31st March 2012, 1:15 AM
Quote:I have to assume the Honeybee adapter had a Tengen-style counterfeit version of the 10NES in there (or a voltage spike or some other similar bypass for the 10NES). Either that, or it comes with a note that it won't work on the original NES.
It certainly has to work with the original NES; that's what the cloth strip attached to the adapter is for, after all, to pull on to help get it out of an original NES... but you know, there are a lot of unlicensed NES games. I doubt that they all use 10NES chips, so there must be a way of using games on a NES without a 10NES chip, or something... either there's a workaround or replacement, has to be. It's the SNES that has lockout that couldn't be gotten around, so that one unlicensed SNES game had to use a passthrough in order to work. With the NES that wasn't needed.