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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"

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?

1) US magical chase of course!

Wonder MOMO
nothin but legs

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).

(https://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:

(https://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:

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

The jewel case is an excellent case to hold your keys.

:lol:

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...

Cool idea. Way too big though.

Neat idea but I couldn't bring myself to ruin a huey, not even a crapper like Wonder Momo.

Quote from: guest on 04/21/2011, 11:31 AMNeat idea but I couldn't bring myself to ruin a huey, not even a crapper like Wonder Momo.

Seconded.

Chris

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.

Quote from: guyjin on 04/21/2011, 05:05 PMperhaps 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.

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

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.

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!

KEITH COURAGE was the obvious choice for this project! Drill, meet Keith...