Shawn Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 I built a 7800 into a heavy sixer shell many moons ago and I recently got the itch to build another one. Here are a couple pics of the beginnings of my work on this. Thought some of you might want to see these. There is a shit ton of work to go but you will get the general idea when you see all I have removed from the 7800 board to be rewired to the 2600 switch panel, power, controller ports,ect. All have to be rerouted to the proper spots on the sixer shell. The bottom half the 2600 shell needs tons of dremiling to properly house the 7800 motherboard. Hardest part of this is getting the edge connector attached firmly and lined up properly but I've done it before so I can do it again Right now the cart glide you see is just sitting at the angle I want, it's not attached yet. I'm toying with the options of using a PCB and soldering the angles for stability or hand wiring from the motherboard up to the edge connector and having the glide enter from the top so any preasure form the cart goes to the shell and not the board. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0078265317 Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Nice jpb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 And some people flipped out over the idea of modding a Heavy Sixer into having RGB... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 24, 2018 Author Share Posted January 24, 2018 And some people flipped out over the idea of modding a Heavy Sixer into having RGB... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Man, that's a ton of work alright - nice job! Pretty cool, especially if you happened to have a good 7800 board with a shitty shell and a busted 2600 board with a nice shell. haha Regarding the cartridge slot... imagine you're also hacking it so Imagic and other goofily shaped carts fit? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 25, 2018 Author Share Posted January 25, 2018 Man, that's a ton of work alright - nice job! Pretty cool, especially if you happened to have a good 7800 board with a shitty shell and a busted 2600 board with a nice shell. haha Regarding the cartridge slot... imagine you're also hacking it so Imagic and other goofily shaped carts fit? I've got some extra cart glides that imagic and activison carts fit in just fine. So yes that is being addressed for sure. Building this for second time it's going a lot smoother than the first time I made one. I'm just chipping away at it when I feel up to it. I'm in no rush to get it done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Does this mean it is more fully functional for 2600 games? Like does the tv type switch pause when flipping back and forth on 7800 games but still can be put in either position on 2600 games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanthWader Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 This is awesome, I have an extra sears heavy I thought about doing this to. I also have an extra xbox one shell I thought about putting it in just not sure how to deal with the carts, maybe ribbon the socket to the front...? who knows maybe in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Does this mean it is more fully functional for 2600 games? Like does the tv type switch pause when flipping back and forth on 7800 games but still can be put in either position on 2600 games? Yes, the color switch will be left as it should be for 2600 game use as well. For 7800 pause use you just push it down then back up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Might as well install speakers in there as Atari Inc had intended to do with the Heavy Sixers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamrodHare Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 I really like this. I'd love to have a Sixer that played 2600 and 7800 games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 Looks like a Hozer hackjob. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 29, 2018 Author Share Posted January 29, 2018 Playing around with making a template to build the cart glide support. I put the switch panel bezel on and then measured the angles to cut out on cardboard. I cut out some plastic from a chip tube to back it with and attached it to the cardboard template to see how it stood up. The cart glide will be inline with the original footprint on the 7800 motherboard so it can be screwed in place for stability using the original holes. When adding this cart glide support I'll just be securing it differently to adjust for the height and angle difference in each. I used some medical tape over the cardboard so it can stand up to playing with it a little while I figure out what I'm doing with it. Here is a couple rough pics. One with the cardboard template in the console and a couple others of the design and then the cart glide with the support template sitting as it will when finished. I don't know if I'm going for one long piece or 2 smaller peices for this support. I will try both. I think you will get the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryoder Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 Cool. I posted this idea on the atariage Facebook page too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Atari Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 This is really, really cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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