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Haze
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Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs
03/17/19 12:06 PM


> What if that the only board left. That mean it won't get fully dump ever. Even the
> rare board. Companies doesn't keep back up on their ROM's files. RIP. You are right
> about the risk of dumping. Some day there will be a better way to dump without
> damaging the chips.

That's a very naive way of thinking.

In many cases there won't be a better way, these chips / modules are designed to keep the data secure and if designed properly will do exactly that meaning without this level of hacking there is literally no way to get the data.

In some cases, yes, things might be lost forever because there is only one copy. Some things have already been lost forever for sure (look at the NeoGeo development boards which used SRAM to keep most of the ROM data alive) Everything will eventually fail regardless of if somebody is there to try and dump them or not. We can't preserve everything.







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* cadillacs and dinosaurs zouhir 03/11/19 10:55 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs RobbbertModerator  03/16/19 02:36 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs Haze  03/16/19 02:45 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs ClawGrip  03/17/19 12:53 AM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs Haze  03/17/19 01:29 AM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs Dullaron  03/17/19 09:57 AM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs Haze  03/17/19 12:06 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs ClawGrip  03/16/19 08:52 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs Haze  03/16/19 09:13 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs ClawGrip  03/16/19 09:29 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs Sune  03/12/19 02:19 AM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs AJR Hacker  03/16/19 02:19 PM
. * Re: cadillacs and dinosaurs ICEknight  03/12/19 12:04 AM

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