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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant (dmitrybrant.com)
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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Pretty fascinating! I would’ve expected the dongle to be doing something more complex but, as the author says, it’s possible that these developers underused it.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    Many did. One common thing is to store some important data on a dongle.
    I remember a game called DJ Max Trilogy that stores your entire save data on it, so even if you bypass the dongle check to get the game to boot, you'd have to rewrite the entire save/load system too.

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