A brief history and technical deep dive into the Nintendo CIC and 10NES Lockout System.

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References

Wikipedia: CIC (Nintendo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Ni...)
NesDev Wiki: CIC lockout chip https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/CIC_locko...
NesDev Forums: Reverse Engineering the CIC https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.p...
SHARP Microcomputers Data Book (1990) http://bitsavers.org/components/sharp...
Patent Arcade Case: Atari v. Nintendo (N.D. Cal. 1993) [C, P] http://patentarcade.com/2005/08/case...
Video Games and Reverse Engineering http://www.jthtl.org/content/articles...
US Patent 4799635A (The Nintendo 10NES Patent) https://patents.google.com/patent/US4...

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Power Punch by 2050
Where by Tobias Bergson
The Chosen by Notize
Midnight Tokyo by Downtown Binary

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
2:08 Motivations
6:29 Technical Details
12:16 Circumvention
18:04 Conclusion

CC Attributions

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