Depends on what you are modding: motherboard or game. For motherboard, it's just a physical lockout. Carve out some plastic keys inside the headers. For games it's an EEPROM change. How to do it here:This is burning a new EPROM (a few?) and popping it into the cart, yeah?
though it can take a little (tedious) time.
I assume this is for the nubs? I don't think you can clear $50 in it. With the right dremel bit it's pretty painless, though it can take a little (tedious) time. Also, with cost of shipping to you and back - that's an easy $25 for both ways (these are large / heavy).
If you want to do it - what I would do is buy them in bulk at ($50~ or so), mod them in bulk, sell them at $75 shipped. You won't retire, but you'll make a few bucks for your time and I do think there is a market for them.
i dont have the capital to buy anything in bulk yet. so i would receive the board mod it and ship it back in a few days. just looking for some cash for a few things like another naomi dc adapter. stuff like that.
just removal of the blocks on the f3
so 50 is unreasonable?
Ahhh, modding the board to accept carts from any region.
I've found the best way to cut off the plastic nubs is with a sharp blade on a solder iron. Makes fairly quick work of it.
$50 shipped to cut two tiny tabs on the connectors? That's steep. Compare that to other console mods where some installers charge $50 for an entire NES RGB installation, albeit not shipped. A similar mod is people charging $10-15 for the ridiculously easy SNES 'region mod' (lol) where you just cut/file the tabs down. Asking $50 shipped for something this simple is pretty steep.
Have you tried modding an F3 board? It's nowhere near as easy as a SNES.
No I haven't, but looking at the page Undamnned linked it can't be anymore difficult than un-keying a IDE cable slot. Considering people suggest melting the tabs off with a soldering iron, I don't see it being anymore difficult unless there is more involved than what's shown there.
Anybody ever use a hot knife like this to cut the tabs?
http://www.wirecare.com/product.asp?pn=WC01211322&gclid=CJ_7kduIrcMCFYhafgod6TAAMQ
saw one last time I was with the wife at Hobby Lobby and was thinking about trying it out. Kind of like an x-acto and soldering iron in one.