Inserting carts with broken pokey things...

[Cybergoth]

Hi there!

 

...how do you do that easy and safe?

 

Just received Secret Quest with one of the things broken, so I can't insert it

 

Greetings,

Manuel

[+Omegamatrix]

Manuel,

 

Take some plastic stirsticks and insert them into your 2600 port on the side which the broken tab would go into. Trim them down so they are short enough not to touch the game, but long enough to pull back out. Now you should be able to put the game in?

[+FujiSkunk]

If all else fails, you can use a 7800.

[JagFan422]

or take the cart apart and just remove it all together so that just the game cart is showing. There are a few manufacturers that didn't use that thing altogether.

 

Actually don't do that, you'll ruin the label because the screw should be under the label. Unless you don't have a label on the cart.

Edited February 7, 2006 by JagFan422

[Cybergoth]

Take some plastic stirsticks and insert them into your 2600 port on the side which the broken tab would go into. Trim them down so they are short enough not to touch the game, but long enough to pull back out. Now you should be able to put the game in?

 

Ok, I'll try that!

 

or take the cart apart and just remove it all together so that just the game cart is showing.  There are a few manufacturers that didn't use that thing altogether.

 

Oh no, it's not that the cart is not opening, it's the VCS PCB slot that is not opening.

 

Actually don't do that, you'll ruin the label because the screw should be under the label.  Unless you don't have a label on the cart.

 

Hm... well there's worse things than visible screws. Maybe I should try transplanting the inner plastic things from a spare red label cartridge? Is that an easy fix to do, for someone as lefthanded as me?

[crunchysuperman]

A 2600 jr. will work, won't it?

[CPUWIZ]

Is that an easy fix to do, for someone as lefthanded as me?

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Nö.

[Cybergoth]

*sigh*

 

I assume especially since those noses are part of the shell-half where the label is attached?

 

*throwsawaybitsandpiecesofajunglehuntcartridge*

[CPUWIZ]

*sigh*

 

I assume especially since those noses are part of the shell-half where the label is attached?

 

 

Yup.

[Cybergoth]

Well, I cut out a nose from the JH cartridge, so that will do for the moment...

[Atari-Jess]

for someone as lefthanded as me?

 

If you aren't actually left handed I take offence.

 

[Cybergoth]

I'm actually both

 

Not too long ago I rewired the fire buttons of the C64 DTV, so I can finally use it now

[A.J. Franzman]

Just an FYI to everyone, the things that stick into the cart and into the cart port to open them up and allow the cart to be fully plugged in are called KEYS.

[Starhopper]

Take some plastic stirsticks and insert them into your 2600 port on the side which the broken tab would go into. Trim them down so they are short enough not to touch the game, but long enough to pull back out. Now you should be able to put the game in?

 

Ok, I'll try that!

 

or take the cart apart and just remove it all together so that just the game cart is showing.  There are a few manufacturers that didn't use that thing altogether.

 

Oh no, it's not that the cart is not opening, it's the VCS PCB slot that is not opening.

 

Actually don't do that, you'll ruin the label because the screw should be under the label.  Unless you don't have a label on the cart.

 

Hm... well there's worse things than visible screws. Maybe I should try transplanting the inner plastic things from a spare red label cartridge? Is that an easy fix to do, for someone as lefthanded as me?

 

Not a problem--I had to transplant a Solaris chip into a new cart, and it came off without a hitch