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RoboCop – Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from DataEast

https://hoffman.home.blog/2025/12/26/robocop-breaking-the-law/

53•birdculture•4d ago

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fabiensanglard•3d ago

I can feel the passion. Great write up!

erickhill•1h ago

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•1h ago

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

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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RoboCop – Breaking the Law. H0ffman Cracks RoboCop Arcade from DataEast

https://hoffman.home.blog/2025/12/26/robocop-breaking-the-law/

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