Do all gyromites have a converter inside?

nintendo2600 · Post by **nintendo2600** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 2:48 pm

Hey,

Do all cartridges of gyromite have a 60 to 72 pin inside them?

Shawn

Post by **Memblers** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:03 pm

No. I'm not sure how to tell besides weight, and even then the difference is pretty small (use a scale?).

nintendo2600 · Post by **nintendo2600** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:34 pm

Memblers wrote:No. I'm not sure how to tell besides weight, and even then the difference is pretty small (use a scale?).

crappy buzz

I got a line on a big lot of gyromite carts for dirt cheap but I'd only want them for the the adaptors. I don't want to tip off the guy that I want them for something "special" or he could be likely to jack the price up if he thinks they could be worth anything more than $2 bucks a cart as he is a reseller and we all know resellers will jack up a price at the change of the weather if they think they can.

What about the 5 screw thing? Even that isn't totally reliable is it? The 5 screw carts are earlier pressings but who knows which ones are from when the Big N ran out of 72 pin boards.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:34 pm

nintendo2600 wrote:What about the 5 screw thing? Even that isn't totally reliable is it?

Nope... My cart has 5 screws... no adapter.

EDIT: BTW, my cart is a Gyromite.

Celius · Post by **Celius** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:18 pm

I don't think there's really any reliable way to tell if there's a converter inside. I bought a cart that had all the signs of having a converter in it, and I opened it only to be disappointed. I just got lucky after buying another candidate cart. I think I bought Stack-Up first, no luck, then got one after ordering Gyromite.

Drag · Post by **Drag** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:34 pm

I also have Gyromite, in the cart style that hinges, rather than separates into two halves, and no converter in mine either.

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:44 am

Here we go:

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/edit ... nvert.html

This picture pretty much sums it up:

B00daW · Post by **B00daW** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:31 pm

Hrm... That's useful. I wonder how I didn't know that beforehand. I got mine out of a Gyromite by weight, but that's not accurate and have bought a few without converters while searching. Nice.

AWal · Post by **AWal** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:12 am

Shoot, now that I look at the NES-JOINT board and my other NROM boards, the connector key tab thing's a definite determinator other than weight. Woud've never noticed that...

rbudrick · Post by **rbudrick** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:32 pm

The connector fingers trick has been on (I think) The Warp Zone for years, iirc. I thought it was common knowledge.

Just for the hell of it, does anyone have a gram scale and both versions? I'd love to see if there was a siginificant weight difference.

-Rob

HappehLemons · Post by **HappehLemons** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:03 pm

No Carrier wrote:Here we go:

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/edit ... nvert.html

This picture pretty much sums it up:

This is the best and only 100% sure way to know without opening the game. I've found 3 gryomite carts with famicom converts using this method and only paid a total of $6 for all of them.

Although, you can use this for other games too. If the game is a 5 screw and has side tabs it prolly has a famicom converter in it. There's a list floating around that has all of the games that could have famicom converters in them.

The only game that always has a famicom converter in it is Stack Up.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:32 am

I wasn't aware I had so many converters just laying on my collection!

Now to find converters that go the other way. You could theoretically build one out of the ones in those carts because it appears it has two female connectors and then a famicom pcb slips in one end and a small pcb with lockout chip on it slips in the other end. All you would need is to make a 60-pin PCB that fits into it and make it long enough to bring the connector up out of the Famicom's case.