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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
Top comments
This is amazing. The video avoids too technical language, and basically explains the whole process of reverse engineering. I think this is the best explanation of reverse engineering I've seen in a long time.
As complementary info, the copy protection of the Sega Saturn was cracked already in the second half of the 90s. I had a "modchip" in my Saturn already in the late 90s, and more or less every game title was readily available as a PAL/NTSC region-unlocked ISO dump to be burnt on a blank CD-R. The effort in this video is about deconstructing the CD drive's protocol and link-layer, to allow for disc emulation with flash memory storage.
Someone has already made a cdrom drive replacement SD card board but this guy maybe be the first to have thoroughly figured out the workings of the cdrom controller.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1280
- Total comments
- 263
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-11 | Sega Saturn CD – Cracked after 20 years | petetnt | 14 | 1 |
| 2016-07-11 | Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 YearsFirst breakout · Best thread | flurpitude | 1126 | 223 |
| 2020-09-02 | Sega Saturn CD – Cracked after 20 years(2016) | vinnyglennon | 7 | 0 |
| 2022-06-14 | Sega Saturn CD – Cracked after 20 years (2016) [video]Latest 20+ point return | swills | 133 | 39 |