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    CIC (Nintendo) (redirect from 10NES)
    (NES) video game console in 1985; the chip is part of a system known as 10NES, in which a key (which is stored in the game) is used by the lock (stored...
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    1985 contains the 10NES lockout chip, which prevents it from running cartridges unapproved by Nintendo. The inclusion of the 10NES was a direct influence...
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    copyright infringement by copying Nintendo's lock-out system, the 10NES. The 10NES was designed to prevent Nintendo's video game console, the Nintendo...
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  • console using the 10NES chip. If the chip inside the cartridge conflicts with the chip inside the console, the game will not boot. The 10NES chip also doubled...
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  • cartridge, Baby Boomer is baby blue with a design altered to bypass Nintendo's 10NES copy protection system. After 35 years since the release date an official...
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    addition to the above content guidelines. Guidelines were enforced through the 10NES lockout chip. Licensees were not permitted to release the same game for...
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  • offshoot of Color Dreams, one of the first companies to work around Nintendo's 10NES lockout chip technology for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Color Dreams...
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  • lockout chip found in Nintendo's Nintendo Entertainment System (called 10NES), designed to prevent "unlicensed" manufacturers from creating games for...
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    2014-12-03. O'Donnell, Casey (2011). "The Nintendo Entertainment System and the 10NES Chip: Carving the Video Game Industry in Silicon". Games and Culture. 6...
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  • circumvent other methods that Nintendo created to stop unlicensed developers (10NES), HES developed the 'Piggy Back' or 'Dongle' games, where one could insert...
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  • proprietary 10NES system, a lockout chip which was designed to prevent cartridges made without the chip from being played on the NES. The 10NES lockout was...
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  • Bach, as the background music for the title screen. The game bypasses the 10NES lockout chip by emitting a voltage spike when the NES control deck is turned...
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    cartridges than the NES, which has a 72-pin design. Four pins are used for the 10NES lockout chip. Ten pins were added that connect a cartridge directly to the...
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  • Meanwhile, Tengen secretly worked to bypass Nintendo's lock-out chip called 10NES that prevented unlicensed NES games from running. While numerous manufacturers...
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    Casey (2009). "Production Protection to Copy(right) Protection: From the 10NES to DVDs". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 31 (3): 54–63. doi:10...
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  • com cited the device as one of the first video game parental controls. 10NES (lockout chip preventing games not authorized by Nintendo from running)...
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    Atari Games, about the rights to Tetris, and defended Nintendo's use of the 10NES lock-out chip. He represented the company in the 1993 United States Senate...
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    the spring-loaded mechanism in the original NES. The console removed the 10NES lockout chip, allowing it to play unlicensed games. The console also removed...
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    created the 10NES lockout system for NES games that required a special chip to be present in cartridges to be usable on NES systems. The 10NES helped to...
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  • games in East Asia was commonplace, aided by the Famicom's absence of the 10NES lockout chip included in North American versions of the Nintendo Entertainment...
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  • unlicensed games, Color Dreams had to bypass the NES's "lock out" chip (the 10NES). The company successfully bypassed the system, developed a game (Baby Boomer)...
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  • distance it from being a video game console. Further, Nintendo added a special 10NES lockout system that worked as a lock-and-key system with game cartridges...
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  • unlicensed games, the 10NES hardware lock-out mechanism of the original model NES complicates the production of physical cartridges. The 10NES chip can be permanently...
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  • differing key layouts. Since none of these unlicensed clones contain the 10NES authentication chip, most are capable of running games that an official...
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    cartridge was manufactured with read-only memory hardware, including a 10NES chip that prevented unauthorized games from booting on the Nintendo system...
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  • own cartridges that would bypass Nintendo's lock-out chip and break the 10NES "code". In virtually all of Camerica's games (including The Ultimate Stuntman)...
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  • cartridges by sharing more of the requisite componentry of each cartridge: 10NES lock-out chip, RAM, and extra circuitry. However, by the time the product...
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  • Vindicators was not licensed by Nintendo and used an alternate chip to defeat the 10NES lockout system. Ports were planned for the Atari Lynx and Apple IIGS, with...
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  • distributor, reverse engineering cartridges that would bypass Nintendo's 10NES lock-out chip. Like the circuit used in Color Dreams cartridges, Camerica's...
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    Nintendo 64 Game Pak contains a lockout chip (conceptually similar to the 10NES) to prevent production of unlicensed games and piracy. Unlike previous Nintendo...
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