AES Cart Barely Fits into Slot

Splitt442 · Sep 20, 2012

Problem is being resolved, thanks again for your advice though.

Xian Xi · Sep 20, 2012

The cart PCB guide is probably upside down. Open the cart and flip it.

Splitt442 · Sep 20, 2012

Hmmm, is that something somebody relatively inexperienced could handle? I paid a lot of money for this game and I'm afraid of ruining it. Would it be beneficial to practice on a cheap cart first?

Xian Xi · Sep 20, 2012

I'd send it back to the seller to fix so if he breaks it then you get your money back. You need a special tool to open the cart to not put stress marks on the plastic. Not for first timers.

What cart is it? Can you snap a pic of the cart bottom?

Splitt442 · Sep 20, 2012

It's Sengoku 3, I just bought it from the Neo Store, I'll take a pic in a sec.

Splitt442 · Sep 20, 2012

Cant get my camera to upload the pic right now, I'll have to handle it after work.

Thanks for your help so far, I appreciate it!

Splitt442 · Sep 20, 2012

Cant get my camera to upload the pic right now, I'll have to handle it after work.

Thanks for your help so far, I appreciate it!

GohanX · Sep 20, 2012

Just thought i'd comment that I agree, I have a Neo Turf Masters conversion with the PCB guide in upsidedown, it does the same thing.

Question is... why does a Sengoku 3 have that issue???

Xian Xi · Sep 20, 2012

Maybe someone opened it to verify it was legit then put it back wrong.

GohanX · Sep 20, 2012

That sounds plausible. The Neostore wouldn't knowingly sell a bootleg, and if a bootlegger was going to do a newer game they probably wouldn't pick Sengoku 3.

Splitt442 · Sep 21, 2012

Here are those photos I promised. I've already decided to accept a refund, but I figured I'd upload these for good measure.

Xian Xi · Sep 21, 2012

It's the right way, the posts are just not snapped in. Just squeeze both sides of the cart (Front and Back) until they snap in.

SNKorSWM · Sep 21, 2012

GohanX said:
That sounds plausible. The Neostore wouldn't knowingly sell a bootleg, and if a bootlegger was going to do a newer game they probably wouldn't pick Sengoku 3.

Yeah, they'd pick the 161-in-1 AES multicart to sell in the neostore instead. XD

Splitt442 · Sep 22, 2012

Xian Xi said:
It's the right way, the posts are just not snapped in. Just squeeze both sides of the cart (Front and Back) until they snap in.

Hey Xian, I appreciate the suggestion but I think it would have taken more pressure than I was comfortable applying so I decided to ship the game back for a refund. Not being 100% certain of the actual problem I felt it would have been too big a gamble to try and fix the cart and risk breaking it or losing my refund.

Thanks for your help in this thread man!,

Scott

SNKNostalgia · Sep 23, 2012

This tends to be a problem with some AES carts from 1999-2000. My US Mark of the Wolves was bulged out a bit until I pushed it in kinda hard. My Metal Slug 3 also had this problem. I had to carefully open it and I could see that the glue on the posts were keeping it from snapping in. I had to actually slightly file down the hardened glue. I think it is a better idea to open a cart carefully and do this fix than to have the worse insert marks ever.

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