my 60-72 pin discovery story/ pictures of the mod attempt!

[komorebi]

Well I can finally say that I'm proficient in recognizing which carts have it and which ones don't. I went to about 6 different retro gaming stores, and they were all fail. Everyone seemed to know about the "adaptor", I was surprised. I was about to give up when I decided to try out the Flea Market. When I first got there I asked if they had Gyromite or Stack up. They had a whole ton of "doubles" under the table, he asked if I was looking for an adaptor and when I asked him if he knew of them he said he didn't and that he'd given up looking a long time ago. So I look at about 10 gyromite, duck hunt, mario, hogans ally.. you name it and no luck. I was about to call it quits when I noticed a stack of Excitebike games on the bottom of the pile. Not knowing if I had already looked at them I went through once more looking for the asymmetric contacts. Then suddenly I saw what might be it! It was very hard to tell since the contacts were very worn and covered in grime. I asked the guy if he could check and what do you know? It had it!

I felt really bad since this guy had been looking for 3 years with no luck and here I find one in his own shop, and decide to try and find him one too. So I go on looking for another and 20 minutes later I find a Hogan's Ally game that I suspect may have it. Again the contacts are very worn, but low and behold this one has it too! I was on a high at that point, so just out of curiosity I went to the other game store and found a gyromite and "ninja/karate something or other (not kung fu)" that I suspect had it. I didn't need anymore at that point and since the guy there was charging $10-$15 as opposed to $5 that I payed for Exitebike, I left them for now.    Oh and one important tip! I guess its kind of obvious, but if the cartridge and contacts looks really old/worn down, it very well might have an adapter inside. All the ones I suspected I could just barely make out the asymmetric contacts since they were used so much! 

Anyway, I didn't have a saw... just an x-acto knife, a pair of wire cutters and sandpaper but it didn't turn out too bad! I'm thinking about spray painting a zig zag famicom logo to give it some flair.   One question, any tips on what I could fill the top of the cart with to make it look more solid? I was thinking of just hot gluing a filler.

[fredJ]

Thank's for the tip.
It does feel sort of easier to buy an adapter for 10-15 $, or maybe even a famicom consol. 

[gorgyrip]

i think it looks very nice.

[L___E___T]

True, the final solution looks much nicer than those NES converters with the ribbon I think.

[komorebi]

Thank you!

I'm thinking about the possibility of making more and selling them for people who are having trouble finding them. What would be a decent price that I could sell them at? The only thing I would do differently is probably used a saw next time, it took two days and many breaks to cut and whittle down the cart. Plus I got two huge blisters on my fingers from the pliers.