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Nintendo Family Computer (Famicom) Teardown

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  • Breaking Gently releasing the retaining clips holding the cartridge together reveals a 60 pin printed circuit board.

  • Front and back sides of the Famicom cartridges:

  • This PCB from a Tennis cartridge has two ROM packages -- totaling 24 KB -- soldered to one side.

  • For comparison, a single layer Blu-ray disc has a 25,000,000 KB capacity.

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