Why are so many Duos missing the HuCard cover?

[Necromancer]

Careless oafs should be banned from buying video game consoles.

But I like 'em. 

[ceti alpha]

I couldn't imagine my Duo without its HuCARD cover. It has come off on me before, but it's easy enough to put back on.

[nat]

If my HuCard cover ever comes off I'm going to write NEC for a refund.

[vestcoat]

Barney converters need a hole cut or drilled in the lower-left corner to make room for the turbochip lock to slide out with the power switch on a Duo.  Either that or saw off your turbochip lock.

The little piece of flexible plastic on the hucard cover of my first Duo broke upon contact with a flying SNES cartridge but I was able to very carefully super glue it back together.

[SignOfZeta]

Barney converters need a hole cut or drilled in the lower-left corner to make room for the turbochip lock to slide out with the power switch on a Duo.  Either that or saw off your turbochip lock.

The little piece of flexible plastic on the hucard cover of my first Duo broke upon contact with a flying SNES cartridge but I was able to very carefully super glue it back together.

I had to hack a great deal of plastic off the sides to accommodate the Duo's case. Otherwise the converter wouldn't slide in, not even when I threw SNES carts at it.

Maybe there is more than one version of the Barney? Everyone here calls it Barney because of the purple color, but personally I've never even seen a purple one in person. They have all been brown. Maybe with the color revision came a physical one as well?

Here is mine:





Note the Buy-Rite sticker on thing making it even crappier than it already is. Thanks Buy Rite!

[guyjin]

I've never seen one like that. ever.

Note the Buy-Rite sticker on thing making it even crappier than it already is. Thanks Buy Rite!

Indeed.

[Turbo D]

Mine looks exactly the same as Zeta's. Mine even has void gum left from a buyrite sticker.

[SignOfZeta]

I've never seen one like that. ever.

Do you mean hacked apart like that, or a converter like that in general? This was by far the defacto converter back in the day. I didn't see another model until TZD started selling diving boards in 1994 or whenever that was.

Looking at the purple onein this image:



It almost looks like it was revised to work with the OG Duo. It looks like its already missing the plastic structure that I had to hack away on mine. Its the same sticker as mine has though.

[vestcoat]

Wow, I've never seen the brown ones before.  No sense in calling that thing a Barney converter...anyone have any name suggestions for the new "turd converters?"

[SignOfZeta]

Well the sticker on these things (brown purple or otherwise) says, "TV Game Computer Cartridge Converter", and that rolls off the tongue so well I think we should just use that. Or "TVGCCC".

Also, "stupid piece of useless shit that came free with my $130 copy of Street Fighter II' and f*cks up when I try to use an Arcade Card with it".

[Joe Redifer]

It doesn't f*ck up, you just need some skillz with an exacto knife and it will work perfectly.

Open 'er up and slice where indicated:

[nat]

I don't get it... Out of the box do those converters have those pins jumpered or something? Why on earth?

[Mobius]

Wow, I've never seen the brown ones before.  No sense in calling that thing a Barney converter...anyone have any name suggestions for the new "turd converters?"

Nominating "turd converters"

[guyjin]

I nominate "barney turd".

[Mobius]

I nominate "barney turd".

Even better!