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Comment by bluescrn

2 years ago

Not just modern consoles. Nintendo has had ‘security’ hardware built in since the NES (the CIC chip)

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ThatPlayer  2 years ago

The difference is those security chips were used to prevent unlicensed games, not to prevent the games from being played on unlicensed consoles (emulators).

A NES clone without a CIC will play games fine.

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