I just ran across a video on youtube showing vacuum forming of cartridge inserts for Ixion and was wondering if these will be available for purchase. I bought some custom 7800 boxes from Retro Games Shop and I'm not digging the card board inserts. Also, will these be made for 5200 boxes as well?
Thanks for the reply. I went ahead and purchased 10 dead game boards along with 1 socketed board from B&C. I plan on using the socketed board to test the eproms as you suggested. I've got the eproms burned and mounted on the socketed board. Only needed to use Jiffi and romsplit to prepare the binary. Burned the hi and lo eproms with my GQ-4X without problem. I found that I didn't need the additional power adapter to burn the eproms. Not sure if that is an anomoly or not. Eproms burned and verified twice without issue. I haven't had a chance to test it yet though. The pesky kid has been hogging the TV that the Jag is hooked up to. Thanks for this guide. Don't have a skunk and this is the only way I can play around with the ST conversions released lately.
With regards to the game pcbs, myatari offers both eprom pcbs as well as dead game boards. Do you recommend one over the other? If using a dead game board, do you recommend replacing all chips including ram?