Fabien Sanglard personal blog
Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges
One of the remarkable characteristics of the Super Nintendo was the ability for game cartridges (cart) to pack more than instructions and assets into ROM chips. If we open and look at the PCBs, we can find inside things like the CIC copy protection chip, SRAM, and even "enhancement processors".
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Hardware & ElectronicsHistory & Retro Computing2024
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 22, 2024 | Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges by zdw | 548 | 153 |
| Apr 26, 2026 | The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) by offbyone42 | 175 | 29 |
