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Okay, so just finished installing this. 1. SO AWESOME. No SERIOUSLY. Do it, do it now. 2. I would recommend the IDC cabling option for the LCD to Lynx connections. Makes it much easier and a little neater. 3. I was 50/50 on the VGA connection, but did it anyway. It looks good and works amazingly. I would recommend going with a black plug if you can get it, as it looks a little more built in. 4. DEFINITELY only cut the side of the Lynx without the lettering on it. for the VGA plug, it is easier, ends up being more flush and nice-looking. Thankfully, I had a dead Lynx I could experiment on before hand. 5. The solder work is easy. Took me a little longer than I wanted since I misquote the IDC cable and made it too short. I sued the Ethernet cable trick for the VGA wiring and some electrical tape to put them together after I was done. BTW: You should just solder pins 6-7-8 together with one wire coming out of pin 7. The instructions imply that you should connect 8 wires to the VGA jack and that is not the case. 6. Remember that you need to connect the backlight pin on the mod to pin 2 on the chip itself, *not* the test point on the motherboard that is connected by two traces. All in all an AMAZING mod with pretty decent install.

So you only put a cable on pin 7 for ground? The directions seem to imply that you should be connecting 8 wires to the VGA port, but there are only 6 connections. Does it matter which one of those to use 6, 7, or 8?

So 15w iron? I have been soldering for quite awhile, but am not the neatest always, so am trying to prepare in advance. Suggestions for cutting the case for the VGA port? Thanks

I was NOT prepared for the ending of that video.

I was actually considering setting up what I needed to burn on a regular basis. Between these home-brews and other systems without a SD card cart, it might be worth it (and very convenient). Does anyone have a list of the best/better models needed? Thanks

Same here. I mean, I did not get a bounce, so I am hopeful.

What gauge wire did you use? Solid or stranded? Any tips? Mine is sitting there begging me to do it.

Transformers?

Fair enough. I think if people are bidding crazy money for carts on eBay, you probably could sell 100, but that's just me talking I suppose. I will take one of each anyway and appreciate the work you are doing.

May I ask what the decision gate is on the number of units? Is it funding? What would it take to make, say, 100 units?

I will DEFINITELY take one.

My god! It's full of stars!

So, I have been merrily burning CD-Rs of all of the home-brews I can find and all of the ST ported goodness that Cyrano has been putting out, but I cannot for the LIFE of me, figure out how to burn the RAW files I have found. cdrecord just does not work under windows 8.1 even with the ASPI driver installed. Any thoughts of how to burn, for example, this? Thanks

This is AWESOME! Congrats! Color me ready to buy the CD version!

Let me put my name down for pre-ordering any and all!

'Merica!

Man, these are all AWESOME and thank you thank you thank you. If you are ever without work, Death Sword would make my decade. Seriously.

5GBP sent. Awesome sauce.

Bernd Thomas has the Flash cart, Yastuna 1 & 2, and Solitaire. I got his email from AtariAge. Matthias Aschenbrenner sold me (and wrote) Lynxopoly. He is also on AA. They should be in the AA database. Not sure why not.

Nice. Well, at least I will be learning something?

So, all works now. Not sure what happened, but I disconnected it again. Cleaned everything (again) and reseated it. Now everything works. In fact, CD-Rs that were not working before without a bypass cart no all work fine. It's weird, but I don't care: they work.

Okay, so here's the results of the cleaning and the testing: 1. Still only works without the CD attached. 2. Every other cart works fine. No problems whatsoever. 3. The JagCD is practically brand new, so there cannot be anything IN the slot. Other thoughts?

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY! I got two packages today. Both were filled with Lynx goodness! Lynxopoly: AWESOME! I may be late to this party but DAMN, this is a very nice version. The place names are cool and it plays so well, I was almost through an entire game before I realized I was just going to "test it out." Thankfully, I saved the game and will pick it up later. The cart, casing, manual are so very well done, I HIGHLY recommend you get yourself a copy! Yastuna 1 & 2: In the same kind of cases and JUST as professionally done as Lynxoply. SO impressed, I got these from Bernd Thomas and they are so very nice. Also from Bernd: Solitaire! This is an EXCELLENT version of the game. There was also a nice surprise: the Silly Venture 2k14 event cart! So cool. I wish I had know about 5 months ago! I might have gone! The Flash Cart looks very cool and is operating according to all parameters! Could not ask for a better delivery. One last package is coming (soon, I hope! :-)) and that is the VGA/LCD Lynx II upgrade. I cannot wait to see all of these on the new LCD screen!

Okay, so I have Double Feature coming from 16/32, but am a little confused as to which ones can be ordered from Matthias since it only lists Double Feature on the web site. I have been out of the Jag for awhile (I bought mine brand new from Don Thomas on release date two weeks after release date for $225), but got back in when I realized there had been so much new activity and I am trying to catch back up. (I should mention it was *not* Don's fault that Atari took all of the inventory he had set aside for the pre-order folks and sent them to retailers).