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Nintendo's Origins

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Nintendo of America Is a Nintendo Signed Cryptographic Game

It's effectively a Nintendo signed cryptographic thing. Unless you actually go through Nintendo to make sure you get the specific chip with the specific cryptography and put it in the cartridge, it's not going to run on them. Later versions of the Famicom in Japan would also include a lockout chip on them. So they try and retroactively also bring this to the Japanese market. But Nintendo of America is like, obviously a lot of people in the ecosystem are going to hate this.

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