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Opening a Mega Drive cart

  • 23-10-2010 3:54pm
    #1
    Joe Musashi
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 470 ✭✭


    I'm having a lot of trouble trying to get something to open it with. All the pliers I've tried have been a bit too big.

    Is there any kind of cheap tool that I could get in a hardware shop for the job? For the people who have done this before, what did you use? Any advice that will make this easier?

    I've opened up a Japanese cart before and all you had to do was unscrew a couple of normal screws. Why couldn't they have made these ones as easy. :o


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  • #2
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    The proper way is to use a gamebit screwdriver, you can get them on ebay quite cheap. There is of course the melted birow method, which I'll leave you to google :D


  • #3
    Atavan-Halen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,183 ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Melted biro didn't work for me :( I now have a stack of melted pens.

    I had to open up a Gameboy cart to change the battery in it and eyebrow tweezers worked for me as they're small enough. Could give that a go or otherwise get yourself a gamebit.


  • #4
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Just think ing about this, I have a few carts that I dont need, I'd like to dump a rom onto the carts and make a custom label and case

    How would you go about doing this or what else could i do that would be interesting?


  • #5
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Jack burton wrote: »
    Just think ing about this, I have a few carts that I dont need, I'd like to dump a rom onto the carts and make a custom label and case

    How would you go about doing this or what else could i do that would be interesting?

    I doubt most of the carts have writeable roms, you'd need to lift off the existing proms, buy yourself some blank eeproms & a programmer then it's doable. I seen loads of stuff on various sites about building your own carts, it's quite achievable actually.


  • #6
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,269 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    You'd also have to make sure you were using the correct doner cart/board. The Snes has something like 15 different types of PCBs. I think the Megadrive is a lot lower though, maybe 4 or so. So should be easier.

    Great soldering skills are definitely a basic requirement too.


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  • #7
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,790 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Yeah I think I might just make a secret money stash out of a cartridge, too much effort for doing a repro of somthing


  • #8
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,269 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    How about putting a usb harddrive in one? I might just do that myself!


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