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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. :)

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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

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