2273 up here in BC reccived our IR board today, and it worked flawlessly. Programmed the random old remote I found burried under some stuff years ago.
All the outputs worked, and responded clearly. Range is really nice on these vishay reccivers, making me think even more that this is some kind of field element, that will be triggered by a transmitter on the bot. Also, they decided to code protect the pic in it

. There goes my fun of trying to decompile the hex and fetch some information about the game.