R-90-2 wrote:Basically, the EA cartridges looked different different because in order to force Sega to allow its games on the Genesis without having to deal with Sega's then-restrictive licensing practices, EA reverse-engineered the Sega Genesis and built their own Genesis development platforms, and then went into producing their own cartridges in-house not only for themselves, but also planned to produce cartridges for other developers and publishers at a lower cost than Sega unless Sega loosened up on their licensing program.
The yellow clip cover is there to cover up a part of the assembly procedure and to protect the PCB from the elements that it might otherwise be exposed to due to a hole in the case.
Interesting bit of info.