Here’s that COTS connector in a shell to help position it correctly. It’s working and I’m playing Bound High on one of my 16Mbit PCBs. Next steps are to try to see if I can get it to work with a regular VB case. Some bonding/gluing that needs to be figured out, as well as some revisions on the frame to add a back cover. I could build my own carts right now with this. I may want to spin the PCBs to use the memory that is in place on HF32 to give the case some more thickness over the chip. I’ll keep playing.

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My 3D printed cases are coming out much cleaner now.

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Fwow13 labels. The red looks beautiful!

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I guess we could just to make sure the black/white/red are there correctly. It would be those three colors stacked on the far right instead of the 4 shades we had previously.

Thinking about picking this project back up. 2 versions. Maybe 3.

1) Just a simple Raspberry Pi case that people can use just because its cool. VB mini case. People can buy just the case.

2) A Pi case setup with Retro Pi as a VB console emulator. VB mini case. I assemble it all. I guess really just an assembled setup version of #1.

3) And then a case for console people who want to use a VB motherboard and Virtual Tap. VB mini case. I could ship with assembled or not.

Maybe with those 3 options I can justify doing this project and getting a printer to do so. I also got permission to use the VB mini case on Thingiverse from the original author. That design is more of a clone of the VB than my version. But it has some design work to make it actually work. It’s actually not useable directly from Thingiverse, I learned.

These are up on Mercari Japan. VB game flyers. Not sure if they’re authentic or not but they claim 1995.

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That’s the idea. It’s just a lot more development work on multiple fronts so I keep pushing it back to work on other things. But feels like 2021 is the year.

I actually have a designed PCB but I never built it. But given HF32 work, I want to go back to the drawing board and change some things.

I believe there’s a new effort on Zelda for VB. Someone playing around in the background. I cannot find the info though. They’re on Discord.

Mumphy, I imagine you like this when you’re working on eInk labels. Amazing.

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HyperFlash32 is a product on its own. I’m the developer.

You’re likely referring to MultiBoy32, which is my plan for a true multicart. Still on the list for 2021 but HF32 is real now and shipping.

These are awesome. Great job!

Thanks Candice! Glad you like the cart. Nice work on the video. Very professional.

Nice! Thanks for posting this.

Very cool. I have a aluminum shell from Tony as well. They’re super cool.

Awesome work. I love the white labels. Thanks for sharing these!

Here’s a COTS connector solution that I just got. It may also work. Mechanically its fine. Electrically it needs biased to one side to make sure the contacts make full contact. Trying to find one with a tighter pin socket to eliminate the biasing. But I could make this work, if I had to.

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And just to update the previous conversations from above, donors are now ~$30 plus shipping and still rising. Doubled in price in less than a year.

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Here is Hedgetrimmers new connector on a cart. Electrically works perfectly. Mechanically my flash chip is too tall since the connector centers the PCB now. However, if I used my flash from HF32, then it would fit in a normal VB case. Very cool stuff.

The connector feels good and sturdy as well. You could make carts with these.

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Here’s the last prize going to RMZK. Thanks everyone for a great contest!

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Maybe post it on PlanetVB?