Non SMB/DH , SSVB/NWCup glob tops?

[guitarzombie]

I got a Konami 24 Double Dribble and to my surprise, when I opened it up... it was a glob top!

Its the normal Konami board, but instead of a chip, soldered over it is a glop top on a really thin PCB over where the chip would have gone. I took some pics of it. Anyone else ever encounter this?

Was this done because the original chip was bad and the game was 'serviced' and replaced with a glob top?

[lidnariq]

A surprising number of licensed Famicom releases were released using chip-on-board. But outside of Japan, they're relatively unknown.

[guitarzombie]

Mine looks the most like Puzzle, the PRG side. But this is an official NES cart, but the little glob top tab doesnt look like it has a model number. I think it says 80005, but I cant tell. Ill have to upload it later.

[guitarzombie]

Here are the pics

[mikejmoffitt]

That's neat, there's an adapter for it. I don't know how big the price jump is between a blob on the PCB versus on an adapter board like that compared to an actual packaged ROM.