2011-01-18

Repairing a Super Magicom

Category: Console modifications — Eivind @ 19:33

It has been a very long time since i did a post now. I’ve been so occupied by school that i have had no time to do anything that i really wanted to do.. but anyway.

some tiny words about the super magicom. Back in the 90s when the super nintendo / super famicom came to market. Our friends in China, Hong Kong were amongst the biggest software pirates on home consoles (and still are, more or less). There were made a HUGE amount of different units to do this, also known as backup units. I collect these, and have MANY in my collection. Just recently i got a Super Magicom. For those of you who download snes roms from the net, you’ll always see a .SMC extension, yes, this is because they were usually dumped with this unit (it could even dump the special games using FX/SFX chip and so on).

BUT, the effen seller that sold me this unit had not tried it, and guess what, the litium battery inside had leaked and damaged a lot of the PCB. So, i had to be inventive and do something about it. this is the result!

first, battery leak on one side:

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most of the area from above

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Happily the acid had only damaged the ground line, so without a new battery, i re-wired it like this:

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and restultzzzzzzz

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This is how it looks like all assembled back together:

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YAY

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