Quote Originally Posted by sk8rping View Post
I actually made a homemade fliptop case. Back before FMCB, I also grew tired of the slide tool method for cogswap and swap magic. I had an old version 4 that went dead long ago so with the tutorial I found on exploitstation, I decided to try to make my own fliptop for my version 10. There were extra tabs or plastic pieces underneath the top cover that I had to get rid of to make fit the v10, but I got it to work. Very crude looking, not pretty at all but it got the job done and I was able to swap without the slide tool. Then after FMCB came out, I put my original top back on and used ESR...that is until my laser got fried due to poor media and me not employing the romeo mod beforehand.
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i tried to do the romeo mod but like an idiot, i ended up braking pin 17 on the la-6508 chip . i desoldered the chip and let me tell ya that it wasn't fun at all!! not having a small tip on the iron made things more difficult. i'm gonna get a replacement but soldering that freaking chip back on isn't going to be easy.

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gotta go with HDL all the way dude unless of course you can alternatively use ESR if you can't get your hdd to work with HDL.