Knocked off chip at U11 on Gamecube help-question?

[mmz16x]

Hello I knocked off the 8 pin chip from my gc motherboard and the chips pins all are broke where can I get a replacement chip and or is this chip even needed?

 

[FAST6191]

Looking at http://www.forums.modretro.com/index.php?threads/the-definitive-gc-motherboard-trimming-guide.6476/ and http://forums.modretro.com/index.ph...ive-gc-motherboard-trimming-guide.6476/page-7 it appears to be a regulator of some form speaking directly to the CPU (or someone speaking to the CPU anyway) so I would probably assume it is necessary. Some have discussed replacing it but it appears to be a somewhat potent device. this reddit post knocked one off during thermal pad replacement but merely got one from another gamecube.

The reddit link being clear enough to get some numbers
MAE
213
Not very helpful really and the usual two choices for partial part numbers ( https://octopart.com/search?q=mae+213&currency=USD&specs=0 https://www.alldatasheet.com/view.jsp?Searchword=MAE 213 ) reveal not a lot here, even dropping down to MAE.

Legs being gone is not necessarily fatal to this but it will be very annoying -- you can grind away/chip away with a scalpel at the case of a device to find the parts leading to the bond wires/remains of the legs and solder to those instead, indeed it was a method that some used for Wii mod chips when Nintendo started to clip pins. Or if it is like the reddit link then soldering to leg remains is an option, I would probably deadbug it (turn it on its back and throw wires around) but play it how you will.
You might also go the other way and solder wires to it and in turn putting those on a component identifier but if this is a more complicated device than a group of convertors, regulators or the like then not much good is likely to come from it.

 

[mmz16x]

darn ok thx u for your help I will have to find a part board prolly other then ebay and mercari any good places for dead gamecube motherboards?

 

[FAST6191]

Never heard of mercari but seems to be the same as any other attempt to dethrone ebay.

Following a thread yesterday I was on goodwill's games/electronics site and various consoles were being listed as spares and repairs and it is unlikely this was the same part that broke. https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/nintendo-gamecube for that one. ("parts/repair" being the keyword you probably want there but nothing listed at present for that one).

Otherwise gamecubes are somewhat valuable devices these days it seems and firmly in the retro camp which means people pay up and do fix them. I don't know if the Wii (which for the most part is an overclocked gamecube that shares a lot of parts and design philosophy) will have an equivalent on the board somewhere (quick scan of some random picture says nothing obvious but maybe in the regulation section) as those are still ten a penny. Be lucky at a yard sale, estate sale, flea market and such like which means up with sun (if not before both to beat out the other nerds and because winter) and hope you encounter a clueless type to sell it on for the same price as an equivalent vintage toaster then being the other choices and for the most part gamecubes are pretty solid little devices other than the laser so unless this GC has some super mods or is super rare you are probably breaking a working device to get it done.

Could be worth going a bit further into what it is and what they do. Might have to go the other way and see what it connects to and what voltages would be expected on them/coming out of them. It is unlikely to be some programmed part as much as a voltage fiddler of some form you could find some kind of an equivalent for (even if you have to deadbug/glue it to the PCB somewhere and throw wires around).