The cables in question were like the one in the attachment. Notice the contacts and the layer of plastic along the bottom edge. That’s why it wouldn’t fit into my FB+ cart.

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Thanks for posting.. Yeah I don’t know what the deal was but I had 4 mini USB cables around the house and they must be just for charging certain devices..

I had a box laying around with a mini USB cable in it for programming an Xbox J-Runner Programmer, grabbed that and the mini end looks the same as yours. All is well with the universe here, don’t mind me.

Thanks!

Here are pics so you can see what I am talking about. I put my Flashboy+ up against a GoPro so you can see how skinny the plastic blade in the center of the connector is supposed to be for mini type B.

http://s32.postimg.org/9vb2b872t/IMG_8406.jpg

http://s32.postimg.org/4vdm3a1g5/IMG_8405.jpg

Thanks for the reply. I figured everyone else was using a standard mini usb (mini type B) connection at the cart end.

Either way, I won’t bother Richard just yet as I ordered a cable with standard USB A male at one end and USB Mini A male at the other end. I’d like to confirm that this is actually a mini type A connector first. If it isn’t then it is just a poorly manufactured connector with a defect in the plastic piece in the center preventing me from plugging a cable in.

I can try to push a mini type B male cable into the Flashboy+ cart connector with a decent amount of force but it wont go in. The plastic insulator in the center is too large for the opening it would normally fit into on a mini USB type B male cable.

Received mine last night. Very fast turn around for shipping from the UK to US!

One major problem though. There was no cable included. I was under the impression that this worked with a standard USB type-A male to type B-mini cable. However, I have tried plugging about 4 different USB type-B mini male cable ends into my Flashboy+ cart and none will fit. These cable work fine with all my other USB mini-B devices (like my GoPro, PS3 controllers, Logitech Harmony remotes, etc)

I took a look around online and the connector on my Flashboy+ cartridge looks exactly like a USB Type-A Mini Female connector. Exactly like the picture here:
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/hardware/USB_Mini/usb-mini-receptacle-a.jpg

So the cable on the left in the picture below would seem to be the correct fit.. but this is strange to me as USB mini-A is extremely deprecated.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Mini_usb_AB.jpg

Was the cartridge tested before being shipped? What type of cable was used if so?

Thanks!