Anyone else here making their own carts?

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I started messing with console stuff and see there are ton of resources out there to make your own carts. I scrolled through several years of this forum and really didn't find much, which surprised me based on the general technical level of people in this forum. Are people here more just collecting? Have the flash carts just made nobody care about making carts with modded roms and whatnot since you can just flash whatever on them?
 

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Im a purist so i prefer the real thing. However, rom hacks, remixes of games, and translations for japanese games never released here make me want to experiment. I have a rom burner, i just dont know exactly how to get started or where to look due to the amount of information flying around.

What do you recommend?
 
If you want to put together new carts, Mouse Bite Labs sells some PCBs on Etsy. They also have some very excellent How Tos for using donor carts with eproms or flash chips. Of course it depends on the system.
 
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I really enjoy taking a JP cart and putting the English or a fan-translated version on it. Some systems are def easier than others. For most snes games you pretty much need those Mouse Byte adapters. The guy who runs that site is really cool and lives 20 min from me, here in Cleveland, haha.

What systems are you mostly working on?

It's just time consuming so I find less and less time for it unfortunately.
 
I've mainly been messing with NES games after I got the itch working on a Unisystem cabinet. I have a few of the old NES games I still enjoy occasionally and I love messing with the modded ROMS on a PC emulator, so this was the logical next step for me. I'm looking to maybe move into some Sega Genesis stuff if I can scrounge up a cheap console. I really should be finishing up those arcade projects...
 
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