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    Lol, I'm not really sure on the cart shell design. I personally like to make things look modern / clean rather than mimic the original, however I am aware a lot of people like things to look like the original carts.

     

    Well in that case, if you could make it so that the screws don't hide behind the label like official Jag carts that'd be great. Only in the interest of disassembly to thoroughly clean the cartridge contacts, personally.

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    I rigged a quick connection during lunch to hook up audio and composite video and the flickering bars were gone, so it must be either the RF modulator or the coaxial switch. This issue may be fixed by replacing the system's capacitors later which I intend to do when I have the time, but I wanted to jot this down in case anyone ever comes across the same problem.

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    Just had a nice condition Jaguar come in this week and I was finally able to test it today, here's my issue:

     

    While running Cybermorph, pressing the d-pad and the action buttons at any point (title, demo or playing) makes the display flicker with a horizontal bar of interference randomly across the screen. Have tried two different power supplies and also two different controllers, as well as two different CRT displays. All I have at the moment is the RF switch for video, I would have to make my own a/v or s-video cable otherwise. It was noticeably noisier and more frequent when I initially turned the system on but it's become more subdued, though still frequent and noticeable. I have confirmed the system still has its internal shielding.

     

    I could take a video later if necessary and post it on youtube, I am wondering if anyone has encountered this issue before and got to the bottom of it? My initial guess is that the capacitors may need to be replaced especially because it was way more obvious early on until the console was run for a while longer, hence the failing caps eventually warming up.

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    Interesting fact. MMX3 is essentially MMX w/out the Capcom chip. For the hell of it take a MMx3 rom, program it, and toss on a donor cart. You will get MMX.

     

    I've read that MMX3 is basically an in-house romhack of MMX2. It was built on the previous game and remnants of X2 remain in X3's ROM. If either game is run without CX4 support all the sprites come out glitchy and scattered, at least as I remember it in the dark days of SNES emulation before either game was supported. So that co-processor was doing more than just occasional wire-frame graphics.

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    UPS was $28.95 so almost the same but more importantly ups ground is the worse for shipping CRT I worked UPS for 12 years there is no care when handling ground mail. It's like mailing parcel post, to many exchange points. Priority is the preferred method or FedEx

     

    Of this I must agree. Anything large and fragile I would trust FedEx over UPS any day of the week. I don't have too much faith either with the USPS.

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    I forgot to mention. I have a boxed Sega Master System 3D Glasses set. Thanks to the previous buyer (who I'm still dealing with...), the right arm of the glasses have been switched out with one that has a broken peg. The rest is in good shape, with the "glasses" part of the glasses in stellar shape, the broken arm not in good shape, the other arm in good shape, the box in good shape (some tearing, but nothing too bad), manual in ok shape, and all styrofoam WITH the styrofoam lid! I had it for sale for a lot more, but am lowering severely due to the damage that's been inflicted on this rare piece, which really ticks me off.. but I digress. As is, $80

     

    What? What the hell happened here? Did the buyer pull a switcheroo on you?

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    Machined sockets work great if you know what you are doing. Strange that you had connection issues with them. They fit tighter and hold the IC more securely in most cases. I don't use these if the customer doesn't want them.

     

    Machine sockets are terrible to desolder and the expression 'square peg in a round hole' applies very much to flat pins which 99% of ICs have. The only practical application for them imo is for headers made out of round pins...

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    I have no idea how they make any money considering the cost of shipping.

     

    Pretty much because the USA subsidizes imports from China by not regulating/taxing it and also footing most of the bill for postage. Anything paid for 'shipping' is just to get it to the mainland docks, USPS takes over from there. (Oversimplified explanation but you get the idea)

     

    I've never run into fake chips but it has been obvious that various ICs were salvaged parts, evident desoldering on the legs, scuffing, and so on. The economy over there is such that there is an entire industry of product reclamation where circuit boards are broken back down to their basic components, profitable, or at least sustainable. It's also incredibly toxic for those involved with the labor.

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    I would have liked a pair of the controllers because it's essentially brand new parts that could have refurbished a real NES gamepad, the quality is supposedly very high, or at least to the standard you'd expect of Nintendo*. Unfortunately doesn't look like that's going to happen now.

     

    *Nintendo has really cheaped out on manufacturing over the past ten years so they're not what they used to be. Most of the blame having to do with sourcing parts from China almost exclusively now.

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