EA Games Cartridges

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The only time I've seen Game Informer talk about the Genesis was on a "Then and Now" which had a part about crappy d-pads, comparing the 3-button controller's d-pad to that of the Xbox 360's controller.

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It had to be done

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I don't remember it talking about any of the games that in depth except for Madden, the basic premise of the article was EA talking about how they did very well starting out by getting much better licensing from Sega because they were able to show them they could develop games independently without their authorization.

This was pre-TMSS though and they only realized later how lucky they were because the TMSS could have blown their whole "independent developer" status out of the water if they were getting locked out for unauthorized games (just like what happend to Accolade/Ballistic). It was a neat article, an it was a surprise reading about the Sega Genesis in Game Informer though, that's for sure.

Accolade got around the TMSS, EA could have too.

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Accolade got around the TMSS, EA could have too.

The only known EA games that have problems with TMSS is Budokan (NTSC), Populous (NTSC), and early versions of Zany Golf. All the others work fine. It appears as though they DID get around it.

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Well this is interesting. I just figured the EA games had a battery in them... since I only have sports ones. I never tried to open a Genesis cart before.

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The only known EA games that have problems with TMSS is Budokan (NTSC), Populous (NTSC), and early versions of Zany Golf. All the others work fine. It appears as though they DID get around it.

I could be wrong, but I didn't think EA had to "get around" the TMSS. After those initial three releases, they got their licensing deal. Accolade, on the other hand, reverse engineered the TMSS and continued to release unlicensed games, resulting in Accolade v. Sega. The Appeals court ruled in favor of Accolade, ruling that their circumvention was fair use.