flavoredthunder

Are these not the same images used in the last copy cart auction? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...=ADME:B:SS:US:1

what do you think a good "best offer" would be for the copy cart? I have never seen one before though I have always been interested in them. Later, Mark

Hi to test my theory if the person bidding was also the seller I asked the "high bidder" a question about the shipping costs. Here is my questions I asked to "duckster167" (the current high bidder) HE then responded to be from the seller address!!! If this is not shill bidding I don't know what is!

still no book for me, but I can't wait!

not just joined submitted his bid less than an hour after it was listed. Doesn't it take an hour for the item to show up?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 can you say shill bidder?

I agree with everything you said, Nintendo was the 800 pound gorilla in the market place and so they could insure their profitability from the consumer and the 3rd-party developers (charging them three times what it cost to produce the chips and regulating that they could only produce two games a year). I don't want to use old CIC chips because they varied so much over the lifetime of their manufacturing, plus there is a "ship in the bottle" sort of challenge in making the chip that Atari and all other third-party developers failed to make. The question that remains to be answered is "is it legal". The last thing I want is Nintendo breathing down my next over a small run of art games. Do you know if the CIC varied from board to board depending on the memory map locations?

This is the actual patent for the lock-out chip http://www.freepatentsonline.com/patents/u...635/4799635.pdf This is the registration information for the copyright to the 10NES source code 1. Registration Number: TX-1-945-426 Title: 10NES software. Description: printout. Claimant: Nintendo of America, Inc. Created: 1985 Published: 1Oct85 Registered: 1Dec86 Author on © Application: computer program: Sharp Corporation, employer for hire. Miscellaneous: C.O. corres. Special Codes: 1/C

This patent claims to get around the nintendo lock out chip http://www.freepatentsonline.com/patents/u...232/5004232.pdf

Hi Actually, I have read this, it is really only good for disabling the NES console itself but not replicating the actual lockout (or more importantly spoofing the lock-key algorithm) chip. I am interested in making a limited number of home-brew Nintendo games without having to butcher old games for their lock-out chips. This is why I am looking for info on the 10nes. I know that people have made carts with 5-volt stun circuits (color dreams etc.) but later versions of the NES were un-stunable. So I think the best approach is to try to compete directly with the 10NES.

Does anyone know what the exact document number was used for the 10nes copyright? I must assume that after twenty years it should have expired by now. I was able to find the patent on the 10nes chip design but not the source-code. Does anyone have the source to the 10nes or the rabbit chip?

Hi This is a little off the subject but is anyone on this list a previous programmer for the tengen line of NES games from Atari? Thanks! Mark

I did, I can't wait to get it! Nothing like a history of video games straight from the horse's mouth.

Yes Robotron 2084. The game just got faster and faster until you died. http://www.klov.com/R/Robotron__2084.html