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Title: Hucard keyrings
Post by: soop on April 21, 2011, 01:33:32 AM: Once, my dad picked up Mario Land for £1, and as I didn't have a gameboy, I drilled a hole in it and used it as a keyring until the picture wore off. but it bought to mind the fact that you could do the same thing with a cheap Hucard, and possibly have it still function.

So just thinking aloud here, but:

1. What are attractive but cheap Hucards?
2. Where can you drill them (if at all) to retain functionality?

It would be a nice way to bring up everybodies favorite subject too - "what's that?" "Oh, that's just a PC Engine game"
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: Tatsujin on April 21, 2011, 01:50:59 AM: I did that 2 decades ago. I felt like a real king on street with a huey on my keys, believe me.

1. thats to each his own.
2. in one of the two corners at the very rear end, eventually?
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: RR1980 on April 21, 2011, 02:13:06 AM: 1) US magical chase of course!
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: PunkicCyborg on April 21, 2011, 02:26:41 AM: Wonder MOMO
nothin but legs
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: esteban on April 21, 2011, 02:52:48 AM: You can drill in the white plastic part, just don't get close to the black area near the pins. The PCB is embedded in the black area.

For practical reasons, a keyring is more functional if you drill a corner.

Unfortunately, for me, a HuCard is just too damn big for a keyring (see exhibit A). I have a hunk of plastic I took from Red Roof Inn 20 years ago. For me, it is the perfect keyring (sentimental + not too big + not too small + two decades of grime).

(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/keychain_1.jpg)

Of course, if you don't mind the large size of a HuCard, it would make an awesome keychain accessory. It is the perfect thickness (comparable to the thickness of Red Roof Inn's gold-standard, evidenced above).

However, if you drill a hole at the end of a HuCard, chances are that it will hang upside down for most of its existence. Therefore, I suggest that you defile the HuCard and drill into the black PCB area--if only to better appreciate the artwork. Compare Saint Dragon (left) to Ordyne (right).

Why stop at the HuCard, though? Use the entire jewel case as a keychain:

(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/keychain_2.jpg)

You can store a PCE manual, HuCard, notes, road maps, flan and/or sundry items in the jewel case itself:

(http://junk.tg-16.com/images/keycase_1.jpg)

The jewel case is an excellent case to hold your keys.
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: Tatsujin on April 21, 2011, 03:00:56 AM: :lol:
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: soop on April 21, 2011, 03:21:50 AM: LMAO esteban :D

Just checking eBay, the cheapest are £3, and the best looking ones of those are The Kung Fu and HISŌ KIHEI KAI SERD in my opinion. £3 is'nt cheap for a keyring, but I'm considering it. And if I somehow ever find myself without anything to play, it's always there :)

I guess it is a little big though, even for my baggy jeans. It's as big as my work pass...
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: SignOfZeta on April 21, 2011, 04:05:14 AM: Cool idea. Way too big though.
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: Necromancer on April 21, 2011, 04:31:20 AM: Neat idea but I couldn't bring myself to ruin a huey, not even a crapper like Wonder Momo.
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: Jibbajaba on April 21, 2011, 06:50:46 AM: Quote from: Necromancer on April 21, 2011, 04:31:20 AM
Neat idea but I couldn't bring myself to ruin a huey, not even a crapper like Wonder Momo.

Seconded.

Chris
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: guyjin on April 21, 2011, 10:05:33 AM: perhaps Deep Blue?

but then who would want to be seen carrying Deep Blue?

truly a dilemma. any game you would want to do this to is obviously too precious to do that to; but a game you could do that to, you wouldn't want to.
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: sunteam_paul on April 21, 2011, 10:57:53 AM: Quote from: guyjin on April 21, 2011, 10:05:33 AM
perhaps Deep Blue?

but then who would want to be seen carrying Deep Blue?

truly a dilemma. any game you would want to do this to is obviously too precious to do that to; but a game you could do that to, you wouldn't want to.

Just print a Magical Chase sticker and plaster it over a Deep Blue huey. Problem solved.
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: ccovell on April 21, 2011, 11:32:00 AM: I used a spare PC Genjin card as a keyring for several years when I first came to Japan. Yeah, it often jacknifed inside my pocket, but brought a smile to my face whenever I came home. I stopped using it after I found a Rockman keychain in a thrift store. :D
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: Tatsujin on April 21, 2011, 01:24:56 PM: I think my first pce huey I sacrified as a key chain was obocchama-kun. After that I had other which didn't work at all anymore.
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: roflmao on April 21, 2011, 02:17:21 PM: I've thought about using one as a keychain in the past, but they just seem a little to bulky for me. I did have a tiny PS2 controller keychain for awhile and a little purple gamecube keychain. Oh, and in college I had a little tetris keychain that actually played - that was way too bulky, but it was a fully functional game man!
Title: Re: Hucard keyrings
Post by: esteban on April 22, 2011, 01:42:57 AM: KEITH COURAGE was the obvious choice for this project! Drill, meet Keith...