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MAME Devs Spent 628 Years Cracking Protection on 712 Retro Games

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MAME Devs Spent 628 Years Cracking Protection on 712 Retro Games

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MAME Devs Spent 628 Years Cracking Protection on 712 Retro Games * TorrentFreak

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A new study on the MAME emulator reveals that copy protection undermines game preservation. On average, a game takes 10.6 months to crack.

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Fascinating read. I knew all about various DOS copy protection schemes but didn’t realize arcade games had them too.

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