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Article #8913Re: Nintendo Cartridge Internals
From: Usagi Yojimbo
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 01:00
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 01:00
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The way the games are put on the Nintendo "cartridges" is by they are fed the program by a source machine whatever.. In the same way that a record is made, the source code is put onto the circuit board as a meal.. or program.. that is why they are impossible to copy. Or if they could be copied you would need a lot of equipment (probably which would cost more than buying each game). Anyways, that is what I know from Japan, when they were first there, a person could go to a machine (like buying a coca cola) insert the yen.... let their cartridge be fed a certain code, and THUS erasing the old game..
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!ogicse!milton!uw-beaver!sumax!kiuchi From: kiuchi@sumax.UUCP (Usagi Yojimbo) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.games.video Subject: Re: Nintendo Cartridge Internals Message-ID: <1716@sumax.UUCP> Date: 13 Dec 90 01:00:05 GMT References: <1990Dec10.172238.18313@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <52032@bsu-ucs.uucp> Reply-To: kiuchi@sumax.seattleu.edu.UUCP (Usagi Yojimbo) Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA Lines: 10