Patola Cartridge cases for MSX

Nice futuristic look the front side has!

Or is it just because it is so much zoomed picture?

Anyway, nice cartridge cases.

@MäSäXi: Ok, I resized the images to reduce them a little.

@Kuuno: It's easy to drill this kind of holes on those cases just as they are. A standard home driller can be used for that.

Some feedback from the european hardware makers would be welcome. Sunrise, Padial, Supersoniqs, MSX-CartridgeShop, where are you?

@Sander: I noticed it just after the post. I'm replying it right now.

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Based on the questions I received privately, here's some more info on the cases that might not be easy to notice just by looking at the pictures:

1) Appearance

As with Konami cartridge cases, the plastic of the interior of the cartridge isn't polished, but the exterior plastic is. The outside plastic is textured, which makes it very resistant to day-to-day scratches. The texture is rougher than the one on the back of the Konami SCC cartridges to make it more scratch resistant.

The only glossy-like parts are those spaces reserved for glueing the stickers of the cartridge. There's one area for a sticker at the front and another separate area at the top of the case. On the back there's a glossy area that doesn't need stickers, as I will explain below.

2) Internal Space & compatibility

The internal space is very close to a standard Konami SCC cartridge, except for:

a) There are pillars for two screws
b) There's more space on the upper left of the cartridge, since on Konami ones there's a pillar on that place

The design must take those pillars for the screws into consideration, as those are the only way to close the cartridge unless you plan to glue both sides together. Yes, the case is designed in a way that you cat just cut out the internal pillars-for-screws and use glue to close it. For most circuit boards, only the pillars of the back will have to be cut.

The guide-pins that hold the board in position seem to be at the same place of those inside the Konami cartridges too.

On the smooth area of the back, there's a suitable angled depression also to avoid that this area touches any surfaces that would cause scratches. This depression reduces the internal space of that area a very little bit, like 2mm at the very top of the plastic case.

UP

Any updates?

Hi MSXers,
In February there was an item about MSX cartridge, so the empty cartridge-cases, where many are searching. I do hereby join a queue. So if SD_Snatcher a large number of these cases can get hold of the company Patola, then I have 3 or 4 bundles of 5 items already ordered!
It's for my MSX project.
Regards,
Frits9164 (MRC)