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Will my GBS board work with this mod? It is "V5.1"...

Open Gabriel2Silva opened this issue 3 years ago • 8 comments

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So, recently I got this GBS board from AliExpress. It works unmodded fine with a Nintendo Wii. I was reading up on the mod and I noticed my board isn't exactly the "yellow button" board, it isn't V5.0, but V5.1, and it has "20210115" written on it, so it's probably a recent model. It looks undocumented. I just want to know if I still need to remove C11. Thanks in advance.

Gabriel2Silva avatar Sep 12 '21 21:09 Gabriel2Silva

Follow "5.0" part of wiki for removal/replacement of C11

TABYDACAT avatar Sep 14 '21 14:09 TABYDACAT

The board will work, but the quality will possibly not be any good. Trial and error (but get the recommended board soon).

ramapcsx2 avatar Sep 14 '21 16:09 ramapcsx2

The board will work, but the quality will possibly not be any good. Trial and error (but get the recommended board soon).

Is 4.0 the recommended one and is 5.0 / 5.1 inferior ?

TotalCoolness avatar Sep 14 '21 22:09 TotalCoolness

I get a board like that, even same date, it's working and I ask the same question. 20210914_184250

askotx avatar Sep 15 '21 01:09 askotx

Modded it and it is working. I have removed C11. Only issue I have is that the gbscontrol keeps going back to Access Point mode randomly, but I'm not sure if that's related to the board version.

Gabriel2Silva avatar Sep 15 '21 17:09 Gabriel2Silva

The output section of the yellow button boards is missing filters, so there's a greater chance of a noisy image. If yours is fine, then great :)

ramapcsx2 avatar Sep 15 '21 18:09 ramapcsx2

Confimed, removing C11 make picture looks clearer, a bit but better.

askotx avatar Sep 16 '21 17:09 askotx

For what it's worth I have the same model, and I performed the recommended mods - most exactly as shown by Voultar in his recent video. I also went ahead and did as recommended in these guides, adding a 22uF electrolytic cap to the VReg replacing the removed C11. For me the image at 1080p and 960p is as good as can be expected - pretty much what I consider "pristine" and similar to what the GBS-C AIO project showed off as obtainable results. I really think the remove/replace/stack cap mods make a difference. Previously I'd done a GBS 8220 that I was not able to get good quality out of having skipped the cap mods. From the short testing I did this time, 720p and 480p output still showed faint wavy lines, matching my previous experience with the lower output resolutions looking worse.

jon-nielsen avatar Oct 14 '21 14:10 jon-nielsen