The player had to physically pick up the cardboard wheel, find the matching outer character or symbol, and manually rotate the inner layer(s) of the wheel to align it with the secondary variable requested by the game.
The encoded message becomes "JRTTG".
Code wheels were part of a larger trend in early 1990s PC gaming. Unlike a simple printed list of codes in a GameFAQs manual , the wheel's interactive nature was designed to be harder to reproduce using the era’s basic black-and-white photocopiers. knights of xentar code wheel
In the early 1990s, the PC gaming industry faced a massive challenge: software piracy. Long before digital rights management (DRM) and online activation, game developers had to get creative to protect their intellectual property. One of the most iconic, nostalgic, and occasionally frustrating solutions born from this era was the physical copy protection wheel, often called a "code wheel." The player had to physically pick up the