The main aim of the project is end up with something almost indistinguishable from an original, stock N64. To that end, the plan is to:
- Use all four original control ports and have all four controllers working correctly
- Use original power switch with safe shutdown circuit
- Use original reset switch
- Use original power supply (or at least make it look like it's being used)
The guts of the system will be a Raspberry Pi Compute module which has the following specifications:
- Broadcom BCM2837B0, Cortex-A53 (ARMv8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.2GHz
- 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM
- 8GB/16GB/32GB eMMC Flash memory, or a Lite variant without eMMC Flash memory
Note: I'm not unrealistic in my expections of performance here - I don't expect to N64 games to run perfectly on this. I'm in this mostly for the building anyway.
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