> > Did Taito lose the source code for Rainbow Islands as well as Bubble Bobble?
> > I have a hunch that Taito hacked around the C-chip and MCU protection in a similar
> fashion
> > to how MAME used to. If they couldn't properly archive the source code to Bubble
> Bobble, I
> > don't have faith that they kept complete code for their protection chips. I am sure
> someone
> > else before you had already pointed out that the official compilation versions of
> Operation
> > Wolf had similar inaccuracies to the old MCU simulation/hacks in MAME
>
> A lot of the past products weren't archived. iirc someone had posted an old article
> link here from around 2005 or 2006 in which it mentioned how Sega didn't save code
> from games that were protected with either MC-8123, or FD 1089 or FD 1094 cpus in
> which they would eventually no longer work. The type of stuff that would put fear in
> Sega fans back then. Fortunately many of the titles (excluding alternate region
> versions still not yet preserved) are now preserved.
>
>
I'm actually more concerned about the non-mainstream stuff.
We have a dump of Sega's Pontoon, including the encrypted CPU, but from what I can tell that was just one part of another multi-board linked setup like the Royal Ascott games etc.
The other parts aren't dumped. We've never seen another board for the display unit that was dumped.
How many other Sega developed gambling games used similar tech, how many are dead and lost forever?
We've still not got any of the Sega gambling games from the 80/90s that used multi-board satellite-like setups emulated, we don't know of any places that still have working machines.
The 'Play 2000' game on cloned Gaelco hardware is only the latest example of this, we've managed to source at least 2 boards of every other Gaelco hardware game using a DS5002FP except that one. Are they destined to just be lost forever?
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