Removing cart from game genie

Neo_Weapon · Post by **Neo_Weapon** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:00 am

Has anybody actually successfully remove the cart from the game genie, I'm doing that now and it's hard cause there is a little bit of solder left between the contract and leads that the soldering pump can't take out.

Post by **Skyone** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:10 am

I did it. Just use desoldering copper. Works a lot better.

Neo_Weapon · Post by **Neo_Weapon** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:21 am

Hmm, i don't know what that is, but thanks anyways. I just discovered that using a desoldering pump to get most of the solder out and using tiny tweezers to remove the trace works perfect.

|B| · Post by **|B|** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 11:06 pm

It's also known as "Desoldering braid". It comes on a spool, you place it over what you want to desolder, hit it with the iron, and it sucks the solder into it.

Ah, brings me back to Saturday, September 4, 2004. I spent the sunny afternoon desoldering the connectors from a Game Genie and a "MegaDrive Converter" to build an adapter to play SMS games on my Japanese Master System. The next day, it worked! Nostalgia...

Post by **Skyone** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:13 am

|B| wrote:It's also known as "Desoldering braid". It comes on a spool, you place it over what you want to desolder, hit it with the iron, and it sucks the solder into it.

Ah, brings me back to Saturday, September 4, 2004. I spent the sunny afternoon desoldering the connectors from a Game Genie and a "MegaDrive Converter" to build an adapter to play SMS games on my Japanese Master System. The next day, it worked! Nostalgia...

It works a lot better than the pump. The pump just makes it harder to hold things in place (even with helping hands). What the copper braid does is; because the copper is one of the cheapest and most conductive metals there is, solder sticks to it easily.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:48 am

and when all else fails... use flux! (on the copper braid)