Strange Mario/Duck Hunt board...

GradualGames · Post by **GradualGames** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:12 pm

I was applying DeOxit to more of my collection this evening and noticed a mario/duck hunt cartridge I had looked totally different from what I'm used to seeing. Usually you see a big PRG-ROM, CHR-ROM, and for mario/duck hunt a couple of extra chips. This one had four, flattened, round, black objects very flat against the board. Is anyone familiar with this sort of board? If not perhaps I will post a photo.

Nessie · Post by **Nessie** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:19 pm

http://kevtris.org/nes/gloptop.html
http://kevtris.org/mappers/nes_custom/NES_MHROM.html

drk421 · Post by **drk421** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:11 am

So if its cheap, why aren't all carts like this?

Drag · Post by **Drag** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:13 am

drk421 wrote:So if its cheap, why aren't all carts like this?

The same reason we all don't choose ramen as our sole sustenance.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:00 am

drk421 wrote:So if its cheap, why aren't all carts like this?

I actually thought they were, because I have never seen one that wasn't.

Post by **Memblers** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:43 pm

The gloptop version of SMB/DH is far more common than the chip version. Years ago I bought around 175 SMB/DH carts for recycling, and that yielded maybe 30 boards with DIP ICs. You can tell without opening by looking at the connector, on the gloptop version the unused pins just aren't there. There are also label variations, the older ones (without a seal of quality) tend to be chip versions, but not always.

So if its cheap, why aren't all carts like this?

If you look at the carts made today (pirate and unlicensed Fami carts I mean), I'd be surprised if there were any that use actual removable chips. On one cart I had (came with the PowerJoy II) actually the board was made to take a DIP ROM, but the ROM was a gloptop installed on a DIP-sized carrier board, I thought that was pretty funny.

(mapper chip was a blob too of course)

I guess it wasn't common with other games because of a higher set-up cost.

AWal · Post by **AWal** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:11 pm

like previously said. Mario/Duck Hunt most of the time came with the chips on-die (nickednamed glop-tops).

I personally have three M/DH carts, one of which is this way. I also have a Mario/Duck Hunt/Track Meet cart with glop-tops ironically enough.

Easiest way I've found to get versions without die is to visit a physical game shop and purchase the heavier ones...This is also a good tatic to get joint boards for famicart conversions, since they'd weigh the most (by experience they also seem to be uneven too).

ed: typo/homonym