> > > Whats annoying is that the same techniques that are getting results on
> system
> > 16
> > > could do the same for cps2, while charles mcdonald has shared everything we
> > > haven't had the same cooperation from razoola. Everyone that donated money
> or
> > > boards has only benefited with getting the games playable, the real work of
> > > finding out how the hardware works will require the same effort of getting
> > every
> > > single board back again.
> > >
> > > smf
> > >
> >
> > In fact I have shared all the data I had. At that time people seemed happy
> with
> > that until they realised it got them no closer to understanding the algo.
> > Everything I know about the encryption has been shared and is also documented
> in
> > the MAME source, I cant share information that is unknown to me.
> >
>
> consider that charles shared many gigabytes of data, most of the early table
> dumps he provided were 1gb+ in size, you supplied a couple of meg of data,
> having more data, from more than one game, obviously helps.

Would it be possible to do the same thing for CPS2 Raz? Dump a large table of each possible input to a certain memory location and list the outputs. Nicola might be on a roll and could figure out CPS2 as well....

I have to admit that originally I supported XORs since I thought that having an 'in' to the system would help finding the algorithm... but several years on and there is still no algorithm, I have to doubt whether xors were ever a good idea :(
Will the system truly be preserved in a non-hacky way till an algorithm is found?


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