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Jesse at Pandagon has posted about what just may be the most important news in the history of, er, history. The patent on the OG NES has finally expired, which means we can now swim in hot, unadulterated universal NES goodness. Viva CTS!

Greg, currently honeymooning very far away, just felt his nerd senses tingling.

UPDATE: I may need to provide a bit more information. Now that the patent on the OG NES technology has expired, it is now legal to make and sell NES machines that play both NES games and Famicom games. They should just call this ALL-Region NES, because that would be awesome. Most importantly, seriously, wireless NES controllers!! So, um, click that link up there and see for yourself?


posted by Ross Lincoln on September 13, 2005 @ 12:04 pm

5 comments

  1. me confused.

    Comment by tomN! — September 13, 2005 @ 2:08 pm

  2. what about the games? do you have to find old cartridges to play? or are they gonna start remaking the games?

    Comment by tomN! — September 13, 2005 @ 3:10 pm

  3. Remaking the games is still subject to existing copyright laws – you’ll have to track the cartrigdes down, which sounds like a bad deal. However, the main issue playing old cartiridge games is that the hardware, not the cartridge, breaks down.

    Usually, all you need to do to keep an old cartridge game working is to clean the external part of the board that connects the game to the system clean with alcohol.

    Comment by Ross A Lincoln — September 13, 2005 @ 3:54 pm

  4. NERRRDDDDDDSSS!!!!!

    haha, man, my duck hunting finger is itching…

    Comment by Arun Butcher — September 13, 2005 @ 6:17 pm

  5. Nerd? NERD? Look man, I just finshed working out, don’t make me kick sand into my own face.

    Comment by Ross A Lincoln — September 14, 2005 @ 11:54 am

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