It’s been a while but here’s an update!
I haven’t visited Bakersfield yet, though I did visit Don’s Arcade for the first time and that was great.
Back on topic: Luckily my work has an eprom UV eraser and an eprom programmer/reader thing. I asked my boss and am allowed to use those for my personal projects.
I may not exactly know what I need to do to reprogram my faulty eprom, but at least I have the hardware to be able to do so. I plan on looking into it soon! Hopefully my board will be fully functional very soon!
Thank you to everyone!