> I know hacked xors are easy enough to make; there were plenty of them with
> region hacks when cps2 was first emulated. But you're missing the point, it
> appears that the hacked xors are being used to run revisions that haven't been
> decrypted yet (using encrypted program roms that have yet to be decrypted by
> Raz). As Malice pointed out, this may not mean they have any real understanding
> of the encryption itself....but it might mean that different revisions of the
> same game have the same or similar encryption key.

That was pretty-much already known, years ago. Big whoop. :|