godsey1 Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 Hi everyone. I was cleaning some NES cartridges today and ran across this one: Out of around 300 or so, this is the first one that I have found. Does anyone know if other games than Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt used this PCB? I just though that it was odd looking. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 I saw one like that in a Gyromite cart I opened. Nothing special about it AFAIK. Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bratwurst Posted May 8, 2004 Share Posted May 8, 2004 A Gyromite cart? I didn't know Nintendo made glop-tops that far back. Really eeeenteresting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susuwatari Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 I have a Pinball cart (with a Famicom converter) that has the black epoxy as well. Personally, I think less than 1% of all NES games used the black blob because that's about how many I've found out of the few hundred I've opened. SNES OTOH is more like 50% of what I open has the black blob. Cart that uses game save rarely have any black blob though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Hierophant Posted May 9, 2004 Share Posted May 9, 2004 The secret is out, Nintendo used epoxy at times. Actually, for any non-complex mass produced cart Nintendo could use epoxy. However, I have only seen early NES and GB carts to use glop tops. Typically the ones that use glop tops are usually mapperless games. (Super Mario/Duck Hunt uses a simple mapper.) I know that Tetris for the Gameboy came in a glop top. I would not be surprised if Super Mario World also came in glop top form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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