[HN Gopher] RoboCop - Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop A...
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RoboCop - Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from
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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).
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| 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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