How Capcom's clever CPS2 Arcade Game Copy Protection stopped bootleg games | MVG

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I would love to see some arcade games rebuilt … this might help revive some …

Arcade Game bootlegging was rampant in 80s and 90s with many arcade manufacturers including Capcom in the firing line with their CPS1 arcade hardware. But Capcom learned from their mistakes and the CPS2 hardware from 1993 to 2007 - long past its end of life - became impossible to crack.

This is the story of how Capcom kept bootleggers away from the CPS2 arcade hardware for over 15 years and how different individuals eventually lead to the ultimate defeat of the encryption.

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Now we have Infinikey devices to let us remove the horrible, leak prone lithium batteries from the CPS2 boards and still have the encryption keys present. Infinikey revives games that has had the battery die and allows folks to preserve their games by removing the battery which will often leak and damage the board beyond repair.

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I have 23 of them in stock for repairs/reviving of CPS2 games. :slight_smile:

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