Hobie-wan wrote:The plastic spacer for the Model 2 just fills the gap since the case isn't as deep as a model 1. The metal clips mostly just hold the slot open and I think provide extra grounding from interference by touching those metal pads on the 'cart' portion. Neither is particularly important.MentalMan wrote:Hey CFFJR, do you still have the spacer for your 32x? You know, that odd metal thing you put between the Mega Drive and the 32x so it sits steady. Without it, it wiggles around a lot. At least in the MD2 variant, not sure about MD1.
Witchcraft. Never knew they actually can cut down the interference like that. Amazing. But yeah, who uses RF anymore.Assman wrote:Unless you use RF, in which case the clips become practically necessary. Per my experience, when I was still using RF, I dicked around a bit with my 32X trying to lessen the interference, and in doing so, ended up removing the clips in order to gauge the difference in picture quality (intensely BAD/STUPID idea, by the way; I scratched the hell out of the Genny cartridge slot trying to get them out of there). What resulted was a terrible picture, even by RF standards. As it turns out, those clips [can] cut down on a ton of interference.
Then again, nobody uses RF anymore, so it doesn't matter. I just felt like sharing.
@CFFJR
Oh I see, it's the 32x's cart port. Well, If you ever see it becomming worse and have a lot of spare time/patience, you could try re-arranging those pins one by one. Bending them outward again. Here is a little guide for the MD2 itself. I suppose the same would roughly apply to the 32x's port.
But only try this when your port really does become troublesome. It is a annoying thing to fix
(At some point I have to do this to my Snes. The cart's wiggle like crazy and you have to bend each cart a different way to actually get it to work. Now that's when the cart port is worth fixing, and im still too lazy to do it!)
