disassemblies・digital archaeology・data preservation
The CPS 2 has a storied history in the emulation scene and hardly needs an introduction. You may think there is nothing left to discover with this hardware, but there are remaining secrets indeed. 24 of them, in fact, in the form of little blue switches…
Just a quickie article so this isn’t lost to the sands of Twitter.
Still alive, just been busy with life and other hobbies in the meantime. Data hacking has been on my mind though, and it’s about time to get back to that. For now, I still have a handful of things in my queue to post about, including Shadow Over Mystara for the CPS-2 system!
Oh man, I am EXCITED! Pocket Fighter was one of the first games I tried picking at when I started hacking old arcade games around the end of last year. I could clearly see from the raw dump alone that there was something hidden away here (it doesn’t get more blatant than a string reading “SECRET TEST”). I tweeted when I found the the entry routine early on, but I could never quite coax the game into loading it properly. Until now…*suspenseful music*