> > There is currently no way to > > dump its laser disc for mame as mame is in laser disc limbo. > > I detect no small bit of snark coming from Smit here, so I think now would be a good > time for me to post my manifesto on Laserdisc dumping that I wrote last night. > > Here's a link to it, I would strongly suggest reading the whole thing rather than > just TL;DR'ing out after a paragraph and a half. It's informative and explains a lot > of the current issues associated with Laserdisc dumping: > https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Moogl...7/gistfile1.txt > > The long and short of it is that the current methods for dumping Laserdiscs are hacky > and inefficient. People have shown their abilities in the form of being able to dump > even the most brutally-protected MCUs, so what I want is to get people excited for > the possibility that it should be possible to dump Laserdiscs in a similarly > "ultimate accuracy" context. There are capable people associated with MAME, I would > encourage them to stand up and make themselves known.
I can't help with the coding/hardware aspect of this, but if this moves forward I can and will donate to acquiring the hardware!
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