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That is impressive, any chance you’ve documented your journey and collection anywhere? I’d love to learn more.

I believe it was also done for higan (bsnes) in order to support enhancement chipped games: the enhancement chips had to be collected, decapped, and decoded in order to correctly (= fully accurately, rather than approximately via hacks to try and fit observations) run the game dumps. I think at least part of the process was documented at the time.

I don't know if all the enhancement chips were collected and decoded, as IIRC a pair of them are literally used for a single japanese-only game.

Although for IP reasons the enhancement chip firmwares can't be distributed with higan, so you have to "dump them yourself".

bsnes' creator collected all the NTSC cartridges, I believe (USA and Japan, even the rare ones that were Japan-only special editions) but I don't think they managed to get a full PAL set.

All the enhancement chips used in officially licensed games were collected, decapped, and dumped via an electron microscope. Yes, even the ones only used by a single Shougi game each. :)

bsnes' creator...

I still can't get over the tragedy of what happened to them. That shouldn't have happened under any circumstance.

If it makes you feel better, Byuu faked his death at least once before and there's still no hard evidence he's dead.

> Wayne Beckett, founder of Hong-Kong-based Datapower Development, said Near, whose full name was David Kirk Ginder, was an employee and confirmed Ginder's death to USA TODAY.

from https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/07/23/how-toxic-onli...

That's hard enough for me to think it's legit, though I'd agree that it's not conclusive.

there are so many holes in even THAT story it's not even funny.

I'd love to learn more if you had a reference

I sincerely hope there's hope for it. Even so, such behavior towards an individual who brought nothing but joy to a common shared passion of many is beyond sad and evil.

Byuu tried to extort the owner of kiwifarms and "killed" himself when the owner refused. I encourage you to read Byuu's thread yourself instead of news articles that drastically misrepresent what happened.

Hmm, not to pollute thread anymore, I'll see what I can find and read. I remember marcan of Asahi confirmed it as well?

Some more evidence seems to have come forward, via a FOIA request by Null: https://twitter.com/TheRalphRetort/status/177609783413719452...

One of those shogi chips was actually a 32 bit ARM processor:

https://snescentral.com/chips.php?chiptype=ST018

not documentation you'd like.. I can only had a sheet, at first excel and then google sheets, which I made to make it easy for me to track it all. I did travel a lot due to business etc and over time it all fell into place. Here's what they look like stored now, waiting for a move soon and for a more permanent setting: https://twitter.com/Keyframe/status/1550975562742644736?t=0N...

I'm also close to finishing N64 and maybe halfway there for NES (which I have no illusions on completing ever).

That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing it, good luck on completing the other collections.

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