The game booted.
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He scrolled down to the only reply in the thread, dated two weeks after the original post. It was a broken link, a tangle of corrupted characters, and a note: “The lock-on technology wasn’t just for the game. It was for the save state. Do not run this on an emulator. It overwrites the BIOS shadow.” The game booted