Hi all.
As we know, one of the difficult and/or expensive parts of a VirtualBoy cartridge to get is the connector. I’ve spent time trying to find a simple solution to the problem.

I share with you a first version, even with small adjustment problems, but it seems to work as it should. The connector is 3D printed in elastic resin, while the pins are donated by a very cheap and common connector.

I’ll keep you posted on the tests 🙂

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Wow! Very nice! Please keep us updated.

And you simply pulled out the pins from the donor connector and put it into your flexible 3d printed connector and soldered them onto the PCB?

I have the new units, and they work properly.
The result depends on several factors, but at least it has worked for me.

The pins come from: https://es.aliexpress.com/item/2041238794.html
– 2×30 2mm female

Resin used: CYB from JLCPCB

I leave you the STL

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Link to the pins is gone. It’d help if you provided Mouser/Digikey options.

Link is working for me here in Germany.

That strip looks nice.
When I was playing with this a few years back I found that sourcing contact pins for the connector was the tricky part, I ended up using a fork type, yours look like they would make a better contact. Just out of interest can you share a photo of one removed from the donor strip?
I never got as far as soldering a strip onto a pcb, would have had to outsource that as my soldering skills are still where they were when I picked up an iron 40 plus years ago, I did manage to piggyback an assembled strip to a cart and tested it worked.
Great to see it all built up and there is no longer a need to break up old carts anymore.

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Sure 😊

I know this kind of pins, maybe the problem with those pins is that the VB ones are round.

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Thanks for the pic.
I have found a photo of a connector I made with round inserts, I think the inserts were quite expensive so ended up with the fork type ones as they were pulled out from really cheap headers.

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