Easy way to relocating a game port for a portable - GUIDE

[bacteria]

Looking at the chart, looks like I use 30awg wires.

[Ziggy]

In the 80 conductor wires for ATA 66 and faster IDE, only 40 are used for data transmission. The plug is the same as a 40 conductor cable. The extra 40 wires interspersed act as the shielding a bit like the twisting bit of Unshielded Twisted Pair standard ethernet cable works.

Ah, OK, it's shielded. I thought so. That being the case, that should definitely help carry the signal further.

Looking at the chart, looks like I use 30awg wires.

It's hard to tell from pics, but I think you might have slightly heavier gauge than 30AWG. 30AWG is pretty hair thin, looks like you have something like 26 or 28 AWG in those pics. Again, hard to tell.