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Holy smokes! What a list of resources.

The official developer manual? I want to flip through that just to learn more about the system and the context for game development at the time.

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Get ready to scroll if you do. The first significant chunk of the document was around Nintendo's (in)famous licensing process and instructions. It wasn't surprising, but confirms a lot about what we hear regularly about Nintendo of the 80s and 90s being hard to work with because of licensing and the way they treat third-party developers.

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