A smashed, yellowed PAL Super Nintendo wouldn’t boot a game. I clean its slot with a 3D printed tool, move the barrel jack and swap everything into a new smoke grey shell.
Temu asked for a right of reply, so I spent their budget on retro repair tools and parts. Here’s what was actually worth having.
A full build guide for Robin H Edwards’ A8PicoCart: a cheap Pico-based flash multicart for the Atari 400, 800, XL and XE, from PCB order to a 3D printed case.
A melted ColecoVision cartridge from my house fire, with no idea what game was inside. I clean the baked-on soot from its edge fingers and switch it on to find out.
A ColecoVision cartridge pulled from the ashes of my house fire. I free the board, clean off the embedded soot, print a new shell and label, and see if Carnival still boots.