This could be the most important day in emulation history.
27th February, 2008
Today could be the most important day in emulation history.
First things first. In the general news, we have some more arrivals....
From 'lisac' via RB, we have Sega's Death Crimson OX (NAOMI-based) and Namco's Gunmen Wars (Super System 23)
A couple of previously-undumpable Gameboy Color carts, thanks to BigFred
The previously missing Epoch Game Computer Astro Bomber cart, thanks to Ranger Lennier
Last but not least Cave's Ibara, purchased by me about a year ago that RB was playing and hoarding holding for me until such time that I was ready for it
Now the big news.... I've struck a deal with a company that does IC security work to process most, if not all of the micro-controllers that I'm currently holding. This includes the following chips and possibly more that may come my way in the near future....
* BSMT2000
* All remaining Namco custom MCUs (i.e. 59xx, 62xx etc)
* NMK004
* Sega Model 1 TGPs
* Namco customs C70, C75 & C76
* Sound MCUs from Vimana and Teki Paki
* QSound chips from Capcom ZN1 and CPS1/2)
* Kaneko Beast (DJ Boy, B Rap Boys)
* Kaneko Mermaid (Heavy Unit)
* C-Chip from Bonze Adventure
* Sound MCUs from Fix Eight and Knuckle Bash
* MCU's from Victorious Nine, Xain'd Sleena/Solar Warrior, Alcon, Prebillian, Tokio and possibly others that I can find
* MCU's from Joshi Volleyball, Meikyuu Hunter G, Super Qix, Gladiators, Tatakae! Big Fighter and possibly others
* Every PIC16C621A that I have here (maybe 20, used by GDROM-based games)
* Sound MCU from Dynamic Shoot & Moero Proyakyuu Home Run
* MCU from Kyuukyoku Tiger
* MCUs from NBA Jam Extreme and Primal Rage II
* MCU from NAOMI/Hikaru/HNG64 JVS I/O board
* and probably two or three other chips from a few Mamedevs
There will also be the possiblity of a few others including Gaelco's suicidal DS5002 from World Rally at a later date in a separate analysis project.
This is a special Guru-deal with some conditions.
To get this work done by a professional company would cost about $80k-$100k. This includes decapping and micro-photographing of maskROM and decapping plus UV-zapping of protection bits and readout of internal EPROM. We can wait for an unknown period of time for one or two other people to try their attempts at about 10% of these with no guarantee of success. Make no mistake, most of these are beyond even the above average set-up. We're talking BIG dollars to process most of these chips.
Or we accept the special Guru-deal and get it all for $7500. That's an amazing price when you consider to process one PIC16C621A costs $1200 per chip!
On top of that, this company is also MAME-friendly and supports our cause.... one of the reasons why we're getting such a cheap price. Oh and they were influenced by my Guru-Charm, of course :-D
They are also able to extract the ROM directly from the IC substrate so in some cases high-magnification of the die and tedious bit-analysis may not even be required..... they can suck the bits right off the chip directly!
Of course, there's a problem. There's always a problem! I can cover $2500 of that, but to move forward I need to come up with the rest of the bucks. I'm hoping for assistance from out there in internet-land. As I said, this could be the most important day in emulation history providing the funds can be achieved. If you can help, simply click the Paypal Donation button to the right. Thanks!
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