I just finished making my first-ever repro cart, and I want to put it into a U.S. SNES case with a custom label and everything, but I'm having trouble finding a suitable case because this game uses all three sections of the SNES cart slot. I'm sure there's some repository of knowledge out there where someone has a list of all games that use all three sections of the cart slot, but I'm at a loss for how to do a search for it. "All three sections of the cart slot" doesn't exactly return any useable results. I'm hoping to find something I can buy cheap and gut without ruining something with any collector value.
If you're the guy making a english Star Ocean cartridge from NESDEV, if you didn't see my message there you might want to consider cutting the same grooves in the bottom of the japanese cartridge case that exist in US cases so that it will fit into a US system. This way you'll still have the original label, it'll be english, and it'll work on your system. There aren't alot of games that have cases that use all 3 connections. Many of them are pretty rare/short supply games because they didn't produce that many. And you could always just drill/cut the hole in a normal case if you want to. Even if it doesn't look that great, it's one of the few places someone will never notice.
Yep, that was me. As far as the game fitting in an SNES, I popped the tabs out of one of my SNES systems about 12 years ago so I could play imports, so that's not really an issue for me - I just want to make it look like a US game. I also plan on making a box for it and everything. I was thinking about using a dremel to modify a standard case to allow for the additional two slots, but the problem with that is the little grounding contacts on the side of the cart - they have little guides that keep them in place, and those aren't present on the standard game cases. I could probably glue flat toothpicks to it or something, but it would look like crap and would probably fall apart. I've done some poking around and it looks like I can get a copy of Stunt Race FX for about $5 shipped so I think I'll go that way.
Well, there aren't alot of options really. I suppose to be good you could put Stunt Race FX into the Star Ocean case. Better that than destroying games.
I did have qualms about destroying a working game as well. But maybe this will make you feel better about it. The copy of Stunt Race FX I got was in terrible shape - the label was torn up, and the pin connectors looked like they'd spent a month soaking in cereal they had so much spooge and staining on them. The screws were so coated in gunk that I had to work at them with a toothbrush before I could get the gamebit tool to catch. The little grounding clips were coated thoroughly in rust-there was no chrome left on them. The game wouldn't even play until after I spent 20 minutes scrubbing the connectors clean. There is a reason it was the cheapest copy on Ebay. And I naturally put it in the Star Ocean case - no use wasting a good case or a working game. So I didn't really destroy anything that wasn't destroyed in the first place - except maybe what was left of the Stunt Race FX label. Here is what I ended up with, and I'm pretty happy with it: I designed the label myself (well, I pieced the image together from various sources) and had it printed out by GameReproductions.com. I was surprised at how short the game was - clocked in around 24 hours, though with practice it could probably be finished in 20.
