Talk:Nintendo Power (cartridge)

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Can anybody find a (free or fair use) image of the Nintendo Power peripheral? Jeff Silvers 02:42, 10 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Not?) solving the piracy issue

From the article 'The NP cartridges solve the piracy issue by the fact that they are solid-state, as opposed to being a rewritable medium like the FDS, making their use in duplication limited.' How is that gonna work? Just because it is solid-state as opposed to a rotating magnetic medium does in no way automatically mean it is more difficult to duplicate. Does it have some kind of built-in copy-protection? Reading the FDS article, I'd assume that what this really means is that the FDS disks were easier to copy, because compatible drives were also used in other products, which may make disk duplication simple. On the other hand these cartridges must be pretty Nintendo-specific, so you'd have to have good knowledge about electronics to copy it. 217.189.227.95 (talk) 19:49, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think you just answered your own question. -sesuPRIME ^{talk • contribs} 23:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence about solid state is really nonsense. First of, FLASH and floppy disks are both rewriteable. And second, FLASH is much easier to write to.

Aside from the FLASH ROM and SRAM, there is a custom chip labeled MX15001 (in the SNES version), it does handle the memory mapping (for the game selection). If there is a copy protection, then that chip might also have a locking/unlocking mechanism that prevents writes to the FLASH chip.

So above two questions do still apply: Did it solve the picacy issue? And is there a built-in copy-protection? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.118.103.198 (talk) 00:10, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is the name related to the magazine at all?

I didn't see this answered in the article. For American readers, "Nintendo Power" is likely to bring to mind the Nintendo-owned magazine by that name. Does this product have any relation to that, or is it just coincidental? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjkucia (talk • contribs) 18:09, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]