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I think one reason Nintendo made the adapter external is so that not as much of the product has to be certified (e.g. UL listed) for high voltage (e.g. 100-220 V) operation. Certifying the supply (NES-002) was probably a lot cheaper than certifying the Control Deck (NES-001/101). ...

Solaris is UNIX certified, as is macOS. Another pattern I've seen is "*n?x".

... compression capabilities, allowing micro-optimizations to rendering paths that take those into account. Computers where all applications are certified by the operating system publisher, and end users don't have to worry about having to leave the safety of the official store to play a particular ...

A forum search for username "tepples" and word "certified" brought up several posts stating the conventional wisdom about why CV3 uses MMC5.

... AV complain only about those .exe files that aren't produced by an organization with a valid software publisher certificate issued by a Microsoft-certified Authenticode CA? Are you not a member of the Administrators group on the PC you use? Or is it behind a web proxy that intercepts all HTTP ...

... or two features. Some 72-pin games might use a sophisticated mapper just because it was cheaper to use Nintendo's MMCs than to get its own ASIC certified, such as Castlevania III which was hacked from Konami's own VRC6 to MMC5 outside Japan. But anything that uses MMC5 ExGrafix is going to be ...

rainwarrior wrote:Many of the few MMC5 games don't seem to even use its audio features.

For one thing, the best known MMC5 game uses MMC5 probably because Konami found that cheaper than getting VRC6 certified by NOA. For another, no 72-pin games use the audio features, and this best known MMC5 game is 72-pin only.

... But unlike Koei games, CV3 doesn't really use ExGrafix; instead, it uses MMC5 because it was cheaper for Konami than getting a VRC series mapper certified by NOA. The graphical detail of CV3 was due to Konami artists having cut their teeth on the limitations of the TI VDPs in the MSX and MSX2 ...

... can only give out a small number of valid invitation codes per month, like early Orkut? Or do you mean like Advogato, which requires that users be certified by other users in order to post outside their own blog?

... product's license has a purpose. The Qmail license has a similar purpose. It just doesn't happen to be the same purpose as those of the GNU, OSI Certified, or Debian projects. Sorry if I've offended you, but I would ask that you please reconsider what you believe to be free, and stop going by ...