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Yup, if you have the cartridge sticking out the back it's a necessity to reinforce it.

I found out a way to reinforce the cart slot. The SNES Mini has a screwed in "reinforcement" (shown in the above picture), and that is what I will be using.

As for redesigning... I will probably go with CT's ...

Well I finally opened up the snes mini and found the nicely spifified guts....

And I took a pic



I shall start figuring out a way to make a nice shell for it to portablize

I'm still curious as to why you're so dead-set on having this thing be a laptop if it's going to be more trouble than it's worth...

I'm not really dead-set on making it a laptop, I thought the idea seemed cool and I didn't like how the cart slot stuck out extreme amounts in the other portables I ...

No, I admit, I do not have the knowledge to make this, which is why I'm tackling it in my mind and on this forum before going out and trying it straight on.

For a clarification, when I say laptop, I mean something that I can sit on my lap and play snes, not something that I could run windows or ...

Is there any way I could make it a slot loader? Like an old time Tape drive?

I was thinking about making an SNES Laptop and this is what I have so far, using an SNES Mini board, and if I could get one to work, a nice Laptop screen. If that doesn't work, I will go with something more simple.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/Kitazawa/SNESSchematic.jpg

Yay Paint ...