Friday, 3 June 2011

Constructing the Hard Drive.

Right. The Gamebit came in the post today so I decided to have a go at this. I opened up the cartridge and drilled out/sanded down the peg in the middle. 




I then proceeded to crack open the external hard drive which was no easy task due to the lack of screws. I was still able to pry it open with a screwdriver although there were a few markings on the case (which I didn't want in case I needed to use it for something else).












I then marked out where it stuck out at the bottom and cut the cartridge so that the Mini USB port came out the bottom. Then I cut some small strips of plastic and glued them in place around the hard drive to secure it in position and another one to go over the bottom with a hole for the Mini USB. I found that there were some foam pads in the original hard drive casing which I put in just to make sure it was protected. I then screwed it all together and stuck the new sticker on properly.







For anyone who wants to try out modding this is a pretty good mod on its own if you have any spare NES games kicking about.