Cuious about a chip on a pcb
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So I have a large box of PCB boards I use as donors (all of which are mostly sports games) when I find games that do not work. I bought this lot a couple of years ago and there was one that stood out to me as weird. Its an EA pcb and if I recall correctly it is one of the football games that I have atleast 30 of. The only difference it this one's rom is on its own pcb raised of the actual game pcb snd the rom is on a smaller chip. Is this just a majesco release or something and they did it to cut costs? I dont see how it would. Any input from you guys would be appreciated.
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Looks like an attempt at a repro.
I thought that too, but its a basic EA sports game on an EA pcb, so that would make no sense.
Some SNES carts use ROM chips like that. It's a smaller chip that was placed on a daughter-board adapter. I don't know the reason why, but I assume those smaller chips were either cheaper or more available than the original sized chips.
No legitimate SNES game on earth used EEPROMs.
Now that I think about it, I dont think that flash chip was manufactured back then.
Closeup of the chip?
Its most definitely a repro. That's using a board adapter bought from here (Adapter type 1): http://www.buyicnow.com/it.php?i=...
Well who would make a repro of a sports game then put the repro rom on the same board that the original rom of the same said repro was on?
Some SNES carts use ROM chips like that. It's a smaller chip that was placed on a daughter-board adapter. I don't know the reason why, but I assume those smaller chips were either cheaper or more available than the original sized chips.
Do you know of any specific examples?
Not saying it makes complete sense, but it's a repro without a doubt.
Someone learning, most likely. What better way to make sure your repro skills are working than to test out with a ROM meant for that specific board?
Not saying it makes complete sense, but it's a repro without a doubt.
Ok thanks
Yes it's 100% a reproduction. Yes it's a TSOP flash memory chip on it.
People use SNES sports games for reproductions all the time because they're cheap and SNES mainly only has HiRom and LowRom types for the most part.
If it has a sports game rom on it someone likely assembled it with that game flashed to test their soldering or that the TSOP wasn't fake (yup fake flash is a thing). Then the TSOP can be reprogrammed using a pin adapter.
It's modern not old. Certainly not from the 90s.
That's where I'm putting my money.
Did you check the rosters in the game? Very possible it's a repro with an updated "modern" roster.
That's where I'm putting my money.
Good point. Ill look and post a pic or two of whats there. Maybe someone could tell me if its a modern roster because I would not know.