Has anyone ever customized a Saturn cartridge? It would be the Action Replay in my case. This thing is so ugly sticking out of a Black USA Saturn.
I was just thinking of spray panting it black and putting my own sticker on there.
Has anyone ever done this or have some tips?
- Anyone got the Saturn Cart sticker dimensions on hand?
If it's not worth it, I might just buy a 4MB Cart Capcom Cart and use it's housing for the Action Replay, since I like the Capcom Cart appearance the best.
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Re: Customizing A Sega Saturn Cartridge
I painted mine black too, the cartridge.
I did not have a sticker
I did not have a sticker
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In case you had any doubts, I had mine set up like that for a few years, and it does fit without any issues.sp957 wrote:I might just buy a 4MB Cart Capcom Cart and use it's housing for the Action Replay, since I like the Capcom Cart appearance the best.
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You can buy a black AR cart. Or you can put the AR board inside another black cart casing. I've seen a few other types of 3rd party carts use the same AR cart design.
I've never customized an AR cart but I did put an official backup cart board inside an official 4M RAM cart casing and took off the 4M RAM sticker, since they never made an official clear color backup cart for the skeleton Saturn.
I've never customized an AR cart but I did put an official backup cart board inside an official 4M RAM cart casing and took off the 4M RAM sticker, since they never made an official clear color backup cart for the skeleton Saturn.
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SS Game shark is black. Allows for codes, saving, & imports - not 1/4 RAM though IIRC.
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Also destroys your cart slot since the PCB is too thick.Jagosaurus wrote:SS Game shark is black. Allows for codes, saving, & imports - not 1/4 RAM though IIRC.
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Or you could just solder the PCB straight into the Saturn...

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Anyone know where to buy black action replay cards?
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Re: Customizing A Sega Saturn Cartridge
I've done pretty much exactly that with SNES carts a few times.sp957 wrote:Has anyone ever customized a Saturn cartridge? It would be the Action Replay in my case. This thing is so ugly sticking out of a Black USA Saturn.
I was just thinking of spray panting it black and putting my own sticker on there.
Has anyone ever done this or have some tips?
- Anyone got the Saturn Cart sticker dimensions on hand?
If it's not worth it, I might just buy a 4MB Cart Capcom Cart and use it's housing for the Action Replay, since I like the Capcom Cart appearance the best.
As for the label, just measure the dimensions with a ruler or whatever. Use Photoshop or Gimp or whatever. Print out your label on the "draft" setting to make sure the size is perfect. Then get something like this to print your new label with: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MgQGnB1EL.jpg
You could try and tape the label off before spraying, but to get the best results you would wanna remove the old label before spraying then use a new one.
edit: I just measured my label and got 2.812" x 1.812" but again, print drafts of your label until you're sure the size is perfect.
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Nice. Thanks Ziggy.
Awesome SNES cart btw. You even got the curved label down.
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