/tags/suicidebattery/ Recent bookmarks tagged #suicidebattery Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:59 +0000 http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html "Several arcade game manufacturers decided it would be a good idea to put a battery on their game boards that, when they die (and they will die), disable the game. Why they did this isn't exactly clear. Usually the way suicide batteries work is, the batteries supply power to a bit of RAM that holds a decryption table. This table is the key to decrypting the encrypted program stored in the board's ROMs. When the battery dies, this table goes away and the program code can no longer be decrypted. The CPU no longer has valid code to execute. The board stops working."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #arcade #capcom #electronics #odd #sega #suicidebattery</p> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:51:48 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12595 arcade capcom electronics odd sega suicidebattery