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Mike Moffitt

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Mike Moffitt writes Mike "MOF" Moffitt's Website, a personal blog at mikejmoffitt.com about hardware and games. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Show HN: Cracking the copy protection on a Sega Puyo Puyo 2 arcade game”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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8mentions?
6HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mike Moffitt's articles on getting around the anti-piracy checks in the Puyo Puyo Tsuu arcade game so it can run on similar hardware. One commenter cites them as a source for their own point about copy-protection.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Show HN: Cracking the copy protection on a Sega Puyo Puyo 2 arcade game
    3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-07-12

What Hacker News says?

  1. mikejmoffitt · 2017-02-02
    This is one effect I discovered when I was working on getting around the anti-piracy effects of an arcade game[1][2] in order to run it on similar hardware. I think it is a more clever copy defeat mechanism than stopping the game from booting. [1] http://mikejmoffitt.com/articles/0047-puyopuy2.html [2] https://tcrf.net/Puyo_Puyo_Tsuu_(Arcade)

    Comment linking /articles/0047-puyopuy2.html

    on “Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures”
  2. sizzle · 2014-05-21

    Submitted NeoVGA: Neo Geo Line Doubler in VHDL as a story · 124 points

    HN discussion
  3. mikejmoffitt · 2016-07-12

    Submitted Show HN: Cracking the copy protection on a Sega Puyo Puyo 2 arcade game as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. tosh · 2019-12-26

    Submitted Puyo Puyo Tsu: Cracking the Copy Protection (Sega System C2) (2016) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. danbolt · 2019-10-28

    Submitted Puyo Puyo Tsu: Cracking the Copy Protection as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. cheerioty · 2024-05-10

    Submitted Porting Lyle in Cube Sector to Sega Genesis / Mega Drive as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. mikejmoffitt · 2017-08-24

    Submitted Show HN: Adding Free Play to an Arcade Game as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. rocky1138 · 2013-04-04

    Submitted Oculus Rift USB Power Hack as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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