Using a PICKit 3 clone to program a PIC12F629 chip

While putting together some custom SNES PCBs from Nick at MouseBiteLabs, the carts required a PIC12F629 chip to bypass Nintendo s copy protection using the community-built SuperCIC key code. Maybe I should have ordered pre-programmed chips from the seller, but instead I decided to make things more difficult interesting and get a PICKit programmer clone from [ ] The post Using a PICKit 3 clone to…