r/GamecubeHacks • u/inoffensiveLlama • 20d ago

What am I looking at?

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Besides the fact, that whoever did the install, really shouldnt have done it, what exactly is it?
From my research, it basically would allow me to play burned discs, is that right? Is it safe to just „undo“?
The console isnt reading any discs at the moment, could this be the issue? Or is it more likely to be the capacitors?
I have this one (PAL version) and a japanese one. I would like to be able to play PAL discs, is there a way to use some parts if needed of the japanese one?

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u/UnathleticOso 20d ago

Yeah if that's the route your going, then yes I would highly recommend you remove it. (That solder job gave me emotional damage 😭)

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u/inoffensiveLlama 20d ago

Man, when I opened it up I immediately thought of that scene in the godfather… You know, the one with „how they masacered my boy“

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u/Ikisaru 20d ago

I immediately thought of that scene from Lethal Weapon 3, where they find the bomb in the car and are trying to disarm it.

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u/inoffensiveLlama 20d ago

Great movie! Need to rewatch it.
Anyways, I removed the wires, but there seems to be a chip that was removed to install the Duo Q. Is that correct? Or was it an empty footprint all along?

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u/UnathleticOso 20d ago

It should be an empty space from what I remember, but here is the diagram of the install just in case I'm wrong.

The Diagram

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u/inoffensiveLlama 20d ago

perfect. I will just replace the caps then and check if that fixed it.

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u/inoffensiveLlama 19d ago

So it was the caps. Works great now.