Genisis portable

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:46 pm

I was looking at a target add today and found this it looks like it would be great for building a genisis portable maybe not becuase theres no cart slot but there might be a way to get one on im not sure.

s3ptic · Post by **s3ptic** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 5:15 pm

I think there was already a forum post about this. I remember people talking about replacing the flash card(or whatever holds the games) with a cart slot, but I don't think anyone ended-up buying it. You can do a search if your interested in it.

[Update]
O.K. I was boared and did a search,

http://www.benheck.com/Games/Videogame%20Forums.htm

and I was wrong scherzo got one and ripped it open. The topic just kind of died. Scherzo if your reading this topic did you ever get it to work with a cart?

Heres another topic metioning it(with some internal shots)
http://www.benheck.com/Games/Videogame%20Forums.htm

Post by **Triton** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 5:28 pm

damn you beat me to it. i saw the same add and thought the samwe thing, weird eh

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:08 pm

Well, I ripped out the ROM on the Radica Genesis and I managed to desolder the cart port from a Genesis2. I have yet to put these together. There's a couple of things stopping me. 1) I have no clue how to efficiently match up the cart connector pins to the contacts for the ROM other than pure trial and error, which could probably end up taking years. I need some technical info to at least make good guesses. 2) my soldering skills are kind of weak. I need to practice more. Last week while trying to desolder some stuff, I put my SNES2 board out of comission until further notice.

That was my wake up call to do some more experimenting with soldering on junk I don't care about.

Post by **benheck** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:27 pm

Wow, they have these things at Target? I should get one!

MajorLag · Post by **MajorLag** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:39 pm

scherzo wrote:Well, I ripped out the ROM on the Radica Genesis and I managed to desolder the cart port from a Genesis2. I have yet to put these together. There's a couple of things stopping me. 1) I have no clue how to efficiently match up the cart connector pins to the contacts for the ROM other than pure trial and error, which could probably end up taking years. I need some technical info to at least make good guesses. 2) my soldering skills are kind of weak. I need to practice more. Last week while trying to desolder some stuff, I put my SNES2 board out of comission until further notice. That was my wake up call to do some more experimenting with soldering on junk I don't care about.

I have no idea if this would work, but couldn't you take apart a genesis cartridge and, if it has a similar enough ROM in it, just use the pinout from that?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:50 am

Yeah if you look in the 16bit Fourm one member has started on it. The last thing I read from him was he was trying to get the cart attachment from his genesis to the Radica, he need the pinout. Dont know he he's done anything more.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:48 am

well if that little guy dont work you could always use a Gennisis REV 3. Screw NO GAME GENIE they suck.