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Why so? Well, the Big N [[Cash Cow Franchise|reaped enormous profits]] from being the sole manufacturer of the carts for its system, and thus [[Executive Meddling|being able to decide]] what gets published, in what amount, for what price, and what the developers would have from it. While the Japan branch was able to enforce it without resorting to technical means, the American one was wary of the Atari situation when everybody and their dog was producing carts for the [[Atari 2600]]…hence the 10NES and 72-pin cartridge. But in a brilliant bit of [[Idiot Programming|Idiot Hardware Design]], NOA engineers removed two pins that connected the motherboard to the sound extension chips in the cart and rerouted the original Famicom expansion port to the cartridge connector, ensuring that American releases would have inferior sound and that the FDS would never work on the NES.
The NES-101 (aka "NES 2"), a top-loader styled after the Super NES and a bit after the original Famicom, was released in 1993 and not only used a
[[Nintendo Entertainment System/Trivia|See here for the system specs.]]
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