When publishers send out advanced copies of games for either review or preview, they will sometimes arrive in the form of ROM cartridges. For those of you that might be interested in what they look like, here’s a couple of pictures of the Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll cartridge. If you’ll notice, that the ROM cart reads “Property of Sega of America.” When I finished reviewing this title, I had to send the cartridge back to Sega. I’ve never been allowed to keep a ROM cartridge. For a size comparison the second pic shows a standard DS cartridge next to the ROM cartridge.
It seems like Sega and Atlus are the companies that are most likely to send out these ROM cartridges. It’s not very common to receive a ROM cartridge from a publisher unless you are dealing with a pretty early review or preview. Normally the review copy of the game just comes on the standard retail version of the DS cartridge.
I’m debating whether or not I’ve used the word cartridge enough in this post…
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