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That's "disassembled and photographed". To some of us, "cracked open" would mean running a Hello World created outside the non-disclosure zone.
_________________
-- Where is he?
-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.

Oh, never thought about the other meanings of the word cracked, lol

wow ... 2 ICs and 3 surface mount components ... is all there is inside those DS carts?!

anyone know what those ICs are???

I'm guessing the smaller IC is the SRAM, and it has the extra solder pads there in case the game needs a more spacious SRAM chip.

Perhaps the big one is something similar to:
this (long url)

Although there's no exact match to the chip's labeling...[/url]

Well, the actual game ROM chip has 'NTR' (Nitro?) on it, so it's probably custom.

The small one is a EEPROM (not SRAM), the large one is the ROM.

As posted in another thread, it is a custom job, and tech tech is right - the Mask ROM is of the MX23L family. The most similar would be the MX23L12810 or MX23L12811 in the 44SOP package.

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DS development > DS And Cards - Disassembled And Photographed!

#29569 - PhoenixSoft - Mon Nov 22, 2004 2:03 am

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#29626 - starpause - Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:14 pm

#29630 - PhoenixSoft - Mon Nov 22, 2004 10:46 pm

#29633 - techtech - Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:43 pm

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