D-Lite's mod chip

[SignOfZeta]

Well I installed it. Kinda took a while. Seems to work perfectly. I only have one US HuCard, but all the Japanese stuff still works. I did have some glitchery with Sapphire, but I think the Arcade Card just wasn't seated correctly. I remember having graphical weirdness with that game before.

[nat]

Yeah Sapphire will have graphical garbage if the Arcade Card isn't seated right.

[Turbo D]

Wow, those are some thick ass wires you used! lol. Maybe thats the problem.

[SignOfZeta]

That's 20 gauge, as oposed to D-Lite's recomended 22 gauge. Neither are "thick", in my opinion, and neither are going to cause problems due to their size.

I should clarify that I only had that problem once. I'm certain it was just that the HuCard wasn't seated right.

[Michael Helgeson]

Yea,the gauge is fine. Id rather use something along the lines of  a stripped 40 wire ata cable because its easier to work with though. Over all looks really nice. Good job

[termis]

Holy shit, just looking at that starts giving me nightmares of soldering all those damn little wires when I modded my Duo & CoreGrafx.

My soldering skills aren't all that great, so it took awhile to get all those little sunnavoabitches to stay on tight and not pop loose.  And using the IC chip requires even MORE soldering & wires than using the straight 8PDT switch! 

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, but the extra wires are a snap to run.

[ceti alpha]

Dang! Nice job Zeta.

[FM-77]

Wow, can you even close the thing up after that? Why did you install it like that?

[SignOfZeta]

What do you mean, "like that"?

Yes, its closed up just fine. Its going to be a bit tougher when I do this to my OG PC Engine though.

[spenoza]

Welp, for the PCE, use thinner, shorter wires 

[FM-77]

"Like that" = not particularly tidy. Looks like wires could come off rather easily. Especially when you close it up.

I would suggest placing the chip onto the board next to the connector and solder short wires to it, like this:

[D-Lite]

Nice works SoZ.  Glad it works nicely for ya.

Couple notes:
- I use the thin wrapping wire you can buy.  I believe it's 30 gauge.
- I may have done the supplying this time, but please remember it's Ben Moran's (grahf) PCB design.  I can only take credit for carrying the torch

[Game-Tech.US]

FM-77 what is that in your pic?

[FM-77]

PS2 modchip installation...Xeno PS. It's a cheap clone of a much more expensive chip, but it works well, so I always use it.