Forging collaborative partnerships with like-minded institutions can often yield unexpected and gratifying results. Stanford’s work with NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) on the Cabrinety Project is entering its second year, and recently one member of the NIST team discovered an important solution to a complex problem – how to extract forensically viable data from game cartridges. Christopher Fox, an intern at NIST, shares his discoveries in "How to Give Cartridge-Based Video Game Data an Extra Life," a guest post on the October 24, 2013 edition of Stanford's How They Got Game blog.