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instead of buying the Warioware Twisted Cartridge(lack of cheap availability to get in the uk). I came to the decision of buying a guitar hero cartridge,

i want to use the guitar game controller to store and facilitate the OCC micro controller and other parts


i really have NO experience with playing around with pcb's but its all a learning curve.

here is a brief tear down of the cartridge, shown in the below images. the main obstacle i have to face would be getting the 90 degree PCB to facilitate all the needed connection pins that are needed for the OCC.

is there any pcb part sellers in the us, that i could use to find the names of products, and therefore allowing me to purchase products here in england (search part names in google using "UK results only") we have a place called "Maplin" but they are not really that specialist in my opinion.

im not really wanting to redesign the OCC just wanting to use the GH controller as a case for the bits.

I'm in the UK as well. If you're looking for parts suppliers, Rapid (www.rapidonline.com) and Farnell (http://uk.farnell.com/) are good ones. Not sure about PCB manufacturers. I'm going to give PCBTrain (http://www.pcbtrain.co.uk/) a try shortly.

[quote=J]If my redesign works out well, I'd be happy to make up a bunch of boards for folks. [/quote]

well, redesign? i had to reread this three times to realise that ^.^ i dont how i can handle getting 10 pins into the main compartment using the GBA slot provided,


and i wasnt wanting to use the buttons for anything but mounting the connections in, after gluing them in place...
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