Taito F3 Multigame

[bagheera369]

Also they said on AO wiki that it could be melted out with a soldering iron as well....so I would agree, and put the region free mobo responsibility on the customer.

 

[Brentradio]

Well for the record, I have no problem modifying mine.

 

[KalessinDB]

werejag did a motherboard group buy where he modded them all for region free, so I'm covered on the region free front.

 

[werejag]

yes i did.

 

[ekorz]

yes i did.

While I'm totally comfortable burning mine out with a soldering iron, or handling an exacto, if you've done this a dozen times maybe you could post some details about your preferred method?

 

[werejag]

i used a dremel diamond bit and excavated the pins. this made short work on the plastic wedges. the really small ball type worked out well

 

[Mitsurugi-w]

yeah the dremel has all sorts of precision bits that work great.

 

[Brentradio]

i used a dremel diamond bit and excavated the pins. this made short work on the plastic wedges. the really small ball type worked out well

Thanks for posting this werejag, I will be trying this exact method...

 

[rtw]

@werejag could you share which exact bit you used ?

As @Mitsurugi-w pointed out, there are a lot of bits

 

[werejag]

looks like bit 191 its a ball on a shaft

 

[rtw]

Thanks, are you 100% sure about the 191 ? 3.2mm bit is a bit wide ?

 

[werejag]

no im not sure the tip was really small and i do t have the packaging anymore

 

[deibit]

the 191 is way too wide, no way it can fit between pins (I just test fitted it)

 

[Derick2k]

I would go with the 106 engraving bit, its 1.6mm so it should fit fine between the pins since they are 2.54mm apart on center.

 

[werejag]

sorry didnt remeber exact bit

 

[deibit]

106 is good,I just did the mod with it.

It just takes time, it's not a 2 minutes thing.

 

[waiwainl]

106 is good,I just did the mod with it.

It just takes time, it's not a 2 minutes thing.

But fun for life

 

[jassin000]

Performed "surgery" on my mobo as well...

I'm going to just go ahead and start referring to this as "the werejag method" because I did it with a Dremel tool using the bit 191 as described.
Sure it was a little big, but I hit it from the side vertically, and slid the tip forward/upward slowly, cutting/eating away the plastic tab and metal pins at the same time.

 

[Derick2k]

Performed "surgery" on my mobo as well...

I'm going to just go ahead and start referring to this as "the werejag method" because I did it with a Dremel tool using the bit 191 as described.
Sure it was a little big, but I hit it from the side vertically, and slid the tip forward/upward slowly, cutting/eating away the plastic tab and metal pins at the same time.

So just to clarify, the pins that make up the region "protection" tabs are not connected to/needed for anything?

 

[werejag]

i left the pins intacted. i see you just toasted em