1.6 Upgrade Check

tl:dr tried to mod 1.6 OSSC for higher firmwares. Tore off top pad of R35. Soldered to a via labelled LED0 in line with that pad on the kicad PCB diagram instead. Things seem to work, but I’m still a little concerned so I’m asking here what to look out for if this actually failed.

Hello all,
Today I modded my 1.6 OSSC to take advantage of the 1.21 firmware via the hardware mod, in particular the alt firmware loading to run with voidscaler. Anyway while removing R35 I accidentally tore off the pad that would be soldered to for the mod. Instead of soldering to that pad, I instead soldered the wire to a small, nearby via on the underside of the PCB. On the kicad file it was labelled as LED0, went through all of the layers and was on the same trace as the original intended pad. Theoretically, it should work fine, and everything does seem to be working. I’ve tried line 6x mode with 240p, 3x with 480p, setting HDR and VRR flags (although I did not get any sync drop with VRR enabled, it was displaying a picture just fine) and playing with a few other settings and everything seemed to work just fine. Even voidscaler works fine (although the LCD is less bright and seems to flicker), however, I thought I would ask here just in case. What signs should I be looking out for if the modification failed?

Thanks in advance all.

EDIT: Voidscaler seems to work rather intermittently, although I was using a component to VGA converter, so that might have something to do with it more than the OSSC itself, awaiting responses from the a thread about the voidscaler firmware.

• This topic was modified 3 weeks, 2 days ago by IronCan.
• This topic was modified 3 weeks, 2 days ago by IronCan.
• This topic was modified 3 weeks, 2 days ago by IronCan. Reason: Voidscaler working intermittently