> > > I thought the Ca$H0000La scam had long been accepted as gospel...
> >
> > At the time the demand was for a way to make CPS2 games playable, and insofar
> as
> > that happened CPS2Shock fulfilled its stated goal.
>
> They were made playable only after CPS2SHOCK changed their publically-stated
> goal, and that happened AFTER people had donated enough money for Raz to afford
> an EPROM-emulator device, under the fraudulent belief based on CPS2SHOCK's
> *original* stated goals.
>
> I do have a (small) inside viewpoint here, seeing as how I was officially part
> of CPS2SHOCK for what, a week or so? I shared everything that I personally had
> up until that point, which was enough to convince them to let me join, but then
> things all went bad after Raz had his sudden about-face, from cracking CPS2, to
> instead, making them playable, which of course required "send paypal" for every
> boardset and revision. Totally unnecessary if the algo had been properly
> understood and cracked. But that wouldn't have PAID like the alternative did, of
> course.

This does all sound pretty bad, and I feel pretty damn naive throughout this :-P Ah well, I genuinely did used to think it would get decrypted properly one day. Naive naive naive.

One thing I don't get is, does Raz now have a tonne of CPS2 boards still? Was that comedy picture of someone wading in a sea of arcade boards real? Or are they e-bayed for cash.

How much roughly does Raz have now? $100s, $1000s, $10,000s? Or does he just have a load of boards?
To me personally that seems a bit pointless, but then again I don't have a big attic to keep anything in... I know much bigger arcade collectors at work, but it's never really appealled to me ;)
Maybe one day I'll get a JAMMA cabinet or something!


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