> The people with access to the correct sample data are all employed by or under > contract to Sega, and Sega owns copyright on the data. Do you see the issue yet?
Chances are he is already retired or working at another company (nowadays Sega isn't as big as twenty years ago, they are more like a skeleton like Atari) and we are talking about a game that has been emulated for so long that no Sega executive will bat an eye if a rom inside the zip for outrun changes crc/sha1 values.