Friday, May 7, 2010

How to build your own Doctor V64 power supply.

I'm going to start spamming my blog with old nfos,zip files from the N64 scene that aren't that easy to find in a fast google search , so hopefully these sort of posts will be helpful to new/old owners of mainly Doctor V64.

1997-09-11.

"!!!! OF COURSE I DON'T TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU KILL YOURSELF OR YOUR DOC64
WILL TRYING THAT STUFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!


HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN V64-POWER SUPPLY V1.0
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Ok Dudes, bung is very good in delivering defective Power-Supplies with their
Doctors, also at sometimes a Power-Supplie overheats and works no more.

Here is a simple way how to built your own powersupply:

Items you need :

1. A broken V64-PowerSupply (actually only the cable which gets plugged into
your Doctor64)

2. A normal PC-PowerSupply (same you use in your Desktops or BigTowers)
3. Some Solder Iron

All you have to do is to connect the cable from your DoctorV64-PowerSupply
to one of the free connectors of your PC-PowerSupply (for example one
of those you normally use for your powering a HarddiskDrive)


Here is the PIN-Layout:

Doctor V64 Cable:
-----------------
blue = +5v
white = ground
red = +12v
brown = ground


PC-Connector:
-------------
red = +5v
yellow = +12v
black = ground
black = ground


All you have to do now is to solder/connect the stuff together

DV64 Blue <-> PC Red
DV64 White <-> PC Black
DV64 Red <-> PC Yellow
DV64 Brown <-> PC Black


Now that should work then.


-have fun



Conception and Realization: |-}MadDoc{-|
Tested: Nightraver
Translated to English: ACTRAiSER"

Original text file can be found here: psupply.zip

6 comments:

  1. Mine just died on me, thanks for the info. I'm thinking of using an s-video cable and one of those power supplies that comes with a USB to IDE adapters. It would certainly look nicer than an old PC power supply sitting beside the N64.

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  2. Very helpful, i have the cable coming from the back of my desktop. So good to see it working again. Haven't used it in 10 years.
    Thanks very much :)

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  3. Do you have a video on how to do this?

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  4. i did all of this correctly but nothing happened when i turned it on tried it with 3 power supplies . did you use AT or ATX power supplies.

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  5. I haven't tried this tutorial myself since mine is amazingly still alive, according to wikipedia people are using AT power supplies.

    Make sure that you don't have the black screen syndrome: http://emuconsoleexploitnews.blogspot.com/2011/04/doctor-v64-black-screen-connector-fix.html
    And if it's a second hand v64 it might also possibly be a bad bios flash. And lastly the rgb ports might be loose, they are on mine so i had to tape the cables on the back in a firm position to make the screen output good.

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  6. to the guy that tried 3 power supply's did you wire in a on/off switch for the atx PSU ? they dont turn them selves on. i used a small itx PSU myself. If not you need to create a short to the green wire to any black wire on the main 20+4 pin atx plug. personally i wired in a off and on switch

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