NES carts that have EPROMS in them!

[leonk]

As a collector, every new NES games that comes into my hands gets a very good cleaning.. and that includes opening the carts up and cleaning all contacts, and cleaning both shells very well..

I have noticed something strange today.. the 2 copies of pestimator that I have, both have EPROMS!! (Blue color dreams games).

Are there any other production NES games that use EPROMS rather than ROMS!? In this case, we should focus on backing them up to prevent BIT ROT! Better yet, can these EPROMS be replaces by burned ROMS !??

LK

[CrazyImpmon]

I have a Metal Fighter (Color Dream) with hand soldered EPROM and I'm going to check my NES collection (that is what's left... still haven't found my missing 100+ carts) and see what else. Opening CD games are a pain because one screw is hiding under a big-ass label and it's difficult to pry it out without tearing the label or breaking something. :P

EDIT: just a quickie: i only found one other game with EPROM: Crystal Mine. It has one 256K EPROM (27C256) and one 512K OTPROM (one time progrmamable) At least I'm pretty sure it's a OTPROM, its number is 24512ap-25 by Toshiba

[nesman85]

a lot of color dreams games and AVE games have eproms in them. i won an auction a while ago for a game listed as puzzle eprom cart, i won it for 30 something (yeah, i was dumb). but after i found out that it was just a normal puzzle cart and talked to the seller about it he sold it to me for 10.

[AlanD]

I dumped and released the roms to all the AVE, Color Dreams, Wisdom Tree and other assorted unlicensed carts quite a while back so unless you have some weird revision of the game all of them are dumped. It is worth verifying the revision on Wisdom Tree titles against GoodNES since there are quite a few revisions and it is possible you could have something new. The revision is written on the chip or in the actual title screen sequence.
AlanD

[neschampion]

The panesian games use eproms (or at least the only 2 I have ever seen opened did).