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Osso1
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Typing Monkeys unite! (DONE, thanks everybody!)
02/13/22 08:40 AM


Some months have passed since the last time a collective effort was needed, but now we need help to type the data of the internal ROM of a Pacman handheld which was recently trojaned out.
Here are the instructions:


Quote:


There is an increasing decimal counter on the left (the address)
To the right of this there is another value (the data) again decimal

for EVEN addresses the data will be displayed near the center of the display
for ODD addresses the data will be displayed closer to the right of the display
(this is done to avoid 'half and half values' appearing mid-update)

valid address/data combinations will persist for several frames, so valid frames should
be obvious and transitional frames can be ignored.

the address counter updates slightly before the data updates, don't let this catch you out,
as mentioned above, data for odd addresses will always be display to the right of the screen
so if in doubt you can double check tht way.

data is needed in the format

address, data,
eg

016384, 000000,
016385, 000000,
016386, 000000,
016387, 000000,
016388, 000000,
016389, 016703,
016390, 016692,
016391, 016441,
016392, 016470,

the first digit in each column will always be 0 (these are 16-bit values so highest possible value is 065535)

files should be named the same as the video name
eg. 0_part1_4000_43ff.txt for 0_part1_4000_43ff.mp4

etc.

be sure to familiarize yourself with the different number graphics, they are all distinct
but be careful not to confuse 1 with 7, or 3 with 8 or 0. the address display is useful for
learning the character shapes.

videos starting with the final one here are a bit darker than the first batch, although still readable

most of these videos cover a 1024 word range (1kwords) although due to recording boundaries some are split smaller.

ideally 2 people should independently do each video, as it makes mistakes more likely to be found


https://og.kervella.org/pacman/0_part1_4000_43ff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (Team Europe)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/0_part2_4400_47ff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (Osso)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/0_part3_4800_4bff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (Osso)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/0_part4_4c00_4fff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (Osso)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/0_part5_5000_53ff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (Team Europe)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/0_part6_5400_55ff.mp4 (512 words) DONE (Team Europe)
(display is a bit darker on ones below)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/1_part1_5600_57ff.mp4 (512 words) DONE (Team Europe)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/1_part2_5800_5bff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (jrideburg)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/1_part3_5c00_5fff.mp4 (1024 words) IN PROGRESS (jrideburg)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/1_part4_6000_63ff.mp4 (1024 words)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/1_part5_6400_67ff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (Team Europe)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/1_part6_6800_6bff.mp4 (1024 words)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/2_part1_6c00_6fff.mp4 (1024 words)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/2_part2_7000_73ff.mp4 (1024 words)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/2_part3_7400_77ff.mp4 (1024 words)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/2_part4_7800_7bff.mp4 (1024 words)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/2_part5_7c00_7fff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (f205v)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/2_part6_8000_81ff.mp4 (512 words) DONE (f205v)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/3_part1_8200_83ff.mp4 (512 words) DONE (jrideburg)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/3_part2_8400_87ff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE 2x (jrideburg and Osso)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/3_part3_8800_8bff.mp4 (1024 words) DONE (jrideburg)
https://og.kervella.org/pacman/3_part4_8c00_8dff.mp4 (512 words) (mostly empty) DONE (Team Europe)

total 19.5kwords of data

useful technique: use VLC on a separate laptop, hit space to pause / unpause video for each value while entering data on PC




If you're interested, please post hereunder which video you are going to tackle, to avoid too many people working on the same video and noone working on others.
Thanks to everyone who'll help to preserve another system in MAME!


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Entire thread
Subject Posted by Posted on
* Typing Monkeys unite! (DONE, thanks everybody!) Osso1 02/13/22 08:40 AM
. * I THINK WE'RE GOOD! Haze  02/24/22 07:55 PM
. * It's Alive! (sort of) Haze  02/25/22 01:15 PM
. * Re: It's Alive! (sort of) (update) Haze  02/25/22 09:08 PM
. * Re: I THINK WE'RE GOOD! f205v  02/25/22 09:39 AM
. * Re: I THINK WE'RE GOOD! jrideburg  02/25/22 05:02 PM
. * from ‘blurst to worst’ gregf  02/25/22 11:56 AM
. * Starting on "1_part3_5c00_5fff" jrideburg  02/23/22 05:50 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! (updated with progress up to 23/02/22) Team Europe  02/23/22 03:54 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! (updated with progress up to 23/02/22) Team Europe  02/23/22 07:59 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! (updated with progress up to 23/02/22) Team Europe  02/24/22 06:40 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! (updated with progress up to 23/02/22) f205v  02/23/22 11:45 AM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! (updated with progress up to 22/02/22) Team Europe  02/22/22 10:38 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! (updated with progress up to 22/02/22) Team Europe  02/23/22 09:55 AM
. * Starting on: 1_part2_5800_5bff jrideburg  02/22/22 04:45 PM
. * Re: Starting on: 1_part2_5800_5bff jrideburg  02/23/22 01:32 AM
. * 0_part4_4c00_4fff done Osso1  02/22/22 04:35 PM
. * 0_part3_4800_4bff done Osso1  02/22/22 09:40 AM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! jrideburg  02/21/22 11:46 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! Haze  02/21/22 05:46 PM
. * 0_part2_4400_47ff.mp4 done and starting 0_part3_4800_4bff.mp4 Osso1  02/21/22 04:36 PM
. * 3_part2_8400_87ff done Osso1  02/18/22 04:26 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! jrideburg  02/17/22 05:07 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! jrideburg  02/19/22 03:47 PM
. * Thank you so far Haze  02/17/22 02:45 AM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! Team Europe  02/16/22 04:06 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! Team Europe  02/16/22 04:07 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! jrideburg  02/15/22 06:35 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! jrideburg  02/13/22 04:42 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! f205v  02/13/22 05:18 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! jrideburg  02/13/22 05:25 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! f205v  02/13/22 01:28 PM
. * Re: Typing Monkeys unite! f205v  02/13/22 05:53 PM

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