Anyone know how reliable early 90s era flash technology is?
At least the one for this game doesn't appear to just be some old computer RAM powered by a few AA batteries.
True, but do protos ever come that way? I know there's a lot of ghetto 80's homebrew carts for "testing" out there like that, but any protos I've seen generally have EEPROMS and at most, a battery like Zelda, which is just for game saves anyway.
Anyone know how reliable early 90s era flash technology is?
At least the one for this game doesn't appear to just be some old computer RAM powered by a few AA batteries.
True, but do protos ever come that way? I know there's a lot of ghetto 80's homebrew carts for "testing" out there like that, but any protos I've seen generally have EEPROMS and at most, a battery like Zelda, which is just for game saves anyway.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:23 am Post subject:
MrMark0673 wrote:
rbudrick wrote:
Carnivol wrote:
rbudrick wrote:
Anyone know how reliable early 90s era flash technology is?
At least the one for this game doesn't appear to just be some old computer RAM powered by a few AA batteries.
True, but do protos ever come that way? I know there's a lot of ghetto 80's homebrew carts for "testing" out there like that, but any protos I've seen generally have EEPROMS and at most, a battery like Zelda, which is just for game saves anyway.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject:
MrMark0673 wrote:
TheRedEye wrote:
MrMark0673 wrote:
rbudrick wrote:
Carnivol wrote:
rbudrick wrote:
Anyone know how reliable early 90s era flash technology is?
At least the one for this game doesn't appear to just be some old computer RAM powered by a few AA batteries.
True, but do protos ever come that way? I know there's a lot of ghetto 80's homebrew carts for "testing" out there like that, but any protos I've seen generally have EEPROMS and at most, a battery like Zelda, which is just for game saves anyway.
God, don't remind me, I want to throw up every time I see that picture.
Tell me about it. Talk about a prototype that people would be dying to see, and not a single bit of data is left on the chips.
They had a similar looking device at one of the offices I used to do work for. It was blue instead of golden and had a "box" on the top where the RAM is placed on that one (based on what I could see through the few openings, there were slots that old computer RAM would slot into. You know, RAM of the type that your old 286, or something, would use)
Lovely thing had leaked battery acid all over itself and looked like it'd been living in a dumpster. Kinda the digital age's equivalent of a dead, substance abusing war veteran or something.
Not sure what it'd been used for, but my own blind guess would be that it was probably a Scandinavian localization build of NHL '94 (maybe I got the year wrong, but at least I'm pretty sure one of the Genesis/MegaDrive NHL games were localized in Swedish. Whichever one that might've been; that cartridge probably had been part of the fun)
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