Getting a Game Genie to fit in a Top Loader

[Achika]

Well from what you typed i assumed you've done it before and you could tell me how your experience went..

No, the famicom adapter that I had was too big to fit in my top loader, so I just took the board out of the casing all together. Being very careful with the board, putting the famicom games on it and putting it into the toploader.

Using that experience, I was wondering if you could just remove the black (or gold in another case) casing from the Game Genie and just have the inner boards. That would be less work than shaving the edges, testing and reworking them. Instead of putting the board back in the case to protect it, just use a static proof back that m/b are shipped in.

Hmm...now I'm curious.....perhaps I'll find a GG to sac this weekend....

[grimlock16]

i finally got through a white out here in ohio and got home.. i got my black game genie i've been triming let me take a look here.

[grimlock16]

I took off all the edges now.. i dont' know whats holding it together now.. these black pegs are glued together i think.. still trying.

[grimlock16]

congrats it's off.. all i see now is a black circle (probly the processor under a coating. .think i scrated something when i was using my side cutters be carefull).. i see a disc capacitor and a normal capacitor.

attempting to plug in brb.

nope still won't fit.. can't even get it to go anywhere close to going in the connector of the toploader.

[grimlock16]

FFFFFFFFFFFFF

won't even budge an 1/118 of an inch.. F

Theres not even much to trim on the edge of the adapter so i dont' know if it's too thick or if it's too wide..

[grimlock16]

THIS SUCKS>>>


Too make matter worse i have no idea which side is which now.. can anyone who has the sides cut off of their black game genie tell me which sides the capacitors are facing? I don't know what to do now... i can't figure out what to do now..

[grimlock16]

I pushed that thing in with all my force and couldnt get it to budge.

[grimlock16]

well using two screwdrivers i put them through support holes in the pcb and litterly gamed it in.. i'm afriad if i push any more it may damage the toploader.. i just don't know.. i don't even know if its facing the right way if someone could tell me which way the capacitors are facing or which side of the GG its on please let me kow

[grimlock16]

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

[grimlock16]

I SEE THE GAME GENIE SCREEN>>> I SEE THE LIGHT>>>>>>

PRESSSING START>>> ABOY AND HIS BLOB SCREENN THANK GOD>>>

ONE WORD OF ADVICE.. THIS MAY BE A ONE TIME DEAL YOU GET IT IN YOU HAVE TO LEAVE IT IN... i DON'T KNOW IF IT RUINED MY CONNECTORS OR NOT YET.. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO REMOVE IT.. GOTTA FIND SOME CODES QUICK TO TEST IF gg WORKS.

[nesman85]

well, congrats on finally getting it to work.

[jonjandran]

Glad to see you got it to work.

There's nothing like the feeling after several hours or days of work to get that DAMN thing working.

[norkusa]

Good grief. After reading what you had to go thru to get the Genie to work, I would have spent the $150 on the adapter to avoid the hassle. x_x

[grimlock16]

i'm not rich i barely have money to put gas in my car after my factory job hit a slump for the past 5 months.. i haven't really had any work..

I think it may be a one time instal though. if i remove it i'm afraid it may not play another game again.. i don't know but i had to use an EXTREME amount of force to try to get it in

[Bratwurst]

You get a gold star, grimlock16.

[nesuser2]

Just a few things. I'm curious about this black game genie.....I really can't say I've ever seen one anywhere. Anybody have any pics or links or anything?

Anyways, where do you live? Don't have to be specific......just a region. I'm chillin on the Grand lake!!St. Marys

[LazingBlazers]

Just what the hell did you do, Grimlock?

It shouldn't matter now, because you got it to fire up, but the diodes/capacitors/whateverthehelltheyare are facing down or towards the back of your NES game pak if it were inserted properly into the Game Genie. I trashed by no cost black GG out of curiosity for you. Why didn't you just feel for holes and take a screwdriver and take the thing apart that way? You'd obviously trash the label, but who cares? I didn't. Take a look at the pic of the Top Loader on this page with the game in it:

http://nintendope.iodized.net/articles/av.php

When I took my black GG apart down to just the board, the board is not as wide as a NES Game Pak. By the way that Maniac Mansion is inserted into that Top Loader, a bare black GG board should fit no problem in your unit. I can't independently verify this (I sold my Top Loader months ago (which was brand new *useless bragging plug*)), but if you haven't done so... strip your GG down to nothing and I can't fathom why it would fit stiff and need strong physical exertion/pressure to fit into your system.

[LazingBlazers]

Just a few things. I'm curious about this black game genie.....I really can't say I've ever seen one anywhere. Anybody have any pics or links or anything?

It's got the same model number as the gold Game Genie. PM me (or post) your email addy and I can email you some pics I originally took for Grimlock. I don't really know anything else about it. I can sell you mine shipped Priority Mail w/ Delivery Conf. for PayPal $5 (if you've got a confirmed addy). It's now got a kind of trashed label, though.

[nesuser2]

well.......i just went and grabbed my spare game genie and tore it down within probably 2 minutes since I had to go get a screw driver. I'll have to see how it works out when I get my toploader back from my friends house

[nesuser2]

got that reply a little bit late. Is it any different than the gold one that I just ripped apart?