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Cryomancer
08-07-2005, 09:45 AM
I've got a couple of the official sega 4x cards for Dreamcast now, and I was thinking of delegating one of them to be just for PAL games. This got me thinking how awesome it would be if the lights would light up in blue. I've seen inside of them before, and the lights were really tiny things that seemed to be part of the board, so I was wondering if anyone knew, or could quickly theorize, how simple making this happen could be.

Are the lights in these things something that can be replaced? Where would one FIND blue ones? Could something be done with the clear plastic parts to make it illuminate in blue instead, despite the light being orange?

Or is there a PAL version of these that ARE blue and I should just look for one of those?
Logicdustbin
08-07-2005, 10:18 AM
do you want to do this?

http://devcast.dcemulation.com/mods/mainled/led.php
InsaneDavid
08-08-2005, 01:11 AM
do you want to do this?

http://devcast.dcemulation.com/mods/mainled/led.php

No, I'm pretty sure Cryomancer meant the little indicator lights on the 4X memory card. They denote what "page" of memory you are on, correct? As for the LED's themselves I think they're that little surface mount crap like you said and I'm not sure where you would pick up additional ones or what they are rated for.

Possibly a picture of one in the thread to avoid confusion would help.
Cryomancer
08-08-2005, 10:53 AM
Yeah, I mean the 4x cards, picture of one can be seen here: http://dreamcast-talk.com///DSCF0311.JPG

I am afraid this is something crazy impossible just due to the lack of parts, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
phreak97
08-09-2005, 10:09 AM
it's not that crazy or impossible, you will however need ALOT of practice soldering surface mound before you try it, and will probably have to find a broken mobile phone with blue leds in it as a donor.. i have a certificate saying i can do that shit, but it's very difficult without the propper tools.
MrKitt
08-13-2005, 12:02 PM
depending where you live you can order the leds from one of the following shops

usa radioshack
europe (not all) elfa.se