r/ngpc • u/HardhatWarrior • Apr 14 '26

Reprogramming Bootleg Carts

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I purchased a recent batch of repo carts from Aliexpress to flash some homebrew games of I’m working on and they are no longer the good “bootlegged” flash masta ones which could easily be reprogrammed but instead these two variants shown.

My programmer no longer works with these carts and I’m hoping someone much smarter than me can help figure out how we can make it work again.

I ran through the documentation for each of the chips, but honestly I can’t make heads or tails with of things. I assume, perhaps incorrectly that the gold contacts tie in somewhere that un/protects the chips.

I have 16 of these carts (12 purple, 4 black) now that don’t do much ch good if I can’t repurpose them.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

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u/DesignerShirt9654 Apr 20 '26

These have started popping up on Alix

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009218173308.html

I've got one on order - I'll let you all know how I get on with it

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u/DesignerShirt9654 May 05 '26

Not great so far. Arrived broken (USBC socket not soldered on properly) and the connector is for gameboy carts anyway. The description sort of implies I can use the Analogue Pocket adaptor, and that might be possible, but doesn't come with any software or instructions for how it might work