Quote: I hear there are still several QFPs for Raiden II that need to be possibly decapped. Would that help with the emulation or are those gate arrays without ROMs?
Virtually all of Seibu's custom-marked support chips are believed to be gate arrays of some kind. One exception is the T5812 that served as a sound MCU in a few of their 1980s games, but the "decap" of that chip to extract its ROM turned out to be a trivial operation.
Some people have conjectured that SEI1000 contains some internal math tables for trigonometry since the external COP ROM only contains tables for quotients and square roots, but that's the very last thing expected to help emulation with taming that beast.