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DU: Capcom laziness at the end of World Warrior's life cycle
#364632 - 03/25/17 08:45 PM Attachment: bonkypcb.jpg 281 KB (1 downloads)
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Bonky dumped a version of Street Fighter II World Warrior that has rom labels identical to the final 920312 but it boots as 911210. Shoutime got a World Warrior that also boots as 911210 and with similar L letter revisions on the program roms but with a couple of slight differences. So it appears that near the end of the life cycle of World Warrior, Capcom started caring less and less about updating the boot screen date and giving sets their own rom label revisions. Either way there are new sets coming soon to mame.
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Re: DU: Capcom laziness at the end of World Warrior's life cycle
[Re: Smitdogg]
#364685 - 03/28/17 02:28 PM
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> Bonky dumped a version of Street Fighter II World Warrior that has rom labels
> identical to the final 920312 but it boots as 911210. Shoutime got a World Warrior
> that also boots as 911210 and with similar L letter revisions on the program roms but
> with a couple of slight differences. So it appears that near the end of the life
> cycle of World Warrior, Capcom started caring less and less about updating the boot
> screen date and giving sets their own rom label revisions. Either way there are new
> sets coming soon to mame.
There's also a fair chance that some of the sets (maybe the 'newest' one) are actually hacks, with somebody hacking them up in order to sell them to ops with a fake date using original labels, or even to get somebody interested in emulation to pay over the odds for them.
It happened a lot with Fruit Machines (But for other reasons, convince an operator that a version you're offering to install is a legitimate new version when actually it contains a payout backdoor) I guess for CPS1 it might happen if somebody wanted to hack them to use a different sub-board but still make them look official. The variations in sub-boards needed by some games (including SF2) is a bit weird already. Bugfixes were meant to be easy romswaps, not 'replace entire sub-board as well' because that's not cost effective and would actually increase piracy not decrease it as additional spare sub-boards would end up on the market that could be used for other bootlegs/conversions.
The code probably needs looking at carefully.
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Re: DU: Capcom laziness at the end of World Warrior's life cycle
[Re: Haze]
#364687 - 03/28/17 03:12 PM
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You tend to assume the worst but, if someone was going to hack one to change the date to fool emu people they would only change the date line so that would be a 1 rom change and obvious when they're dumped, and it doesn't make any sense to me how someone would get legit rom stickers if there was hacking going on back in the day to swab B boards unless the games were just breaking left and right.
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