Like I said, I was driven here.
The parts and ideas just arrived with time.
Three of those 32x were given away... nobody wanted one ten years ago.
ShopGoodwill is only available in the US.
Its a major donation house. In other words they are the great "stuff of the people" recycler here.
Its when people give, simply die or both and their stuff goes to GoodWill. Thats about it.
The great yard or gargage sale is available online with delivery in the future that is now.
Macho Nacho's format has improved and I am grateful to have worked with him.
The only take back is that his format is sometimes too short to cover all everything well.
In this case the final video, while providing much needed clarity and public exposure, has some obvious ommisions.
So its easy to find a VA3.
Look for the short board by finding pictures of the back the device and looking thru the plastic grill.
The chrome plated ESD shield is clearly visable.
If it takes up the entire view of the grill then its a VA1 or variation.
If it does not and there is empty case to be seen then its a VA3
This is well known and there are pics on the net but I am being lazy atm.
A Longhorn is much more. So very painful.
Respect it.
My Longhorn is mostly my modular design changes with the wires, esd shields and cartridge flap mod.
So while the Longhorn does make room for the cartridge flaps, the absolute carnage it takes to get there is easily over looked.
In terms of destruction and difficulty thats why I make it a point to state just how different the Modular design is.
Primary differences.
1. The long wires required. There is a great method for this by the
PunkNDisorderlyGamer on the YouTubes.
2. Homemade Aluminum ESD shields, At least two are Required and if these dont work the project could be doomed.
3. Shaving down the 32x catridge port. Irreversible and while replacements are easy enough the original part cannot be replaced
4. Cutting the cartridge flap chassis to fit. Again Irreversible, destroys the better made original and while replacements are possible with DVIZIX parts, these are printed, expensive and not nearly as good as the original part.
So you can see here, the airgaps and differences between MD2 VA1 and VA3 and VA4 models.
You'll be able to see this difference when then console is flipped over.
https://segaretro.org/Sega_Mega_Drive/Hardware_revisions