EA's MegaDrive/Genesis cartridges

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Re: EA's MegaDrive/Genesis cartridges

Postby MrKite » Wed May 3, '17, 3:28 pm

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.
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