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The Nintendo gameboy has this, to block unlicensed games. If the copyright message is not displayed by the cartridge at boot, the machine will refuse to play th
by lonelappde 7y ago
The Nintendo gameboy has this, to block unlicensed games. If the copyright message is not displayed by the cartridge at boot, the machine will refuse to play the game.
- xigency 7y agoThis is interesting in a couple of ways. First, I think it was ruled in court that a developer could use the Nintendo logo in their game for an unlicensed game because it was necessary to make it work. Nintendo's legal trap backfired. In another case, someone made a knockoff system from the GameBoy which would play the same games. The games they released would show their logo, I think it was Game Fighter, but in the code it actually contained the Nintendo logo. Basically tricking the system into running a game with a different startup logo.