To combat unlicensed games and win back confidence of retailers in North America and Europe, the NES and all licensed games came with a lockout chip known as the 10NES or CIC. In this episode we take a look at this chip , the clone chip that was developed by Atari and how it took 20 years for the homebrew community to reverse engineer the chip and the challenges they faced. ► Consider supporting me - https://www.patreon.com/ModernVintageGamer Links and Credits: ► Reverse Engineering the Nintendo 64 CIC RECon 2015 (Credits : Mike Ryan, John McMaster, FPGA_Nugga) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwEdqAb2l50 ► Tengen Rabbit Chip Pic - Gaming Historian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLA_d9q6ySs ► Ninja Gaiden Gameplay - xRavenXP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUNTSP9PBuA ► Reverse Engineering the CIC - http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=1219 ► 10NES Original Patent - https://patents.google.com/patent/US4799635A/en ► What happened with SNES CIC reverse engineering? - http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5676&sid=f41f9d0da98e170810e9e75b737a9ac2 ► The weird and wonderful CIC - https://hackmii.com/2010/01/the-weird-and-wonderful-cic/ ► Breaking Integrated Circuit Device Security through Test Mode Silicon Reverse Engineering - http://analysis.seclab.tuwien.ac.at/papers/ccsfp221-kammerstetter.pdf Social Media Links : ► Check me out on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/ModernVintageGamer ► BandCamp : https://modernvintagegamer.bandcamp.com/ ► The Real MVP Podcast : https://player.fm/series/the-real-mvp ► Follow me on Twitter : https://twitter.com/ModernVintageG #Nintendo #10NES #AntiPiracy