their excellent pricing and fast turnaround times but they don't just do pcbs they also offer cnc machining NUMBER_TOKENd printing injection molding and even sheet metal fabrication so if you're designing your projects then pcbway has got you covered thanks again for your support and now let's get back to this week's project okay so before i start i just want to go over some prerequisites related to um you know installing this so for one uh you can see that a number of mods have already been done this was not done by me this was done by someone else but i thought i'd just demonstrate since they're here so the original very noisy fan has been replaced with a noctua fan and a NUMBER_TOKENd printed mount so this is a really nice thing to do just to make your dreamcast nice and quiet there's a pico psu installed instead of the original power supply i think this is a nice modification i'm not sure if it's necessarily like a required kind of thing the original psu does work very well and if you replace the capacitors on it it's great but i mean all that being said this is a very nice small form factor and i certainly don't think it's worse than the original power supply i would just say that it's in my opinion an optional kind of modification um and then finally we have a mode here and uh this is the device i was referring to earlier that lets you play games either from a solid state drive or from an sd card and this one's currently configured for the sd card so if you're doing the dc digital install you've got to look for a model vaNUMBER_TOKEN version of the console so that's really easy to figure out if you flip it upside down you'll see the number one circled over here and that is the version that you're trying to find all that being said most consoles are va ones there's a few va zeros from the launch period and then at the very end of the console's life there's a vaNUMBER_TOKEN so most of the time like i don't know maybe a good NUMBER_TOKEN something percent of them tend to be vaNUMBER_TOKEN so your chances of finding one are pretty easy all right so i'm going to go ahead and take this thing apart it only requires a phillips screwdriver so i'm not going to bother with showing that on on screen because if you don't know how to use a screwdriver well this mod is not for you all right so i'm going to go ahead and do that and then we're going to proceed with the installation okay so now we're down to the motherboard and we're going to get started with some modifications to the shell so that we can accommodate the new board first thing we're going to do is change the rf shielding here just trim some parts off and this is the top of the rf shield so it just goes like this it also doubles as a heat sink and what we're going to do is we're just going to take a set of flush cutters we're going to just snip that here this is on the back and then with a pair of pliers we're just going to rock this back and forth and the metal just breaks right
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