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I wonder if these tricks to defeat emulators have the opposite effects. They give truly interesting chalenges that can motivate talentuous developpers.
by webreac 10y ago
I wonder if these tricks to defeat emulators have the opposite effects. They give truly interesting chalenges that can motivate talentuous developpers.
- brokenmachine 10y ago> talentuous I like the word, but I think you mean "talented". :)
- derefr 10y agoYep. See, for example, 4am's cracks of the Apple II software collection (https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am), done half for the sake of preserving old games, but also half for the sake of discovering (and documenting!) the many kinds of anti-piracy measures that went into them.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoYeah, ironically, they could lead to the emulator developers more accurately emulating the original hardware. Then other games may actually emulate better! It's not be practical to actually make one, but theoretically, there's nothing you could do to stop your game being on a 100% accurate emulator. And some good emulators are amazingly close.