> In un fucking believable news, Haze just discovered that what we thought was a boring
> rom chip version of Lucky Poker (Deco Cassette) that Brian Troha picked up the other
> day is actually Explorer and he has it working.
specifically it's the rom overlay board for Explorer containing 40KB of additional game data that the game requires.
The Explorer cassette was dumped by Al back in the day when the driver was first created, but he didn't have the ROM board and until now it's remained completely elusive thus why the game has been in a non-working state for all these years.
Treasure Island is the only other game using this setup (and Treasure Island was dumped back in the day)
Explorer makes fuller use of the hardware, populating all 10 sockets on the rom board, while Treasure Island only made use of 4, which is why some work was needed in the driver too to support the extra banking.
here's a video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcR4H56ryS0
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