Scooter83 #1 Posted January 8, 2014 Well today my Pac-Man cart arrived in the mail today. As the seller told me, she ended up putting a home made label on this cart since it had no label at all. Story goes she thinks she picked it up from a craigslist seller out of Louisiana Like with any interesting oddity item my first idea was lets open it up and see what I can see inside. The first think I checked was the board. C015783 Rev. A with the initials RJF. This is the same as the C015783 Rev A board in my CPS 810 cart. The Pac Lo and Pac Hi labels seem to be in very good shape still and holding up well on the EEProm chips. Plugging this game in on start up showed screen that looks like the final version. The woman didn't know if it was a complete game or a partial or what it was. The start screen looked a little different. ( I can manage to replicate this on the final version on some reboots, so I dont know if its a glitch to the game or what that was later fixed ). I did manage to record a little game play on my cell phone ( when my main PC gets fixed ill upload everything ) but plays the same and didnt notice any real differences in the first 2 minutes of play. As I discussed with Tempest about this title. It could be an employee in house burning a copy for himself , a tester/reviewer copy of the game, or a final stage prototype , but he was leaning towards an employee making the game for himself, but the only way to know is to match up the code from a dump. Which will most likely be the next option for me. There was some glue stains on the top of the metal cart ( where LEFT CARTRIDGE is located). Not sure if there was an Atari company logo or something after Atari , will never know. Also Ive seen a few posts on Atari Age about 1st article copies of Pac_Man. 3/782 i think and 4/8/82 i think. Still trying to find out what that is about and working on getting board pics of those to compare to what I have incase what i have is a 1st Article copy ( and then I will research who and what they did ). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kjmann #2 Posted January 8, 2014 The fact that it has two chips would make me assume that it is a 16k cart. if that is the case, this may be a version with the animation included. also the label looks like something that Bruce over at B&C might have done. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Defender II #3 Posted January 8, 2014 The fact that it has two chips would make me assume that it is a 16k cart. if that is the case, this may be a version with the animation included. also the label looks like something that Bruce over at B&C might have done. The EPROMs are 2532 = 4Kx8 each so that is 8Kx8 total = 8K cartridge. The label was made by the seller (Linda & Felix Pereira) according to the auction. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #4 Posted January 8, 2014 -45 at the end of the part name, probably access time in ns. Seems a bit quick for something from the 80s. Possibly it was made in more modern times, and the corruption is a result of programming from a bad dump or maybe it's just acccumulated a few errors over the years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kjmann #5 Posted January 8, 2014 The EPROMs are 2532 = 4Kx8 each so that is 8Kx8 total = 8K cartridge. The label was made by the seller (Linda & Felix Pereira) according to the auction. I see now. I didn't catch the numbers the first time i looked. I never saw the auction Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scooter83 #6 Posted January 9, 2014 Who can tell me about the 2 possible versions of this game? and any info on the carts posted in another post about "1st article" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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