MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Toaplan Decapping

Look, there are a whole lot of problems with your expectations.

First of all £2,000 is not a large amount in the scheme of things. Plenty of people have contributed more than that to secure exotic items. Throwing around “£2,000” really isn’t going to get anyone excited.

Secondly, decapping usually ends up destroying the chips. A cash offer doesn’t translate to finding a person in possession of the board(s) chip(s) you want decapped prepared to have their hardware destroyed.

Thirdly, there’s no guarantee that we would actually recover data from the Toaplan sound chips by decapping them. It’s possible that decapping the chips could result in them being destroyed only for us to find out that we should have done it differently, or even for us to realise that we don’t have the ability to recover data at all. Would you want to take that risk if it was your board?

Fourthly, the Dr Decapitator saga left a very bad taste in everyone’s mouths. He promised the world, but ended up destroying a number of chips for very poor results. Then he sold his company, lost or stole the remaining chips that had been sent to him, and stopped responding to us. This has made people are rather wary of promises.

So really, you need to adjust your expectations. Your offer really wasn’t as exciting as you seem to think it should have been, and there’s no way we could promise what you want delivered for it.