N64 Video Upgrades - 12/21/2022

Most of my experience with N64s has been via emulation. Starting on ground zero with UltraHLE, most of my N64 projects involved native controller to PC integration including a particularly long engagement with a wireless conversion that's seen 4 revisions to date. Still, in the late 90s my family actually owned real N64 hardware and decades after it parted ways I became interested in video upgrade paths.  

For this project, I ended up modding two NUS-CPU-05 N64s. One with Tim Worthington's N64RGB and the other with PixelFX's N64Digital. The difference being that the N64RGB upgrades the analog multiout to include a nicely deblurred RGB signal while the N64Digital completely re-encodes the N64's digital AV signals into an upscaled HDMI output. Of course, both systems were treated to my standard deep clean process.

First up, we have the N64RGB Install