2020/01/24

GameCube Japenese Region Switch

Hello Birders! 🐥🔧🎮🎉

Here is one of my first projects involving consoles. I was learning Japanese at the time and I had always wanted to play the Japanese version of Luigi's Mansion. My friend taught me how to modify this GameCube so that I could play my game. 
I soldered a switch to the motherboard, to switch between the region locks:
North America and South America (NTSC-U), and Japan and Asia (NTSC-J).  
I only took a few pictures, so here is a brief tear-down.

 
GameCube without the top shell: 


GameCube Motherboard: 


 I soldered the switch to these two points:


I used a hot glue gun to place the switch through the rear air vent:


Tada! 🎉

Professor E. Gadd: "Luigi, are you okay?"

I am so happy that I can play this now. It certainly added to my joy of learning another language!

Thank you!

-Pico

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