EEprom in cart

masschamber

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I opened up my world heroes cart just to see if I could and several of the chips were eeproms,
Did snk use eeproms early on or do all neo geo games have eeproms, it just seemed odd to me as only 3 of them where
 

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masschamber said:
I opened up my world heroes cart just to see if I could and several of the chips were eeproms,
Did snk use eeproms early on or do all neo geo games have eeproms, it just seemed odd to me as only 3 of them where

Carts do not use EEPROMs (electronically erasable programmable read only memory)

Many carts do use EPROMs (erasable programable read only memory) with the window on the ICs for uv erasure.

Different production runs of the same cart may or may not use EPROMS.
EPROM does not = bootleg.

Edit: if you are in doubt of the authenticity of the cart, the best way to confirm is to post a piccy here.
 
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masschamber said:
I opened up my world heroes cart just to see if I could and several of the chips were eeproms,
Did snk use eeproms early on or do all neo geo games have eeproms, it just seemed odd to me as only 3 of them where

Eproms or EEproms?

Most world Heroes carts have EPROMS....
 

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My mistake they were eproms, just wondering, it looked legit just I thought they're use was kind of odd.
 
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