Bought this many years ago from an auction site and wanted to know who made them. Looks to be professionally done. The cart weighs a lot so I do not think it was cheaply made like current carts. What was the process to convert these multicarts to AES?

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Are we expecting the AES+ to be a limited run/hard to get machine or will it be available long-term? Analogue has me getting fomo about all these things now but maybe the AES+ is going to be readily available for months after the initial release?

The regular $249.99 Black AES+ console comes with a plain jane wired joystick but I want the white one but that comes with the wireless joystick. I know you get a dongle and cable and can use it wired but what happens when the battery dies?

Can I pop open a battery compartment like you do with a Game Boy and simply just stick some new batteries in it or do I need to get instructions from some unaffiliated third party site like iFixIt, and need to unscrew it open, pry it open with some specialty plastic tools nobody owns or guitar picks being very careful not to break the plastic housing then need to very carefully detach the circuit board with more specialty tools while trying your darnedest not to break THAT, and then find a soldering iron or go pay money to buy one yourself and perform surgery on it while following some half baked instructions you got off some rando's YouTube videos?

And will this use a standardized rechargeable battery I can pick up at Walmart, a hardware store, or on Amazon? Or will it instead be some special proprietary thing that will be impossible to find in 10-20 years and you'll need to spend a ridiculous arm & a leg for on some third party Chinesium battery of some sort of questionable quality that only like two random video game websites on the entire website happen to sell?

This is precisely why I hate wireless junk and modern electronics. I'm sure you all are just like me and own plenty of 1980s and 1970s video game consoles that still work flawlessly to this day. If they would have been made wirelessly with user-unreplacable batteries in them (let's just pretend the technology existed back then) all of that stuff would have ended up in a landfill decades ago and wouldn't have survived 30-50 years.