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Arcade Hacker
Personal blog · arcadehacker.blogspot.comgameshardwaresystems
Arcade Hacker is a personal blog at arcadehacker.blogspot.com about games, hardware and systems. Since 2017, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for detailed write-ups of arcade board hardware and security, such as Capcom CPS-1 and Sega System 16 encryption and key extraction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Preservation and Reverse Engineering of Arcade Video Games
What Hacker News says?
The stories of how the keys were extracted and machines were de-suicided is pretty impressive. Spend an evening with http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/?m=1 and marvel!
Comment linking /?m=1
on “Capcom CPS-1 Graphic system study”Submitted Revealing Capcom’s Custom Silicon Security as a story · 99 points
HN discussionSega wasn't the only one to use a CPU with embedded crypto, as this set of detailed articles from the same site shows: http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2014/11/capcom-kabuki-cpu-i...
Comment linking /2014/11/capcom-kabuki-cpu-intro.html
on “Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2”Submitted Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2 as a story · 76 points
HN discussionPart one: https://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2019/10/deconstructing-seg...
Comment linking /2019/10/deconstructing-sega-system16-security-part1.html
on “Deconstructing Sega's System 16 Security – Part 2”Submitted Arcade Hacker: Capcom CPS1 – Part 1 (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe part 2: http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com/2015/05/capcom-cps1-part-2....
Comment linking /2015/05/capcom-cps1-part-2.html
on “Arcade Hacker: Capcom CPS1 – Part 1 (2015)”
