JohnRambo'sKnife
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I can't emphasize this enough - Thank you 6t8k!and Thanks for taking the initiative 6t8k!!
I can't emphasize this enough - Thank you 6t8k!and Thanks for taking the initiative 6t8k!!
Yeah, that's my thoughts on it as well. Oh well, maybe down the road it will get cheaper to do this process!We have to find 100 of me and you and maybe him out there. As much as I want this, I think there are other areas where the money might be better spent with respect to preservation.
With that said, in for a go fund me. Never set one up, but happy to take the lead.
The advantage on the other hand is that, once you have the images, you don't need bulky and/or expensive specialized equipment for the rest of the work. You can do it on personal computers and parallelize the work across many individual contributors working together.This is my first time reading this thread, and my first response was going to be "decapping and imaging is the easy and cheap part", because delayering and tracing into netlist is extremely time intensive and therefore expensive.... but you got that answer!
I'm pretty sure they are only manufacturing numbers, meaning fabrication year-week.By the way, there are different four-digit numbers on the fourth and last line of the GP9001's imprint. Not aware of any difference those would make; they're likely just batch numbers, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt to decap at least two different ones while we're at it, no? But that decision would also somewhat depend on the additional cost involved, I suppose.
So far I've seen these (most certainly very incomplete):
# game(s) 9044 Tatsujin Oh 9150 V-V, Fixeight, Mahou Daisakusen, Tatsujin Oh 9152 Dogyuun, Fixeight 9232 Dogyuun 9235 Knuckle Bash 9335 Batsugun
Curious about this. What is the biggest FPGA or CPLD in terms of logic-units, that works in 5V-levels?you will be not able to fit all the logics in a single chip
The big benefit at the moment would be the ability to use these boards with anything but an arcade/broadcast monitor. Currently, there is no workable option.