It’s time to take down the future of law enforcement. Following on from my discovery that RoboCop arcade has bootleg protection, see here , I decided it would be fun to crack it. TL;DR –…

RoboCop uses a separate HuC6280 CPU as it’s copy protection. The CPU is a variant of the very common 6502 and could be found in the PC Engine console. I’m assuming this was chosen because it wasn’t something you could get off the shelf, like a 68000 or a 6502, so would make replica PCBs a lot more difficult.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialMEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I love/hate these one-off tryhard copy protection schemes. This was a fun read, thanks for the link OP.