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Caps0ff retires
#397967 - 02/16/24 01:31 PM
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Re: Caps0ff retires
[Re: Robbbert]
#397973 - 02/16/24 07:20 PM
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Well... we are lucky for what we got while CapsOff was on board. I wish this person every success going forwards.
My financial contributions to mame over (many) years have always been to the dumping Union. I wasn't aware this project was accepting financial support. Thank you, CapsOff!
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Re: Caps0ff retires
[Re: midget35]
#397984 - 02/17/24 10:45 AM
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> Well... we are lucky for what we got while CapsOff was on board.
Yep. Bringing the ability to get data extracted in a manner that helped towards getting Taito C chip protected games to be able to run correctly. steph finally getting his chance to play Bonze Adventure all the way through the gameplay was a big deal.  Job well done with all of the successes over the several years in which many games were properly preserved.
I wish there was some way to replicate the work Morten K. had done with the protected Gaelco games from years earlier since there are Nova Desitic brand gambling games that also made use of the same hardware protection that was used with the Gaelco games.
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Re: Caps0ff retires
[Re: Robbbert]
#397997 - 02/18/24 08:15 AM
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Thank you CAPSOff for your help from 2016 to 2024.
I hope that the CAPSoff webpage is preserved as a documentation of his work in arcade preservation as it documents how to reverse engineer arcade protection devices, and the secrets of decapusulation of arcade hardware that is required to emulate protection devices in software.
I note that although many protection devices have been located, decapped and dumped, there are still many arcade boards that are needed to be found, their protection devices removed, decapped and dumped so that the games in MAME can be emulated properly and preserved forever.
Decapsulation of protection devices the only way that the code from many arcade games is ever going to be preserved correctly.
I hope that the good work continues.
https://gurudumps.otenko.com/decap/index.html
Edited by Speakeasy (02/18/24 10:32 PM)
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Re: Caps0ff retires
[Re: Speakeasy]
#397998 - 02/18/24 03:54 PM
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> I hope that the CAPSoff webpage is preserved as a documentation of his work in arcade
> preservation as it documents how to reverse engineer arcade protection devices, and
> the secrets of decapusulation of arcade hardware that is required to emulate
> protection devices in software.
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Some (most ? all ?) seems to have been archived over at archive.org 'The Internet Wayback Machine' :
https://web.archive.org/web/20240209175201/https://caps0ff.blogspot.com/
PS: If you like what the archive.org non-profit charity is doing, please consider donating.
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Re: Caps0ff retires
[Re: Robbbert]
#398001 - 02/18/24 11:23 PM
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Well all i can say is thanks for those dumps Taito C-Chip and Toaplan HD647180 especially.
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Thank you Caps0ff.
[Re: Robbbert]
#398027 - 02/23/24 06:34 PM
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