Trifecta 196 Member · Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 I recently purchased the NES game P.O.W. and decided to open it up and clean it. I found stickers covering up the two biggest chips on the board. I took one of the stickers off to see if it was a eprom (it wasn't) and put it back on to take a picture. I wonder does anyone else had this experience with a POW game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 1,628 Member · Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Hmm interesting. Someone posted on here when the site first started about some quirky chips in Donkey Kong. I think the explanation was that Nintendo’s service department had some surplus writable EPROMs that were normally used to flash arcade machines. They just used some of those to do a warranty repair on an NES cart. Since this is POW I believe the publisher is SNK, so maybe this could be a repaired warranty cart that SNK worked on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s 3,358 Member · Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Mine has the same thing! I wonder if the chips were re-used from another game? They are EPROM right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarzombie 751 Member · Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Those kind of chips are one time programmable IIRC so I dont think they were re-used. Kinda like CDRs and CDRW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeatherRebel5150 914 Member · Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 I had a similar situation I asked about on NA years ago. Cant remember what/if there was an explanation. If only NA was easily searchable ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trifecta 196 Member · Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Well, I guess we will have to start everything from scratch here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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