Removing an EPROM from a Sega Prototype / Test Cartridge

Nix McRetro // 20th January 2013 // Guides, Sega, YouTube

So I was thinking, why not?

What a fun video it turned out to be!

The practical part here is removing the EPROM from the cartridge board without damaging either the chip or the PCB.

I described this at the time as a Sega prototype or test cartridge.

I no longer have enough surviving documentation in this post to establish its exact provenance, so I would not use the board itself as proof that it was a particular kind of Sega development cartridge.

The hardware is still worth documenting, and safely removing the EPROM gives me the opportunity to preserve and inspect its contents separately.

More questionable cartridge surgery successfully completed.

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