Pre-Made EPROM Cart Boards

[Robotz]

Has anyone made a cartridge board so that new carts can be semi-mass produced? Or figured any existing Genesis carts that use dual 8-bit ROMs so the board can be re-used if the original ROMs are desoldered and removed?

-paul

[oompa loompa]

hmm i don't think anyone has manufactured any pre-etched genesis pcb's yet. i was thinking about doing this and selling them out since companies can etch you pcb's for a very nice price because totek cards are a rip x.x, but i haven't taken take the chance yet =P.

there are no existing genesis carts that have dual 8 bit roms either, since most carts can be made more cheaper using 16-bit roms compared to two 8-bit roms

to attatch memory to a cart, you'll have to rip out the rom chip on the cartridge, and add a prepunched pcb holding the memory, and let the wires run directly to the cartridge where the old rom dip sat

[Robotz]

I'm starting work on an EPROM board. I'm probably going to gear it towards using a pair of 27256, but I'll see about making it so it can easily accomodate larger EPROMs if you change a couple of jumpers. It'll fit in a standard case, and I'll put them in the Atariage.com store when they're done.

-paul

[oompa loompa]

for small programming uses, 27512's are good enough, unless you wanna make some graphics intensive game =P. i think if you go up in size, people will start using these carts for playing their eproms from burned roms, your choice =)

atariage has some cool 2600 pcb's that i would have bought, but i could buy the games and rip the roms off and have the plastic case included, although i would need to mount another pcb for logic parts. also have a dozen original atari 2600 1979 pcb's that are unused too