I'm glad to announce the successful reverse engineering of Sega's System 16 cpu security modules. This development will enable collectors worldwide preserving hardware unmodified, and stop the general discarding of Hitachi FD modules.
The project is right now involving external testers so expect further details and full disclosure over the coming weeks.
Eduardo.
Project credits: Eduardo Cruz, Rockman (Pere Vicién), Digshadow, with support from Shinichiro Baba, Ricardo Fernandez-Vega, Andrew Welburn and other kind donators.
Maaaaaaaaaarvelous!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for doing this.
ReplyDeleteAre you able to also look at the NEC8123B (z80) module? My guess is that it can be re-keyed as well through a set of repurposed pins when pleaced in a special mode.
Hello Eduardo,
ReplyDeleteYou are a true genius among us, the peasants...
I want to thank you for your hard work, Thankyou !
You just finished the CPS2 project, and you have started another one ? Amazing !
I am thinking how many hours have you spend researching/reverse engineering, only for the arcade community, and general knowledge, Amazing again !
Good luck and God guard you, Dragos.
Great work! I'm really interested in this, I'd been planning to hunt for a way to program these things for years. Can't wait to read the technical details. I noticed you have an adaptor board hooked up to what seems to be an arduino. Are you planning to release the schematics cor the bridge board and code for the programmer? Also, I'm expecting this to be a no, but by any chance did you come across a way to read the memory contents externally?
ReplyDeleteI have moonwalker and shinobi at my disposal. Other sega 16 can acquire
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful news !
ReplyDeleteI'm still amazed by your hacking skill !
Hope to see the next post soon ;-)
wow, is it possible to have the original game without phoenixade mode? I am not practical with the welder can you arrange the thing?
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank you for all the information on reverse engineeringof Arcade Video Games you give. Its really important to choose the best.So thanks for the information you give.
ReplyDeleteLooks really promising !
ReplyDeleteAny news of this project ?
User testing in progress, release before year's end.
ReplyDeleteIf you want some beta tester, just let me know, I have a dead cotton FD1094.
DeleteThanks, Eduardo!
ReplyDeleteDo you still plan to do the same with the encrypted Z80 modules the NEC 8123B's ?? Is there some sort of secret doorknock or pin reporpuposing going on here? Would love to be able to bring back my original modules back to life. :)
These are on the list and should follow at some point.
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