> The guy who was offering the 'too good to be true' prices on the decapping sold his > company and lost / kept most of the chips that had been sent to him. > > Even when he did some work for MAME, he didn't really do anything that interesting, > or fully handle any chips as exotic as the Toaplan MCUs, just common things, many of > which he broke in the process too, or where the dumps were bad and we had to hand fix > them. > > The guys doing work for the non-arcade side of the project are doing a FAR better job > than any of Guru's contacts ever did, but as they're more honest than Guru they'll > not try and get you to send hundreds of chips they can't deal with. > > > Someone told me the guy that does the decapping for Guru has a broken rig at the > > moment so is therefor unable to do any work > > of that type currantly. > > > > I have infact sent a PM to smitdogg offering if all else fails and he wants to try > a > > decap on the Toaplan PCB the DU curratly have then to contact me and im fully > > prepaired to give a donation towards that task so as far as im concerned thats it > > until > > i hear otherwise
Ok I'm not trying to upset anyone just curious.
I understand the bad taste the doc left and I understand the dev members being gun shy about sending off other chips but I was wondering has anyone else been found that A·Shown any interest in doing it B·Actually has the tooling and knowledge to do it and C· Trustworthy enough to send them chips once they are acquired ? I understand it's not a guarantee that this will work on or for any of the chips, just a couple games I always wondered if it would possibly work on is all. And back in the day the consensus was it might be the only way to get them running.
Just wondering if there maybe hope someday down the road....
Only here to annoy...
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