I just got an SNES from my cousin recently, and when I opened it up I found some very interesting things inside (I'll try to get a picture if I can). It's has basically the same insides as the SNES 1 (and identical outside), but there's a large square in one corner, reading "SHVC-SOUND 1990 Nintendo Co., Ltd. MITSUMI ELEC. CO., Ltd."
I didn't even think the SNES came out that early, but I can believe it. However, the board layout is much different than other SNES's that I've opened, and there's this weird looking mechanism that makes it so you can't insert a game when the power's on, but you can pull the game out when the power is on. So...
You used the melting pen technique, I have to open up a Toploader to give it a nice cleaning, I remember that techinique from GCDev forums, but I can't remember how to do it, and what end, do I need to remove the ink cartridge before puting it on the screw, or what?
