Atari 2600 Ms. Pac Man EPROM Cart. Open or not?

[Nicola]

The top label is blank, the main one is just white paper. Should I make a hole and check what's inside?

This doesn't come from a collector, but comes from USA. Works well on a PAL 2600 Jr.

[Nicola]

No, it's not a complete hole. But I'm going to open that!

[Nicola]

...it's glued.

[Vectorman0]

...it's glued.

Time to go straight to dumping it, then?

[Nicola]

Yes, I must setup the 7800 dumping machine Stonic gave me, but I have a nice problem..since it wouldn't output video on my PAL tvs...that's why I would have prefered to open and dump the eprom.

[Nicola]

The question is: do you think it's worth the damage? I should get a loose Ms Pac Man to check for differences. I've got one, but it's sealed...being a collector it's quite difficult sometimes.

ps Stonic I still owe you a lot.

[Mitch]

I don't think there's a PAL version of the 7800dev BIOS The good thing is, it's not like there's any label to damage should you want to crack the case open.

The 7800 devOS is universal. It will work as either PAL or NTSC depending on what type 7800 you install it in.
You should be able to dump it without a display though. After you plug in the cart and turn it on, hit the reset button on the 7800 and it will go into transfer mode.

Mitch

[Wickeycolumbus]

Never seen a 2600 proto quite like that. Hope you can dump it (and hopefully release it) soon!

Can you tell if it is a WIP or is it the final version?