custom TRON atari cart

[jediknight0]

A few of you have seen my custom TRON atari joysticks discussed here in this topic. Those are part of a bigger atari 2600 TRON mod still in-progress here:

 

http://mods.xkill.net/WIP/index.html

 

As part of this mod, I purchased the 2 TRON atari games - "TRON deadly disks" and "Adventures of TRON". Both worked fine, but lived in boring cartridge cases. An added complication was the fact that Mattel didn't use standard atari-sized ROMs (scrap plastic on left, atari ROM in middle, Mattel ROM on right):

 

 

A little work with a a photoshop wanna-be program, a color laser printer, some spray adhesive, and a soldering iron and I ended up with these:

 

 

Of course, these "glow" as any good TRON item should...

 

 

What does everyone think?

[Mindfield]

Sweet!

 

Except it's spelled "Discs."

 

Not the first illuminated carts to be done, but most appropriately they're TRON carts, and if anything deserved an illuminated acrylic shell it's those games.

[Foxsolo2000]

Could you do those labelling for anyone if they requested it?

[+Nathan Strum]

Very sweet, indeed!

[ATARIPITBULL]

They look great! I love them.

 

[Atari Rescue Group]

Those are nice.

[Vic George 2K3]

Now if you can only do it for the Intellivision TRON carts...

[yuppicide]

They do look sweet except for the "disks" error.

[gulag picture radio]

So I'm guessing that the lights get power from the cartridge slot, right? I guess I'd hate to learn that they're powered by those CR2302 that seem to power everything these days.

[Albert]

Looks good! I produced a run of lit, Tron-related carts of this nature for Neotokeo not too long ago. These were for his "Tronman" hack:

 

 

 

The full thread is http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76627

 

You should take a picture of one of your lit carts alongside one of your joysticks in a dark room. That would look quite cool.

 

..Al

[gulag picture radio]

Son of a buscuit! How did I miss the avaialbility of light up carts??????

[AtariAger]

Son of a buscuit!  How did I miss the avaialbility of light up carts??????

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Same here!...

[jediknight0]

Except it's spelled "Discs."

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DOH! You're right, of course. New labels made, applied, and pictures updated.

 

 

Could you do those labelling for anyone if they requested it?

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Hmmm... Not sure I'd want to do that, but I'd be happy to share the graphics and some tips with anyone. The file is a Visio file...

 

 

So I'm guessing that the lights get power from the cartridge slot, right?  I guess I'd hate to learn that they're powered by those CR2302 that seem to power everything these days. 

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It is powered off the cart slot. With all that power there, why not use it? Using batteries would actually be harder, since I'd have to have a battery holder and some way to change the batteries.

 

 

Looks good!  I produced a run of lit, Tron-related carts of this nature for Neotokeo not too long ago. 

 

You should take a picture of one of your lit carts alongside one of your joysticks in a dark room.  That would look quite cool. 

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I actually had the idea of lighted carts before I ever saw your cart, but credit where credit is due - you had the idea and implemented it before I ever did. Nice job on your cart, of course. I noticed the lighting was off-center in your pic - was that on purpose or by design? For my carts, I made the light off-center on purpose so that the word "TRON" lights up a little brighter than the rest - thus, the blue cart has the light on the left and the red cart has the light on the right.

 

Good idea about the pics. How about this: