Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
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Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a very important milestone in arcade conservation, the successful reverse engineering of Capcom's CPS2 security programming. A major development giving full hardware control of this popular platform over to the community, and helping preservation by enabling the clean desuicide and restoration of any dead games without hardware modifications.
This achievement has been made possible thanks to the help, support and collaboration of many dedicated individuals who just like you have an altruistic passion about arcade games, their hardware, history and legacy. All the discoveries and results generated by this project will be soon shared publicly, free of charge.
Over the coming days the project will see a limited release to selected testers to help ensure maturity before the public disclosure happens.
Stay tuned to further details.
The ArcadeHacker project
http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com
CPS2 project credit goes to: Artemio Urbina, Ian Court and Eduardo Cruz, with the key collaboration of Digshadow, Ougun, Brizzo, Rockman, Tayoken, and the valuable donations by Juan Felix, Alberto Fuentes, Alex Cmaylo, Bill de Leo, Alexander Schütz, François Lefebvre, Tormod Tjaberg, Felix Vazquez and Pau Oliva.
It is our pleasure to announce a very important milestone in arcade conservation, the successful reverse engineering of Capcom's CPS2 security programming. A major development giving full hardware control of this popular platform over to the community, and helping preservation by enabling the clean desuicide and restoration of any dead games without hardware modifications.
This achievement has been made possible thanks to the help, support and collaboration of many dedicated individuals who just like you have an altruistic passion about arcade games, their hardware, history and legacy. All the discoveries and results generated by this project will be soon shared publicly, free of charge.
Over the coming days the project will see a limited release to selected testers to help ensure maturity before the public disclosure happens.
Stay tuned to further details.
The ArcadeHacker project
http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com
CPS2 project credit goes to: Artemio Urbina, Ian Court and Eduardo Cruz, with the key collaboration of Digshadow, Ougun, Brizzo, Rockman, Tayoken, and the valuable donations by Juan Felix, Alberto Fuentes, Alex Cmaylo, Bill de Leo, Alexander Schütz, François Lefebvre, Tormod Tjaberg, Felix Vazquez and Pau Oliva.
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Impressive stuff. It'd be about 17-18 years since I was uploading CPS2 stuff to geoshock,
I'm guessing this now enables bit-perfect conversions?
I'm guessing this now enables bit-perfect conversions?
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Yes. Whether or not the community regards that as good bad is, of course, open to debate. In any case, dead boards can now be restored - the "correct" way - which can only be a good thing.cools wrote:I'm guessing this now enables bit-perfect conversions?
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Boards can be converted back into originals
Original labels now most valuable part of CPS2 hardware o/
Original labels now most valuable part of CPS2 hardware o/
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Enhorabuena!
Congratulations
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Excellent news and congratulation to the whole team - really stunning work!
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Fantastic news Unless this implementation makes use of the battery, surely it would make sense for all CPS2 B boards to under go this process.
Congratulations to the team, I can't begin to imagine the amount of work that has been put into this (and the CPS1 project as well).
Congratulations to the team, I can't begin to imagine the amount of work that has been put into this (and the CPS1 project as well).
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Thanks to all for your comments.
It may make further research, and hence other cool stuff, possible/easier.
Kabuki, CPS1 QSound and CPS2 down. What next?
It does involve the use of the battery. It writes the keys to a dead/blank board in the same manner that Capcom did.pulstar wrote:Fantastic news Unless this implementation makes use of the battery, surely it would make sense for all CPS2 B boards to under go this process.
It may make further research, and hence other cool stuff, possible/easier.
Kabuki, CPS1 QSound and CPS2 down. What next?
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I can see a drought of batteries from RS etc soonidc wrote:Thanks to all for your comments.
It does involve the use of the battery. It writes the keys to a dead/blank board in the same manner that Capcom did.pulstar wrote:Fantastic news Unless this implementation makes use of the battery, surely it would make sense for all CPS2 B boards to under go this process.
Whatever it is, I can't waitidc wrote:It may make further research, and hence other cool stuff, possible/easier.
Kabuki, CPS1 QSound and CPS2 down. What next?
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
That would be as easy as jtag + rewrite. It's just not documented perfectly (yet).cools wrote:CV1000
I've no idea how often you can rewrite those chips on the board. Maybe a small daughterboard would sort that.
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Try to crack the SuNA protection before they're all stone dead.idc wrote:Kabuki, CPS1 QSound and CPS2 down. What next?
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Awesome work to all those involved!
Creating CPLD replacement chips for the CPS1 a-board and c-board PPUsidc wrote:Kabuki, CPS1 QSound and CPS2 down. What next?
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Well done to all! I know there's other stuff other than Capcom but can't help feel CPSIII is coming.
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Excellent work, congrats!
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Well done guys
Best news so far this year.
Starks out...
Best news so far this year.
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))))))))))))
Great news.
Great news.
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Another milestone of reverse engineering.
Bloody brilliant work from all involved.
Bloody brilliant work from all involved.
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Re: Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement
Can't wait to read all the gritty technical details, amazing work