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From: kiuchi@sumax.UUCP (Usagi Yojimbo)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.games.video
Subject: Re: Nintendo Cartridge Internals
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Date: 13 Dec 90 01:00:05 GMT
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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..