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Charles MacDonald
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Re: DU December Update III
12/29/13 08:03 AM


Time Scanner is one of those games where we found the decryption key by brute force (which thanks to Aaron is very easy to do now), but we had to guess the contents of the "is data encrypted here" table. Since the memory maps of all these boards are well known, the guessed data is very likely correct. But in the end there's still room for error, and ultimately a known good dump is needed.

All the games marked as having partial keys ([2]) in the following file will need redumping in time, assuming we can find working FD1089s. Though I think this list isn't up to date with some of our recently dumped keys:

http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/machine/fd1089.c.html

I haven't tried Time Scanner in MAME recently so I don't know if the new key will fix anything, but at least having a complete key will mean we know any outstanding gameplay issues aren't encryption related.

Getting Netmerc was pretty incredible, can't wait to see how it turns out!







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Subject Posted by Posted on
* DU December Update III SmitdoggAdministrator 12/28/13 01:38 AM
. * Re: DU December Update III LucaRH  12/31/13 11:00 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III SmitdoggAdministrator  12/31/13 11:10 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III LucaRH  12/31/13 11:17 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III SmitdoggAdministrator  12/31/13 11:41 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III gregf  12/28/13 11:16 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III Charles MacDonald  12/29/13 08:03 AM
. * Re: DU December Update III drewcifer  12/29/13 06:28 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III URherenow  12/31/13 01:58 AM
. * Re: DU December Update III R. Belmont  01/01/14 06:29 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III Andy Reece  03/29/14 11:56 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III Anonymous  03/30/14 07:05 AM
. * Re: DU December Update III Anonymous  12/31/13 01:00 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III Anonymous  12/30/13 03:09 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III drewcifer  12/30/13 11:21 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III Anonymous  12/31/13 12:47 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III Sune  12/29/13 07:15 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III -Mitaine-  12/28/13 03:25 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III SmitdoggAdministrator  12/28/13 06:06 PM
. * Re: DU December Update III fortuna_chan  12/28/13 01:52 AM

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