For those curious: > "The game would only start if the word was correctly in place in the ROM. If anyone wanted to produce a game without Nintendo's permission

For those curious: > "The game would only start if the word was correctly in place in the ROM. If anyone wanted to produce a game without Nintendo's permission, they would be claiming to use the word 'Nintendo' without a licensed trademark, and therefore Nintendo would be in a position to sue them for trademark infringement. We figured out that with just a resistor and capacitor - around 1 cent's worth of components - we could find out how to beat the protection. The system read the word 'Nintendo' twice - once to print it on the screen at the boot up, and a second time to check if it was correct before starting the game cartridge. That was a fatal mistake, because the first time they read 'Nintendo' we got it to return 'Argonaut', so that was what dropped down the screen. On the second check, our resistor and capacitor powered up so the correct word 'Nintendo' was in there, and the game booted up perfectly." Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-04-born-slippy-the-making-of-star-fox http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-04-born-slippy-the...