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[HN] Study: 87% of classic video games are not legally available (gamehistory.org)
submitted 1 year ago by aion to c/retrogaming
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

BIOS is a set of baked-in software routines that mediate certain operations between software and hardware. In theory it could be reverse-enginereed and thus emulated just like the rest of the hardware

On older systems yeah, but on newer systems that rely on cryptographic keys and DRM - and circumventing DRM can still be a crime - it's not so cut and dry. You can't "emulate" away the encryption