Hakogame 箱亀 Posted August 3, 2001 Share Posted August 3, 2001 Procyon Lotor, are you my evil twin, or just my new arch nemesis from an alternate dimension? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanBoris Posted August 3, 2001 Share Posted August 3, 2001 This is a result of how the cartridge was originally dumped. 5200 carts have space for 2 ROM chips in them, 16K each. So if a cartridge had only a 16K ROM in one slot then the remaining 16K would either be blank of contain garbage. From what I have seen there were a couple different combinations of chips that where used in the 5200 cartridges. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 3, 2001 Share Posted August 3, 2001 In my prototypes I've seen 2, 3, and 4 EPROM's. They're usually labeled Lo, HI, Mid-Lo, Mid-HI. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
procyon Posted August 4, 2001 Author Share Posted August 4, 2001 Hey there. I'm new to this board. I looked to see if this was answered anywhere else first, but I didn't find anything so... Does anyone know why, for most of the 5200 games, there are 16k dumps and 32k dumps? Was this an error on the part of the dumper, or are there actually 16k and 32k carts for many of the games? Is there any difference in the code, or do the 32k carts simply have a mirror of the first 16k, or even just garbage data? Does anyone know for sure? Just curious. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 So what 5200 games/prototypes are 32k? I'm guessing that 'Rescue on Fractalus' and 'Ballblazer' are 32k, I know the 8-bit versions stated 48k...on the box... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted August 5, 2001 Share Posted August 5, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Tempest: In my prototypes I've seen 2, 3, and 4 EPROM's. They're usually labeled Lo, HI, Mid-Lo, Mid-HI. Tempest So are you suggesting that the eproms are 16k each? Or that the 32k is total memory, but with up to 4, 8k eproms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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