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Lingwendil:
Very cool project.

A suggestion- check out JLCPCB for possible future orders. They have been wonderful for me, and every bit as high quality as PCBway and OSHpark. Very competitive pricing. I had customer service issues with both the other places for hobby stuff.
pbj:
I’ll check them out.  The price actually went down on shipping slightly for this latest batch from pcbway.

In other news, I’ve been pondering making a PCE to TG16 adapter.  The only difference between the two is the order of 8 pins are reversed on the edge connector.  TG16 carts also have some rudimentary region protection that’s defeated by grounding a pin on a PC Engine.

With that edge connector I linked previously and some tweaking of these PCBs, I feel like we’re close to being able to do this.  Here’s an adapter on eBay that shows how simple this is..







 :dunno
jeremymtc:

--- Quote from: pbj on May 08, 2024, 06:44:09 pm ---In other news, I’ve been pondering making a PCE to TG16 adapter.  The only difference between the two is the order of 8 pins are reversed on the edge connector.  TG16 carts also have some rudimentary region protection that’s defeated by grounding a pin on a PC Engine.

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Might it be possible to layout the pcb with a jumper or switch to reverse those pins for compatibility with both systems? Basically to have parallel traces and then define which path is used?
pdco_arcade:
Ordered a few of those connectors back when working on the HuCARD.  Took right at 3 months to receive them.  I had figured been took to the cleaners.  That adapter a real need or just dreaming?
pcefaner:
I'm very happy
There are still many PC-E players DIYing HuCARDs
I will also post some pictures I made myself
DIY large cards


PC-Engine + large card


super grafx + large card
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