I just added a reset switch to my C64 using your guide. Works like a charm. Used a round, smooth, dark tan LEGO plate to work as a button, which gets close to the actual case colour.

Thanks for this video !!! I am going to perform them reset I had already done years back and also done as a kid in 1986. I only suggest taking the cardboard out as only creates more heat in the chips where some already get so hot. Better yet on the Sid chip and CPU maybe more chips with some thermal tape some heatsinks on it. They will keep working longer and sometimes there is a heatshield from Commodore itself that is better than nothing. Sure the Vic2 chip all the way, it gets boiling hot. But often have a cover on it for cooling. Gr Ed

Great tutorial!, just got done installing the additional A/V-out in my C64. Works perfectly well ^_^ Next thing will be an internal SD2IEC

I had to alter the steps abit when I was doing this. The upper most pin between those two sets of 3 pins is also ground and I had to use that as the ground pin on mine is in a different location. Produces a BEAUTIFUL and CRISP picture though! Thanks for posting this!

Spotted a nice TAC-2 joystick too!

Note to retro game system collectors. I just had success modding an AV cable for a modal 1 Sega Genesis - Megadrive by opening up the plug and re-soldering the AV wires to the right pins. Note on mine the two internal wires were yellow and white and ground wires were already on pin 2 so real easy. Otherwise this mod is great. :)

It performs a "soft" reset instead of a "hard" reset, meaning it keeps the contents in memory. This is useful for game cheating, adding pokes for infinite lives, level selects, collision detection removal etc etc before SYSing the machine code location for restarting the game.

Great video - just what I need. One question: Shouldn’t you also ground the audio out (similar to what you do for video out)? Thx!

nice video but you are able to install a buzzer inside the C2N datassette tape? would be very helpful! ;)

Excellent video friend! Well done!

Very good one, lad. Perhaps a fast loading mod is a must,

On the av connectors. Take it that the Audio out is grounded, but on the Video out, is it attached to the centre pin of the RCA?

Good job on the mod but I always try to not alter the case if I can. However, your work appears to be good. But keep in mind that you can actually get S-Video and/or composite with just a cable. No case drilling needed and there are reset cartridges too. So, no real need to alter the case for those two mods.

Does the video and audio have a common ground? If yes you should connect video ground to audio ground right?

nice one

What's the advantage of a reset button over powering off and on? (I'm wondering because I've just bought my first C64 and I'm still moving my first steps :D)

Had I done it today I would've made a cable instead but at the time I didn't have the parts needed.

Another way without drilling what I used to do back in the day was to take the ground wire from the 1530 datasette and touch it against pin 3 of the user port.

Nice video

Nice mod! Good work :)

What do You use to create your videos?

@glashio Thanks!

Is there any difference between pressing reset or just flicking the power switch off and on?

@cbmeeks

7 жыл бұрын

Also, a soft reset like this helps reduce the sudden surge of power through the C64 on a cold start. Not to mention preserving the mechanical switch.

Thank you. ;)

tack så mycket

It works. Thank You:):):)

What is the point of modding for AV out when it natively supports both Composite and S-Video through the 8 Pin jack?

@bluskos

6 жыл бұрын

By doing so it makes it easier to output composite as you can simply use widely-available composite cables rather than a specific cable for the 8 pin jack.

@charvelgtrs

6 жыл бұрын

But cables for Commodore 64 are readily available and cheap.

@TheKetsa

2 жыл бұрын

@@charvelgtrs A/V cables are much more common and cheaper.

try s-video with 300 ohm resistance

Does this switch perform hard or soft reset?

@TheKetsa

2 жыл бұрын

Soft

I see a Philips Videopac on the left :)

I followed these steps! But it doesn't seems to be working here! Any help suggested is welcome!!

@JorgeCarvalho_web_dev

10 жыл бұрын

Hi! Check for lose wires, it looks like one wire come lose... Do you have picture? Does it reset?

@RetroGeek Computers, if you are going to slag a person of then at least be nice about it, but maybe you don't have that in you. If he could only be as perfect and as wonderful as you, he would be great.

Am I the only one who found out that actually the stock switch acts as reset if you switch on and off very quickly?

Nice video, i have also mod my c64. II have also made some video's of it, if you have the time you can check them out if you want.

there reset switches for sale ! don´t make mods on you Commodore !

@FloppydriveMaestro

6 жыл бұрын

Web Warp why pay for something when mods are free.

Adding a reset button will eventually short out all capacitors...DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

@altubes

10 жыл бұрын

If you always turn on/off the power of you c64 to reset your machine and change games you may burn out your fuse and stress your electronic components inside your machine due to peak voltage when you power on. Reset switch, resets your machine like a "command instruction" so no power on/off and voltage stress is required ..just a normal 1 capacitor short out.

@TheKetsa

2 жыл бұрын

I had reset buttons on my C64's since the eighties. No problem.