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So what was wrong with the NES-001? Well...Well…

* NOA's industrial designers made the console look like a VCR, adopting a VCR-like front-loading cartridge. DueTo toease expensesinsertion, a "zero insertion force" mechanism was used (put a cart in, fix it with a lever)...but…which saidallowed mechanismcrud endedto build up putting great force on the pinscontacts inespecially both cart and connectoreasily, bendingsince themthe slightlynormal more“scrubbing” withaction eachon insertion and shovingremoval theis ROMpractically board back into theabsent cartridgehere.

* The infamous 10NES lockout chip, required for all NES cartridges. While intended to keep unlicensed games from being used, the fact that it required a constant connection meant that constant usage of the system made it block even the licensed titles (hence why the system occasionally resets once per second). The Famicom didn't have this problem because it had '''''no''''' lockout chip (or any contact problems in the first place, all due to being a traditional top-loader).

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…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.