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[[File:MS3prog.jpg|thumb|Metal Slug 3 first revision PROG board]]
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Some [[MVS cartridge]]s were shipped with a special NeoGeo Pocket cartridge-like daughterboard replacing one of the [[P ROM]]s on [[PROGLBA]] PROG boards by flash memory.
Some [[MVS cartridge]]s were shipped with a special NeoGeo Pocket cartridge-like daughterboard replacing two of the [[P ROM]]s on [[PROGLBA]] PROG boards by flash memory.


This practice is tought to be used for shortening the time-to-market of some games, allowing to start production without having the games fully debugged. This board allowed easy servicing of first versions of the game programs: If a critical bug was found, carts could be easily reprogrammed using SNK's NGPC flash writer which was certainly sitting somewhere in their [[SNK factories|factory]].
This practice is thought to have been used for shortening the time-to-market of some games, allowing to start production without having the games fully debugged. This board allowed easy servicing of first versions of the game programs: If a critical bug was found, carts could be easily reprogrammed using SNK's NGPC flash writer which was certainly sitting somewhere in their [[SNK factories|factory]].


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Latest revision as of 17:14, 7 June 2017

Metal Slug 3 first revision PROG board

Some MVS cartridges were shipped with a special NeoGeo Pocket cartridge-like daughterboard replacing two of the P ROMs on PROGLBA PROG boards by flash memory.

This practice is thought to have been used for shortening the time-to-market of some games, allowing to start production without having the games fully debugged. This board allowed easy servicing of first versions of the game programs: If a critical bug was found, carts could be easily reprogrammed using SNK's NGPC flash writer which was certainly sitting somewhere in their factory.