Re:Trains were designed to break down after third-party repa...
by hifromwork on Thursday December 14, 2023 @10:58AM
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The 2021-11-?? date was the day the train was scheduled to be serviced (so the intention of the code was to brick the code after the service). Only by random chance it didn't work, because the train was in maintenance a bit longer, and the code didn't trigger in January 2022 because of the date checking bug.
IIRC, there was some "konami" code to re-enable the train after disablement that was removed in a first-party update after the third-party repair company found the sequence.
And not related to the third-party locations, one of the trains had some code where if the year>2021 & month>11 & day>? then the train would disable itself; ultimately doing it in the wrong year because the train was off during november / december of that year. This is a little excessive for somebody random to do.