flowrent Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 Protections?They took protections for an arcade game?Why?They were expecting it do be dumped and emulated?Do the guys from MAME or Zinc have the mainboards of the games they are working on...or how do they get their data about how to emulate the games ?
Agozer Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 Protections?They took protections for an arcade game?Why?They were expecting it do be dumped and emulated?Do the guys from MAME or Zinc have the mainboards of the games they are working on...or how do they get their data about how to emulate the games ?Yes and yes. Also, Guru is the one that gets all the boards and eventually dumps them (gets boards from collectors, buys the boards himself etc). Since the ZiNc people (DynaChicken, smf, R. Belmont) also work with MAME, and have done so for a long time, they have some hardcore knowledge of arcade hardware. As for how they get their data... Guru's dumps, analysing, debugging, reverse engineering, leaked technical documents, you name it.
Robert Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 Quite a few arcade games are protected in an attempt to stop the bootleggers making copied arcade games. And more lately to try to stop it getting emulated.
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