[HN Gopher] RoboCop - Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop A...
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       RoboCop - Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from
       DataEast
        
       Author : birdculture
       Score  : 78 points
       Date   : 2025-12-27 12:21 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (hoffman.home.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (hoffman.home.blog)
        
       | fabiensanglard wrote:
       | I can feel the passion. Great write up!
        
       | erickhill wrote:
       | If you're not familiar, Hoffman is also a supremely talented
       | musician as well (often inspired by and/or made on an Amiga).
       | 
       | His track "Eon" here is from a very famous and artistically
       | beautiful demo. https://hoffman.bandcamp.com/album/the-cave-
       | sessions
        
       | dfxm12 wrote:
       | _It seems like the game is "off loading" the enemy bullet to
       | player collision detection to the HuC6280. This would have
       | presented a very complicated challenge to would-be bootleggers
       | back in the day_
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       | Having an invincible RoboCop would be a devious punishment for
       | arcade operators bootlegging the game. One quarter would eat up
       | _a lot_ of time on the machine. It would be hard to make any
       | money on it.
        
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