burnt capacitors really don't smell like cinnamon when they explode.
one of my N64 mainboards didn't like the 3.0x multiplicator (187MHz instead of the default 93,75Mhz) without cooled cpu&cpu and gave me a nice and warm fire :lol:
Overclocking the SNES: http://www.99-gtp.com/ucm/snesoc.htm Multi console overclocking: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11261_7-6298931-3.html I can't seem to find a link to the NES overclocking, it seems only one site ever hosted the instructions and everyone else linked to it...
Can't remember if it was Linux or a stripped version of Irix, but the N64 did have a version of *nix released for it on the homebrew side. -hl718
trying to overclock the snes is rather pointless, imho. even more so in the way that guy tries to achieve it. he is running the system at the normal 21mhz and clocking the cpu alone at rates that arent even close to being multiples of the the system clock at all. thats just asking for trouble when it comes to systems like the snes. i also believe that slow access times of various internals and cartridge rom disallow any serious overclocking. there's a reason the cpu slows down to half its maximum speed when accessing certain ppu registers, after all. if he'd be doing it the "proper" way, by altering the internal cpu clock divider for just the maximum speed, he might be on to something. i'm afraid its hardwired into the cpu, though.
Wow this topic is old but I would like to bring it back. I have been wanting to break out one of my many 64's and OC it for one reason. Perfect Dark Mulitplayer. Back in the day on game night it was the biggest hit. It was me, my brothers, uncles, and dad. We would gather around the big screen and play the 4 of us on a team aginst a crap load of bots. We always would get laptop guns and set them up in this pillbox and all hide in there. Then when the bots game in we would waylay them with millions of bullets lol. Funniest thing ever, anyway it always lagged and thus took away some of the fun. With 4 humans and 8-12 bots it was kinda bad at points. I want to play it again but am wondering if a overclock would help out much? I know people said it did help, but to what degree? Does it remove all lag or what? Hopefully someone who did it is still around and can tell me. Thanks!
