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Hacking The Nintendo Game & Watch: Flash Upgrade with air heat gun
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ธ.ค. 2021
- Hacking The Nintendo Game & Watch: Flash Upgrade with heat a gun
In this video I demonstrate how to upgrade the SPI flash chip in the Nintendo game and watch ( Zelda Or Mario Edition) For more storage.
**I recommend taking the whole motherboard out for this job **
PLEASE BE CARFUL! I am not responsible for any damaged game and watch from following my guide
Enjoy my video on how to upgrade the flash chip on your Hacked game and watch , My other videos on hacking the G&W are here :
Here are some tools I used to get started:
- Air Iron
- Solder
- Flux
- Flash Chip
- G&W
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The wait is over, I have been following your tutorials all the way to this point, thanks to you, not only I now have two newly modified well designed handheld old school gaming devices, but also had a great time learning Linux command line, leveling up soldering skills, etc. Truly great work! Thanks man, It's been a fun journey. Cheers.
I think I'm correct in saying that the Mario G&W is a 8Mbit (1MB) flash, whereas the Zelda is a 32Mbit (4MB) flash. As such, Mario benefits considerably from this upgrade, while Zelda is serviceable without it. Anyone wanting one of these to hack will get more bang for their buck by buying the Zelda one, particularly since it has additional buttons.
(It was quite difficult to find the actual flash size of Zelda, since the GitHub pages I was looking at use Mb and MB interchangeably. In the end I just had to Google the part number visible in this video!)
Dude, dont sweat melting the tray. I did that on my Mario version following your 16mb upgrade being lazy and had exactly the same result. In hindsight I could have at least Kapton taped it lol. Thanks for your videos dude. Been a great help
yes all learning experience!
@@RetroResinCA thats cool effort but this much heat is not good for the battery and best practice would be removing the battery first cheers
I kapton taped and still managed to melt my battery tray!
@@martyweiner4274 yes , I recommend removing the whole board before this upgrade!
my man... Heating up a component near a battery.. That is a no go! This video could have end with a disaster. ABS plastic has a glas transition temperature of approx. 105 degrees celcius. So heating it up around 300 degrees celcius is obviously gonna melt it.
Long exposure to heat can destroy the lithium ion polymer battery. The temperature at which the lithium ion batteries explode is 1000 °F that is 538 °C. I would not want to take that risk myself.
EDIT:
Nevermind, you corrected yourself right away, but everyone who's planning to do this, remove the battery and remove the board entirely. Use kapton tape to tape off everything that doesnt need to be heated. Also don't aim the airgun to close. It will burn components.
Haha Yep painful to watch how the the plastic is melting and burning..
I found this video very useful thank you
ok that is one way ,but when you do not use capton tape it is better use low melt solder to get the chip out
Can you do a guide on dual booting with the larger chip? Stock plus retrogo?
there should be a video on that
« Now we can have fun with it… »
Not yet…
You need to program it before to enjoy 😂
Thanks
So do games with save states save games like in Zelda links awakening?
I believe you can use save state with retrogo
there are tons of spi chip options with legs.. of course they only get to like 64-128GB.. what is the stock spi chip size, if its 64, 128 should be a decent upgrade? I am way to lazy to try to use a heat gun..
Hi, is there a step before changing the chip? Like does the firmware need to be dumped first or do I change the chip first? Also where can I purchase the 512mb chip from? Thank you for the awesome tutorials bro.
Good question, You should have the device unlocked prior to this chip upgrade also with the firmware backed up, replace chip then install retrogo or Custom firmware. www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/macronix/MX25U51245GZ4I00/9085437
Thank you
What a concept, we learn from your error😂
🤷🏻♂️
@@RetroResinCAit's not trolling, it's a serious concept, could be really funny. Make a disclaim in the video and made the kind of error beginner did. As soon it's working
I unlocked my GW and able to flash original FW back into the upgraded memory chip. However, I'm not able to put retro-go in it. Which guide did you use? I found some guides online but none of the work. I can't even install it with the original memory chip.
this one's mostly outdated
@@RetroResinCA So is there a guide that is updated?
Subscribed, do you offer this as a service for people with G&W's already?
I can , just find me on discord
Hi, Great video. Thank you. One question, when you said you reflash it, where I should start after new chip is installed. How this works. Thanks again.
You can restore original, then start off from what ever you want to install
post the link of the chip
Great video’s, keep it up. Where did you get the flash chip? Would you happen to have the link? I’m guessing the 64 meg chip will also work on the Mario version as well? Thx in advance
thank you! the chips are from digikey , I will grab the link
www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/macronix/MX25U51245GZ4I00/9085437
Thank You
Total newbie here looking to mod my mario game and watch. If I don’t want to up my flash memory can I still get some more games on this thing? Have a dummy guide I can follow that avoids soldering?
You need to flash it. you can use debug ports rather than soldering!
Hi i have backup ,unlock and change the chip ,what is the next step?step 5 restore?
You can restore
How can you add games? Can you create an menu to choose them?
Watch my videos 😁
Hello! I made a mistake... I had 2 consoles, I backed up first, hacked, changed the chip, restored the backup, recorded a bunch of games, everything is fine with this. Did all this in VMware under Mac. I also made a backup of the second console, hacked it, left the soldering of the chip for later, made a snapshot in VMware. Later I soldered the chip, and when I started to restore the firmware, I realized that I accidentally deleted the snapshot with the backup. Question: if I solder 1mb stock chip back to console can I take a backup from it and restore it to 64mb later? Or will it not work anymore, since the console at this stage was already hacked and I have a hacked version recorded in the stock 1mb chip?
When you change the flash, the device will read what ever is on that flash. The device is already unlocked so it will just work as it should. If I understand your question correctly lol
@@RetroResinCA Not correct. In order to write custom firmware to the console with the ability to dual boot with retrogo, you need to specify the path to the original image backup that was lost... I already have a version with a hack on the original chip, after all 5 steps taken. It turns out I can no longer make an original backup from it? I also can't use backup from another console :(
@@b0s0n_h1ggs Not sure what you are asking. But if you don't have a flash with stock firmware anymore and you did not back it up, No way to get a backup anymore.. unless you have a fresh unit to backup.
you can absolutely use a back from another console.
Did you used any extra commands when restoring the new chip, I’m using the same as you 512mb
should be the same. if you have trouble let me know
I can change the chip after 4_unlock_device.sh?
or i need first restore on the old chip and again on the new?
You can do that, make sure you backup & unlocked
kapton tape the surrounding before using the heat gun
What is the purpose to change to this chip ?
more storage
Do you end up with 64mb or 512mb of extra storage?
512 i believe, been a while
Очень плохая работа. Плату надо было снять с консоли. Ты расплавил корпус и аккумулятор
Dude…TAKE THE BOARD OUT BEFORE USING HEAT!
RIGHT!
5:47 he farted? xDDD
its the chair my dude 😅😆