thebitman wrote:katsumbhong wrote:To my understanding the 64M EMS carts on a MGB drain the regular batteries quick (~15-minutes). A fix to this would be using batteries with more juice.
Not quite true, most "newer" 64M carts work just fine, it had to do with earlier versions of the cart not drawing power correctly. I think it may be worthwhile at some point to survey the cart revision numbers like we have the DMG CPU's to see where the discrepancies are.
on the back of the cart shells the EMS carts come in, they mark the date of assembly,
the cartridges from batch "1006A" (which is June, 2010, batch A) and onwards don't seem to have pocket problems at all. there was a batch "1006" too, this didn't get the fix
there is probably a corresponding PCB revision that goes with this, but who knows that was a while ago and they are out over the world now, might be hard to get solid info on that. "1006A" assembly date works though, i remember when that batch came along very well