Eli5: how exactly did game developers put their game on a N64 cartridge? And how did the pins on the cartridges allow you to play the game once inserted into the game system?

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Also, how did they mass produce said cartridges with said game on them?

Bonus question: same question with cd’s

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Answer 1

For developers, they had special cartridges that could connect to a computer directly via a cable. You would write your code on another computer and test it on the real console.

Or some dev carts had a programmable chip on them (kind of like a USB thumb drive), you could put any game code on there.

The pins are like the pins on USB devices, it gave the console a way to access the data on the cartridge.