--- title: "Reverse Engineering A Rock Bottom NES Clone" url: https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-engineering-a-rock-bottom-nes-clone-6ftp7kxzn source_url: https://hackaday.com/2026/06/01/reverse-engineering-a-rock-bottom-nes-clone type: article source: "Hackaday" published: 2026-06-01T11:08:25.907Z updated: 2026-06-01T11:08:43.926Z tags: ["embedded", "reverse-engineering"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reverse Engineering A Rock Bottom NES Clone **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A deep-dive reverse engineering project on a cheap NES-on-a-chip device built into a phone case. The process involves disassembling the hardware, identifying a mystery resin blob chip as a VT369 NES-on-a-chip, dumping the external ROM, and using code injection to control the backlight as a signaling mechanism to extract the chip's internal 4K ROM by flashing it on and off. The project highlights the versatility of these NES-on-a-chip ICs beyond gaming. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Making A Retro\(ish\) Game Console From Scratch](https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-retro-ish-game-console-from-scratch-ltbc64ddx) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Reverse-Engineering And Documenting The Fisher Price Pixter](https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-engineering-and-documenting-the-fisher-price-pixter-yccxhnmbo) · Hackaday · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Inside Raiders Of The Lost Ark \(Atari Style\)](https://daily.dev/posts/inside-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-atari-style--jnlwdohgc) · Hackaday · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy part. 1](https://daily.dev/posts/i-turned-the-lego-game-boy-into-a-working-game-boy-part-1-7ndqtwqzz) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#embedded](https://daily.dev/tags/embedded), [#reverse-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/reverse-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/reverse-engineering-a-rock-bottom-nes-clone-6ftp7kxzn)