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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: SFC and SNES compatibility: filing the cart does NOT work!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.193401.23763@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <199211211851.AA16802@friday>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 19:34:01 GMT
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- In article <199211211851.AA16802@friday> treed@bmt.gun.com (Timothy Reed) writes:
- >Frankly, I was doubtful about the whole thing working anyway, but in the
- >interests of Science, I picked up a copy of Contra III Alien Wars and
- >filed down the case so that it would fit in the SFC. I ended up
- >taking the whole cart apart, ...
- >I inserted the card into the SFC slot and powered up the TV and then the
- >SFC. A bright light flashed on the TV screen, after which the power light
- >on the SFC went out - the frigging thing was _dead_! ...
- >I checked out the card contacts, and the US cart contacts are definitely wider
- >than the Japanese ones, and probably shorted out by touching the
- >multiple contacts in the SFC.
-
- What does "wider" mean? Do you mean each individual contact is wider, or that
- the whole row of contacts is wider?
-
- If it's just that each individual contact is wider, you could very well have
- not quite reassembled it right; if you had inserted it half a contact to the
- left or right, each contact would have touched two in the SF, burning out the
- machine. Fiddling with bare circuit boards is rarely a good idea....
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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