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Until somebody finds the right die to use to cue the covers. Reminds of the concert venue that was using a hole punch to indicate to the bouncers the person had floor access. Somebody had a pocket knife and everyone was gathered around the corner trying to cut round circles to fool the bouncers. Or the people that reversed the TSA master key from photographs. Shape based "security" is a joke.



The point wasn't that the shape was secret, it's that the shape was trade-marked, and so very easy for Nintendo to shut down anyone using it.


It didn't work like that though.

A pirate doesn't need to copy the Nintendo logo to make the disc functional, they just need to make 2 rectangular slots on each side of the disc.

Nintendo just arranged it so it fits nicely within their logo.




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