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we do need to work out what priorities are with such things, personally I'd say any
MCUs containing important game data that can't accurately be represented without the
MCU code should be the key ones, and as the Toaplan ones contain all the music
sequence data (that you would struggle to reconstruct 1:1 from just hearing the
samples or even probing the commands sent to the YM) those count.
unfortunately previous decapping efforts, too many chips that weren't REALLY needed
got sent, chips that when decapped told us absolutely nothing we didn't know, while
ones that were critical to getting games running properly were left untouched. we do
need to avoid a repeat of that ;-)
It would be interesting to hear your views on what ones you think should be top of the list
to have their MCU's read out and offer the most chance of success..??? Certainly one other
game i know would benefit from this is Tatakae Big Fighter
Now i must admit im one of those that use the samples for the toaplan games and im happy
with how they sound taking the few sound although incorrect samples is better than no sound
but i also think that if possible preserving the True proper sound code in MAME is the
favoured option before that option becomes impossible but i understand it wont be easy or
happen any time soon
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