Can Jaguar Carts Be Recycled?

[Shawn]

Hey All,

 

I want to build myself a copy of Space War 2000 and instead of tracking down a EPROM board I was wondering if it is feasable to recycle and existing cart and what games are the best suited donors for this surgery. A schematic would be aces too

 

Thanks A Ton,

 

Shawn Sr.

[+LS650]

Yes. You could take a common, (people usually scrifice the pack-in Cybermorph or a crappy common like DD5/Dragon) and reuse the board and shell. Others have done this with limited reproduction releases such as Arena Football or the Fight For Life beta release.

[Zerosquare]

A schematic would be aces too

Thank Matthias Domin !

 

Images of some Jaguar Cartridge PCBs

Schematic of Cartridge for use with EPROMs or FLASH-ROMs

 

(the page is here)

Edited November 25, 2006 by Zerosquare

[Shawn]

A schematic would be aces too

Thank Matthias Domin !

 

Images of some Jaguar Cartridge PCBs

Schematic of Cartridge for use with EPROMs or FLASH-ROMs

 

(the page is here)

 

 

Thanks for the links, thats good info. Did you notice on the 2 chip board that he cut the trace to VCC on the pcb from forcefuly desoildering it? Hope that one was just for pics!!

 

 

 

[Bruce Tomlin]

Thanks for the links, thats good info. Did you notice on the 2 chip board that he cut the trace to VCC on the pcb from forcefuly desoldering it? Hope that one was just for pics!!

That happens. You just have to make sure to inspect the board and use a meter to find broken traces, then repair them with 30ga wire-wrap wire. It's best if you do this before soldering the socket in, because then you can stick one end of the wire through the IC pin hole.