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JC Ex Member	Famicom Protos/Test Carts? 17. Mar 2007 at 18:57 I won these in an auction today. I don't know what they are. Anyone?
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Reply #1 - 17. Mar 2007 at 19:24

A guy by the name of antont posted this on DP in regards to these ebay items:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sqoon-Test-Cart-Nintendo-Famicom-Japan-nes_W0QQitemZ28009191...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Gegege-no-Kitarou-Test-Cart-Nintendo-Famicom-Japan-nes_W0QQi...

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Hello,
Those are not protos but recordable NES cartridges (made of EEPROMs) with pirated (copied) games on them. I have the copier and a few blank cartridges and they look exactly the same. The two holes are for the EEPROMs (that way they can be erased using UV light - when you turn a switch on the copier). The switch on the cartridge is used to toggle between two different video decoding modes - depending on the encoding used in the game you are copying.

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FamicomJL God Member Offline Fami, Fami, Famicom? Posts: 689 Long Island, New York Gender:	Re: Famicom Protos/Test Carts? Reply #2 - 17. Mar 2007 at 19:26 Oh well, still cool nonetheless.
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JC Ex Member	Re: Famicom Protos/Test Carts? Reply #3 - 17. Mar 2007 at 21:23 Ah, ok. I was hoping for better, but glad I didn't spend much on them. I'll be curious to see what I can do with them. BTW: Would Nintendo have used something similar when testing games it was developing?
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Reply #4 - 19. Mar 2007 at 00:51

I have one one of those, it has a label that says EPROM 21 I think. It has the nintendo version of pinball on it. Why anyone would pirate this is anyone's guess. I wonder what mappers are supported or the size of the eproms it has. I still don't know a reliable way of opening fami carts without breaking them so I don't want to open it.

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