Some of the tasks are remarkably difficult, the network CPU is a truly insane Z80 based chip, with many opcodes only taking a single cycle, and a complex MMU system slapped on for good measure, to make things worse, the only documentation is in Japanese. The I/O MCU problem we can’t do anything about, we have no way to dump them, so it’s going to reqiure painstaking simulation code. Understanding a lot of the video registers is also going to take time, and maybe even hardware tests, because so many features are barely used.
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2015/04/01/making-your-ears-bleed/
AKA: one might think you could guess the inner workings of one's mind who programmed such hardware......
Or was it just that hardware was so fucking cheap in Japan, they used whatever was they wanted? Or was it that they used whatever was available? Or, was it just that the programmers didn't really know their stuff?
I mean, it seems only the non-American stuff has this kind of thing happen.
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