I know, but no soldering is involved on them. I wish this was easy! I just do not want to screw up and mess up my system Thanks!Amano Jacu:
I wasn't referring to computer hardware, at least not at the level which is just plugging and unplugging things.
Sorry, but anyway a videogame board is mainly the same as a computer board.
better start practising now.neogeofl:
Well, I have a soldering tool. Just afraid to screw up anything.
This EXACTLY what I was meaning... wink Kiddos nowadays have it way toooooo easy and lazy.Razoola:
God I'm gonna show my age here....
There was a day when computer hardware and soldering went hand in hand. I remember the days of soldering 25pin printer cables, rs232 and such. God, network engineers got it easy today, well unless you the poor dood joining optical fibre links
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God I am glad I found this thread. I have been wanting to do this mod for my CD as well! I have a question though. Do you just need 1 wire connecting JN1 (left side of board) to the right side, or do you need 2 wires?Amano Jacu
On the right part of the controller board, there are four pairs of 2 points each (see the third picture for a close up). The bottom one (JN1) is the one that matters. In your JAP system there shouldn't be anything there. In a USA system there's a jumper (a piece of metal) connecting both points on JN1 (think of the red line drawn there). So if you want to play in JAP (no censorship, so blood and bounce, but JAP text in some games, in other you can change it in the options anyway) those 2 points need to be disconnected. If you want US mode (so all in English but censored), those two points need to be connected. So what you do is solder two pieces of wire, one on each point of JN1. Now you have two ends of that pieces of wire. You attach a small lever switch on them, so that when it is in ON position those two ends make contact, thus connecting both points of JN1 and allowing US mode. If it is in OFF position those two ends don't make contact, thus the JN1 points are not connected, then it is JAP mode. Now you drill a hole somewhere in order to fix the switch there and that's all.
As Wolferaizer suggests, you can take any piece of wasted computer hardware and practice soldering/desoldering all the stuff in there.
I hope that helped. If you have concrete questions just ask. [/QB]
We can go thru this all day, but Hardware in "ENTRY LEVEL" Position and I have a soldering tool, but do not want to mess up my Neo. My PC I would try it on, but not my Neo. I have been in the field for 14 yrs and never had a "small resistor or anything else detach". And I am Technical Support, why would I call it?!?! And, if you are so smart and do not need training, then I guess you are just the Greatest Person on this Forum then! Then, why do you not know networking if you are sooo smart and need "NO" Training in anything, huh? Just curious!Amano Jacu:
OK, soldering isn't needed anymore... So imagine for some reason your PC falls and one small resistor or anything else dettaches, and because of that the PC malfunctions. What do you do? Phone the technical service so they can repair it? Replace the entire piece of hardware? Or directly throw away the PC and buy a new one?
OK, I have no idea about networking, but at least I know how to solder 2 points in a PCB, and nobody has taught me that nor I needed to have a certification before I had the guts to do this myself to my console.
Yeah, OK, whatever. In any case notice I took the time to actually write a detailed description of the mod and even gave a link with pics of a similar one, and I still haven't heard a simple "Thank you". If you still don't have the guts to do this soldering yourself, then just send your NGCD here and I will gladly do it for you. Notice that if I ever had the need of doing a network, be sure that I would learn how to do it instead of sending all the needed parts to you.neogeofl:
We can go thru this all day, but Hardware in "ENTRY LEVEL" Position and I have a soldering tool, but do not want to mess up my Neo. My PC I would try it on, but not my Neo. I have been in the field for 14 yrs and never had a "small resistor or anything else detach". And I am Technical Support, why would I call it?!?! And, if you are so smart and do not need training, then I guess you are just the Greatest Person on this Forum then! Then, why do you not know networking if you are sooo smart and need "NO" Training in anything, huh? Just curious!