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cubefoxyesterday at 12:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

I never saw a piggyback cartridge at the time though, or one that was obviously unlicensed. Of course, this could have more to do with Nintendo's legal pressure than with technological possibility.


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monocasayesterday at 5:26 PM

The main pirating route at the time (a device (oh which there were several) that sat under the N64 and had either an Iomega Zip drive or a CD drive for holding ROMs), had a port for inserting a real cartridge to use its lockout chip.

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inigyouyesterday at 12:40 PM

I think a lot of the early flashcarts were piggybacks. I was never into that scene though.