Hey all!

A local Portlander got her hands on a Grey white lable test card, the lable looks suspect but with these test carts it could be a home made or something else.

Anyway, a few of us are trying to check its legitamacy, the chips are from 84/86 but can still be bought new old stock.

I know there is a couple of Test Cart pro's here that have the POWER!

EEPROMS:

MBM2764-30 Fujitsu RO is from 84 but you can still buy them new old stock, the MBM27256-75 RO is from 86 and still can be bought today from new old stock.

bunnyboy, Limbofunk, Penguine?!

Oh and the cart is not for sale, please do not ask  

Thank you in advance!

Photos attached!






 

Am I seeing a glossy label? To my knowledge those labels were simply printed without gloss. I remember the guy who I bought mine from specifically told me not to try and clean the label as the ink would just smudge. The color seems ok, white with a hint of yellow from time

Lable is glossy, good eye!

I cannot recall if mine were or not, and my Famicom Testcart is buried in my NES Test Station. But yes I am with you as far as I now these were cut like retail lables but had no gloss.



 

If my memory is correct the only service carts with glossy labels are the NTF2 ones but I have no way of knowing if that's a definitive answer.

Date codes on the EPROMs look good. Label color looks good to me. Does the label glow under blacklight?

The printed label on the CHR EPROM is very similar in style to those used on old Nintendo arcade PCBs. Look up photos of, say, a Donkey Kong or Popeye PCB and you'll see what I mean.

And, after searching said info on the chip, it looks like the chip may have been recycled from a Punch-Out!! arcade PCB? If that is indeed the case (which it seems like it is), then chances are high that it is legit. It'd be very odd for someone making a fake to just randomly use an EPROM scavenged from an old Punch-Out!! Rev. B board.

I believe the label may be fake after more research.

As noted previously the only label I know of that is laminated is NTF2.
The corners are rounded a bit much.
Other examples of the Control Deck Test Cartridge do not have the trademark symbol after World Class Service, they have a period. (http://www.gamesniped.com/wp-cont... and http://nintendoagemedia.com/users... and http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFg...~5/$_1.JPG)

The font on the top label is wrong. It's too compact and the E spacing is not even like it is on a real label I rotated them and sized them to match. (it also appears too bold)

If as asked above the label glows brightly under black light the paper contains an optical brightener which were more widely used in more modern paper for it to appear more white. Even if the paper was artificially aged the optical brightener would still be present. If it was also printed with a modern home printer you'd likely find yellow microdots in the image. https://www.eff.org/issues/printe...

Good stuff guys!

Thank you for the info so far!

Corners should be pointy.
Also Shinju check the back label. Test carts should not have any embroidered numbers.

The label is clearly a reprint. The board looks correct to me, along with age to the EPROM stickers. These grey test carts were sold later in the service programs life, and many of them didn't even have labels, which was probably the case for this one, so someone printed a label for it.

Thank you Penguin.

This is exactly what I was thinking too but just wanted someone with a little more knowledge behind them to verify the boards legitamacy.

Thank you everyone for your input and help!