Genesis Blockbuster Game Factory programmer?

[Nicola]

How did they program the Game Factory cards?
What kind of "kiosk" they had in shops?

[qbertandernie]

apparently it was a programmer that could simply encode each cart with whatever game the renter wanted that day, so you could rent as many of a game as the customer base warranted, without having to pruchase large numbers of every cart.

to my knowledge no programmer has yet been located by a collector.

[Felipe]

I don't know exactly what this Game Factory card is, but I saw on a mailing list a Genesis cart programmer... instructions on how to build the cartridge and the programmer... everything, from the schematics to the pcb. But it's in Portuguese... I can send the URL if anyone is interested, I just have to look for it here.

[Nicola]

I'd really like to see how the programmer was...like the Nintendo Power's ones in Japan...

[Nicola]

I'm too curious...anyone?

And has anyone a cart with some games on it?

[anagrama]

If I remember rightly, someone had one with Sonic 3 on it.

Just had a quick search though, and can't find anything to back that up :/

[qbertandernie]

the guy you are thinking of is 'jerkov'.

[samuraiX]

I had a game factory cart, forgot what was on it or if I even still have it. Wasn't anything special as I remember it. Picked it up in a used rack at Funcoland ages ago.

[portnoyd]

Someone also said they found a copy with TJ&E on it. No programmer has been found, and the paper trail for the Game Factory ends dry. I'll have to dig up the emails I have when I get back from my honeymoon.