Saturday, 30 April 2016

Important Capcom CPS2 Announcement

Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce a very important milestone in arcade conservation, the successful reverse engineering of Capcom's CPS2 security programming. A major development giving full hardware control of this popular platform over to the community, and helping preservation by enabling the clean desuicide and restoration of any dead games without hardware modifications.
This achievement has been made possible thanks to the help, support and collaboration of many dedicated individuals who just like you have an altruistic passion about arcade games, their hardware, history and legacy. All the discoveries and results generated by this project will be soon shared publicly, free of charge.

Over the coming days the project will see a limited release to selected testers to help ensure maturity before the public disclosure happens.

Stay tuned to further details.

The ArcadeHacker project
http://arcadehacker.blogspot.com


CPS2 project credit goes to: Artemio Urbina, Ian Court and Eduardo Cruz, with the key collaboration of Digshadow, Ougun, Brizzo, Rockman, Tayoken, and the valuable donations by Juan Felix, Alberto Fuentes, Alex Cmaylo, Bill de Leo, Alexander Schütz, François Lefebvre, Tormod Tjaberg, Felix Vazquez and Pau Oliva.
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32 comments:

  1. Unknown30 April 2016 at 17:02

    Great news ^^
    Hope to test soon ;)

    Thanks for your hard work Eduardo :)

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  2. Abelardo Vidal30 April 2016 at 17:13

    Excellent news, I have several games "CPS2", I have a programmer of eproms, if I can help with anything, it would be great. Best regards...

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  3. Anonymous30 April 2016 at 18:36

    Wow, 2 months and you guys finished the job. Well done gentlemen!

    -Balthier

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    1. Eduardo Cruz1 May 2016 at 01:22

      Thanks, actually more like 1.5 years end to end

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    2. TechnicalMonkey1 May 2016 at 03:37

      Is that all....? That is simple wizardry compared to the multiple years it took to get half decent decryption. I knew you had it in you, and big thanks to all of the donators and researchers that help in this endeavor. CPS 3 will probably be a cake walk for you.

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  4. Anonymous30 April 2016 at 22:05

    That's great news, Eduardo.

    Out of curiosity, do you also happen to have any plans to do anything like this for all of those soundless Toaplan games, as well?

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    1. Eduardo Cruz1 May 2016 at 01:23

      Not sure, know very little about them, whats going on? Regards

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    2. Anonymous2 May 2016 at 06:48

      The sound CPU chips have internal data that can't be dumped through normal means, which is necessary for Vimana, Ghox and Fire Shark/Same!Same!Same! to have playable music. Might be worth contacting tormod for detailed info.

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    3. Eduardo Cruz2 May 2016 at 11:18

      Thanks for the detail. I guess we need to gain visibility as to what's out there currently not emulable or desuicidable and define a prioritized roadmap.

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    4. Anonymous8 May 2016 at 01:02

      Eduardo, if you can, also take a look at the Nichibutsu arcade game "Tatakae! Big Fighter," which currently has an unemulated security chip that prevents the game from running in Mame.

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  5. Anonymous30 April 2016 at 22:33

    great news! :)

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  6. Luiz cybertron1 May 2016 at 03:35

    Nice! I have some cps2 boards, burned, do you stiil need these boards?

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  7. Luiz cybertron1 May 2016 at 03:36

    Nice! I have some cps2 boards, burned, do you stiil need these boards?
    Contact me inbox..

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  8. davesclassics australia1 May 2016 at 14:29

    Congratulations on the CPS2 breakthrough, Eduardo!

    Guess I should have checked back more often!

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  9. Adam2 May 2016 at 19:56

    If you need a tester, I have a pile of boards currently running decrypted roms, new batteries, eprom burner, multiple Arduinos, etc

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  10. Anonymous7 May 2016 at 02:04

    Excellent work. THanks so much for your time and dedication to the community!!

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  11. Jesuszilla11 May 2016 at 02:52

    Awesome news! Just curious, but what hardware will I need in order to program the chips once this is released?

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    1. Eduardo Cruz11 May 2016 at 04:56

      Arduino Uno + lcd keypad shield

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    2. Jesuszilla12 May 2016 at 06:21

      That's all? Really? No other hardware necessary like an EPROM programmer?

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    3. Eduardo Cruz12 May 2016 at 08:12

      Correct, hardware stays unmodified.

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    4. Unknown2 June 2016 at 14:39

      Hey Ed! Thanks so much for your hard work! We all appreciate it so much! I have a question. Will this revival process work with the "all in one" black boards?

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    5. Eduardo Cruz10 September 2016 at 19:17

      Should work

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  12. Anonymous11 May 2016 at 23:40

    Es una gran noticia, estaré al pendiente y saludos desde méxico.

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  13. Anonymous18 May 2016 at 07:15

    Please make the fix available ASAP! :D

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  14. Joel19 May 2016 at 04:27

    Please I really would like to revive my boards

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  15. Unknown1 July 2016 at 03:18

    Hi ^^
    Any new of the project ?
    Need other beta tester ?
    ciao :)

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  16. Adam26 July 2016 at 04:21

    Soooo... Any update?

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    1. Eduardo Cruz7 August 2016 at 18:22

      Hi Adam, further testing is ongoing before public disclosure. It won't be much longer.

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    2. Anonymous29 August 2016 at 05:44

      Muchas gracias por hacer esto posible, especialmente un gran logro para la comunidad arcade y lo más destacado es que todo es por la pasión al arcade y sin fines de lucro,felicitaciones para ti y todos los involucrados en este proceso. Espero que ya pronto este disponible. Saludos desde México.

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  17. Donnie Tsunami9 November 2016 at 17:05

    Any news? Just got a stack of cps2 boards and a few of them are dead. Would love to have a way to bring them to life!!

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    1. Eduardo Cruz9 November 2016 at 17:20

      Hi Donnie, you may want to look at the latest blog post, everything was release a few weeks ago. Regards.

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  18. Anonymous1 January 2017 at 02:03

    Hello.
    Thank you for providing the program.
    I am using Japanese black one board hyper Street Fighter II.You can now display rom check in your program.
    However, it freezes before checking the Q sound.
    ? Is there a difference between sf2j1dl_031222JAPAN and hsf2jdl_040202JAPAN?

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