Who to go to for repros?

[Anapan]

There's a few homebrew roms and romhacks I'd like to have in cartridge form. It seems to be trivial for some people to make these because they have the right equipment. I have an eeprom programmer, but it's for a specific atmega chip, and I have no idea if I could get an adapter to match the legs up to a standard cartridge board (seems like the wrong way to go anyway).
Since I only want a few carts made up, can someone recommend a capable engineer or company? I'm interested in NES, Genesis, SNES, and maybe Gameboy.

I don't know what these cost to make. I already have flash carts for nearly every system that has them available, so I'll be taking cost into account what I decide which I'll have made - hopefully I can make a volume discount deal (or save on shipping).

[MrPopo]

Now that Ziggy is no longer in the business I've used a few different places for repro carts. They all have fairly similar prices that will very for a particular game between different sellers by about $5 or so.

http://www.ocdreproductions.com/
http://superreproductions.com/
http://retroquestgames.com/

I've had good results with all three; I switch between them because different sites have different inventory.

[Tanooki]

If you're looking for hacks, you're looking for bootlegs, warez, not reproductions. The list in that second post, the 3 of them make bootlegs. If you're after a real reproduction that's where you buy something that's not illegal and Piko Interactive has those.

Those makers listed though do the nicest quality bootlegs, though I think they mix chop shop (mutilation of a legit game) and new parts. I'd suggest for long term lasting durability to find someone who uses new parts only.

[Anapan]

Thanks for the links and clarification. Yeah, I'm definitely looking for a warez cart-slaughter-chopshop job! I'll even provide the carts if that'd make a difference (I'll try to make them unloved sports games if someone's concerned about the sacrificial lambs). I'll check the links out and find one that can do all the consoles I'm interested in.
If the price is right I'll probably get Megacrap as well as Mario Vs. Airman.

[mjmjr25]

I use Joe Thomas (or I did when I was collecting them) and he does excellent work, has been around longer, and charges less, than just about everyone else.

He goes by coinheaven on NA and this is his site: http://thenesdump.com/?refreshed

He will (or did) do a ton of stuff on request - just need to message him through the site or forum.

[Tanooki]

NA may stink but some members there are real gems (I mean that nicely not sarcasm) and Joe (coinheaven) is definitely one of them as are the Nolan Brothers too with their antics in buying protos and releasing/special releasing and dropping the ROMS on those. The only chop shopped games I have are a copy of SNES games, 2 of them, SDF Macross and Starfox 2, but the guy who made it quit doing it a couple years back and his work was top notch. I don't like buying them that way but neither are or can be(SF2) made with new parts.

Your best bet if you want to be unshackled, get the parts you need from the Infinite NES Lives board. They sell a 'kazoo' writer which plugs into the PC, and then they sell a crap ton of varying boards for both the NES and the SNES. Just $25 for NES+SNES (add $5 for Famicom too) for the writer.

NES boards and SNES boards range in price, but it's totally fair (fairly cheap) and lots of custom stuff too like even do it yourself on Mr Gimmick!
http://www.infiniteneslives.com/aux4.php
http://www.infiniteneslives.com/aux5.php

Just do this and have someone print you a nice shiny label if you can't make one yourself on a laser with a high quality shiny laminate label. SOme of the newer or more educated groups are going this route or buying junk from China in bulk to get the price even cheaper. It saves old games (even crap ones) from death and it's more reliable.

[ninjainspandex]

I used gamereproductions.com when they were doing 10 for $350 shipped and 1 of the 10 could be one of the premium hard to make game like Star Ocean or Star Fox 2. So at $35 a pop and one was Star Ocean which is a rather pricey one to have made due to the rom size, it was the best deal I could find. But be warned they have very slow turnaround to get your carts, normally takes more than a month. Though he is very nice and kept me updated and responds pretty quickly to emails, and due to my long wait he through in a free Star Fox 2 cart so that was just fine with me . I also tipped him off about Ys V just being translated so he made the first one and gave me a good discount, $30 shipped for a cart.

[Tanooki]

That guy is a local to me here, he does good work and is a nice guy. If you're close enough you can even skip the shipping and go pick it up, or in my case I was so close years ago I had to the door delivery.