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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/
By: birdculture
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dfxm12 - 3h 20m 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.

erickhill - 3h 45m 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

fabiensanglard - 3days 18h ago
I can feel the passion. Great write up!