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NTSC Gamecube Region Mod

  • 03-07-2012 7:28pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭


    The US & Japanese versions of the Gamecube are region moddable [is moddable a word??] Because both are NTSC, it's possible to fit a switch that allows the console be be either a US model or a Japanese model. The PAL model is entirely different, & that requires the use of a modchip to be freed of its regional shackles.

    A US Gamecube

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    It's like breaking into Fort Knox to disassemble the Gamecube

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    The solder pads we need to access are under the heat sink

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    Heat sink removed, time to locate the solder pads we need to attach the switch to.

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    They are damned small, we need to attach wires to the R5 jumpers. Connecting them sets the console to Japanese, disconnecting them returns it to US.

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    There's a recess in the housing which should accommodate the body of the switch I'm using.

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    Luckily, the recess lines up with the grills for easy switch mounting.

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    Wires attached to jumper pads

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    Time to test, the switch in the down position is US, & in the up position is JP

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    Both regions work with their according discs, so nothing else to do but reassemble & 'continue testing' :D


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 retoro


    Nice tut, any tips for soldering to such small points?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,335 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    This mod paid for my college rag week back in 2001 :) Some lad up on Talbot Street in Dublin imported a load of them from Japan and balls'd up a the mod on one of them so I got I think 6~8 of them to do. Good times!

    He somehow broke the lid closed switch, luckily there are two switches in one so I just jumper'd the broken one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    retoro wrote: »
    Nice tut, any tips for soldering to such small points?

    Plenty of practice on old/broken electronics :)


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