Issue making TMNT 1 MMC3 Reproduction

I'm using a TLROM board. I applied infidelity's MMC3 patch from v9.1 to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (U).nes and the resulting rom plays fine on my Everdrive N8 and in FECUX.

I split and pad it my normal way using famirom and solder the programmed eprom down using these directions:
PRG ROM:
Pin 1 Nothing!
Pin 2 Hole 24
Pin 24 Pin 16 (or another ground)
Pin 30 Hole 1
Pin 31 Hole 2

CHR ROM:
Pin 1 Nothing!
Pin 2 Hole 24
Pin 22 Hole 31
Pin 24 Hole 2
Pin 30 Hole 1
Pin 31 Nothing!

The resulting game starts but is graphically garbled and then freezes. Tieing A18 and A19 to high/low has no impact.

Here's pics: http://imgur.com/a/Yk7Ma

Anyone have any ideas?

Best guess: bad UVEPROM.

I actually have tried it on 2 different TLROM donor boards and 4 total different eprom, same issue on them all.
I almost feel like it's got to be something with the patch. Which if that's the case I doubt I'd be able to fix it as assembly is a bit over my head

Are you sure? The board in your picture says TLSROM, which is not compatible with the "standard" MMC3 configuration.

Ah good catch, the other board I tried it on with the same end issue/result is TLROM
http://i.imgur.com/WGSzPHh.jpg

TLSROM can be rewired to behave as TLROM and vice versa. Besides, if it were just the TLSROM, the symptoms would be those of wrong mirroring.

That patched rom is using WRAM. You need a TSROM board.

Both famirom and nesmapperprogram showed me no RAM. Is there another way to double check to see if it does need WRAM?

On emulators, the RAM is always there. The bit in the header says if it's battery-backed or not.

To be sure if it uses WRAM, set a breakpoint on accesses to $6000-$7FFF.

ah ok it does have this in debugger as a breakpoint when I set it to 6000 to 7FFF read/write

07:CEAA:8D 00 60 STA $6000 = #$03

famirom can only tell if a rom uses wram if there's a battery, where ram is implied, or the rom builder set the non-standard ram units value. so when it says "not specified" that doesn't mean zero ram, it means neither of those values are set and it can't make a determination.

Ok I put it on a TSROM board and the graphics are even worse than before but I can hear the music of the game running.