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SEGA Master System
pbj:
I’ve got… 11 consoles hooked up to my CRT. I mostly just leave them in attract mode. They bring me peace during meetings. I gaze over at them and my bean bag and ponder my direction in life.
Anyway, here’s the dumbest purchase in the history of humanity. These can be converted to anything ever released, though.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: pbj on August 15, 2024, 08:42:34 pm --- These can be converted to anything ever released, though.
--- End quote ---
Monopoly UK edition, Monopoly Australia edition, Monopoly Luxembourg edition...
😄
On a slightly more serious note, nice idea having them in attract mode during meetings. Do you have an n64 going so you can tweek Mario's face?
pbj:
Go buy me a box of all those weird Australian games you got for years after they gave up on it in the US. I keep looking at them on eBay but I feel like they’re fishing for suckers.
Anyway, I’ve been successful on 2 out of 3 attempts to convert Monopoly to Phantasy Star.
The guide on Reddit and YouTube have you desoldering the mapper chip and bending out five pins. After I spent over an hour per cartridge desoldering that damned thing, I took a closer look at the pcb. 2 of the pins are floating, 2 have an easily cut trace, and 1 has a bigger trace that takes some effort but can be done. Far, far easier than removing and replacing that custom chip.
It ain’t pretty but it’s working fine on my Master System. Not booting on my Chinese sms -> genesis converter. Makes me wonder if they got the circuit slightly wrong or something. Not too many 512kB games out there…
pbj:
Got the 3rd one working. A particularly insidious solder bridge on two pins on the mapper. Anyway, time to hot glue these rat nest wires down to the PCB and then put the cartridge on a shelf to collect dust.
:lol
Printed a new insert…
pbj:
The power of mailing labels and clear packing tape...
Cartridge template is attached. I got it off some guy on Reddit and made a couple tweaks. The game name font seems to be Modern No. 216 Thin with -2pt character spacing.
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