I just cracked mine open to see if it could be reprogrammed, and saw those 4 pairs of shunt pads ABCD with the surface mount 0 ohm resistor across the A pair, and thought, "Oh nice! they have ALL the games built in, and just used a shunt to select which one loads!" So I did a quick search and found this video which confirms it. Thanks for this!! For those of you who dont know, the board inside of these has the game on the cover pre-selected with a tiny resistor. you remove that, and add a dip switch or 4 position rotary switch in place so you can choose which game to play. pretty cool.
I bought two of these as Christmas presents!! Frogger and Pac Man. So the chips basically have the information to play all the tiny arcade games but each one just had one unlocked by default?
Thanks for talking and explaining it.
HAHA! I just spit my drink! Definitely needed that laugh.
I just cracked mine open to see if it could be reprogrammed, and saw those 4 pairs of shunt pads ABCD with the surface mount 0 ohm resistor across the A pair, and thought, "Oh nice! they have ALL the games built in, and just used a shunt to select which one loads!" So I did a quick search and found this video which confirms it. Thanks for this!!
For those of you who dont know, the board inside of these has the game on the cover pre-selected with a tiny resistor. you remove that, and add a dip switch or 4 position rotary switch in place so you can choose which game to play. pretty cool.
Cool hack, maybe when I get better at soldering will attempt this.
I bought two of these as Christmas presents!! Frogger and Pac Man. So the chips basically have the information to play all the tiny arcade games but each one just had one unlocked by default?
Nin_The_Destroyer yes exactly. This is often done to save on production cost.
Frogger? There is not a fogger as of now. Maybe you're talking about a different brand like the bridge direct version or something.
how to get it to stay on? mine goes to sleep after awhile
Thanks for nothing.