Super Nintendo cartridge wallet with sound, light, and key storage

Step 3 Cut out Clear ID plate area

If you want to leave your game title intact, you can skip this step.

Now first we need to measure before we cut. Place your faceplate section of the cartridge with the title face down, place your dummy card in the top center of the cartridge. See how it already fits inside long ways, just not shortways? This means we don't have to measure that way. It's done for us. Take out the card.

Now take a good hard look at your plexiglass picture frame and take careful note of how thick it is! Add the thickness of your plexiglass frame to the short side of your card, then add two more millimeters. The two millimeters is going to act as your buffer. Write down this distance. You will need this.

With the faceplate still title down, take your dremel with a cutting tool and with your cutter against the top edge (NOT PRESSING AGAINST IT) cut a line along the top inner corner/edge. Do NOT! go all the way to the corner of the game title sticker section!! We will finish that later with an exacto blade! We want this to be as straight and even as possible and a dremel just might get out of hand and create some sloppy corners. With an exacto blade you have more control.

Flip the faceplate over with the title upwards.

Starting from that edge you just cut, measure down the distance you measure out and draw a horizontal line with a pen or exacto blade across the inside middle of the cartridge, do not go past the imaginary edge created by the title area. Dremel cut your way down along the inside title area until you are a millimeter away from reaching the line that you drew from your own measurement.

Cut in the inside of your line that you drew from your measurement, again stopping when you're a millimeter from the corner.

Now you should have four corners, cut them out as exact (A pun!) as you can!

When you're done the center will fall out, congrats! Chances are you are not a perfect dremel-er, so take some regular, fine grit sand paper and lightly flatten the edges, take off any papery edges, but don't worry too much.

Keep the cutout! Whenever I mention plastic bits and you've run out, you can cut up this portion!

There are easier ways to cut this, and more exact ways, like say with a jigsaw table, or better dremel tools, but I'm using what I got. By all means if you have a better way of cutting, go for it, but the way of measuring and the method of going about cutting (not the actual act of cutting) are good, so they should be followed unless the new means of cutting doesn't allow you to follow my directions...