SNES cartridges.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:51 am

Not sure if this is the right forum, but hey, I'm new.

Anyways I'm making a snesp out of the '95 version of the snes.

I was taking apart one of the snes cartridges, and I noticed how much empy space is in them (about half). Has anybody ever redesigned a snes cartrdige to make it smaller and more protable? And if so, can you point me in that general direction?

Post by **gannon** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:57 am

I haven't seen anyone do that, although lots of people talk about it.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:01 am

Then perhaps i'll be the first.

Just wondering...

Molding a case with styrofoam and fiberglass....would that work?

And also, (when I get home) I'll need some help determining what a ca chop off on my snes. I know I can trim the edge grounding part, but what about the sectio where the exp slot used to be?

Post by **gannon** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:03 am

no, you can't trim that part off (although you can remove the exp slot itself)

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:05 am

Why not? And what other parts look bare that I can't trim off?

Post by **marshallh** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:10 am

The reason you can't chop off parts of the circuit board is because the PCB is multilayered, with traces running inside it that you can't see. If you chop off something it might kill your SNES.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:12 am

is there a way to tell where the inside connections are? or do i need to find a diagram of it.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:17 am

CRAP!!! I jsut remembered...

What I was gona do is chop the sens board in half along the game port, and sort of fold it over ad solder wires from one half to the other... that would'nt work would it?

Post by **marshallh** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:17 am

There isn't anything that can tell you where the traces are. I'd just desolder everything you don't need and leave the SNES motherboard as-is. I think it's much better to have a slightly bigger case instead of a dead SNES.

Believe me, if the board could have been cut down by now, someone would have done it. The Atari's circuit board was simple enough that you could tell what could be chopped off but with the SNES unfortunately there really isn't any way to do that.