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title: writing an nes game - inside the cartridge
date: "2014-10-14T12:00:00"
tags: [hacker school, nes]
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As an aside, this is what the inside of an NES cartridge looks like:

![cartridge image](/blog/cartridge.jpg)

Note specifically the two physical ROM banks, one labeled PRG and the other
labeled CHR (and basically nothing else on the circuit board).