Is it normal to find EPROMs in a retail game?

dballindballin
in Collector's Corner
Going through my SNES games, pulling everything apart to clean the contacts so whoever buys my stuff gets squeaky clean games and I came across this little guy. I own the game CIB so it's quite obviously a retail game, but it's still got 2 EPROMs under the hood. I think it's pretty neat. Just curious how often this actually happens.



CIB?!: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/dballin4/DSCN1747_zpsa1f853b8.jpg

Up close & personal: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y98/dballin4/DSCN1748_zps05cf1d76.jpg

Comments

  • dballindballin
    This was totally supposed to be on NA. oops
  • bigbaconbigbacon
    arent those normally used in protos?
  • dballindballin
    yup. According to our buddies Matt and Mark I just found a prototype. Pretty sweet stuff considering I bought it for $2 or 3 and didn't know about it for over a year and a half.
  • MetahMetah
    Very cool dude. I wonder how it got in a retail copy though?
  • dballindballin
    That's the mystery. I guess it's not completely unheard of to find a proto in retail packaging, but it's not at all common. The NA thread is where the action is: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=5&threadid=113315
  • dcdandcdan
    I would say it's not unusual to find two proms in one board. Most if not all SMS games have them including most SNES and NES carts as well. Its basically just the rom split between to eproms. Some genesis games have them but its a little more uncommon. You might have a proto but I would check out some the same game to see if its similar. Sometimes games made in other regions use this method instead of the one chip one board method but I'm no expert.
  • dballindballin
    Yeah the two chip thing isn't a big deal. That's common like you said. Finding an eprom dev board (which Matt/Mark say it definitely is) inside a cart with the retail label inside a box with manual and extras is the weird thing.
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