MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Taito Balloon Bomber

>>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.

>Sega has unencrypted versions for many of their battery games archived as that's what they
>used for repairs when the battery module stock was depleted.

That was probably something the journalist/writer didn't bother to really check their facts or at least should have had an editor remind the writer to do more research when that article was written back in 2005/2006. It might have been an article from one of the kid videogame magazines published back then, but I recall someone provided the link....it might have been posted and talked about on old MAME.net web site forum now that I try and remember because old MAME.net forums were still active up until about around 2008 or 2009 or maybe 2010 iirc until Aaron Giles closed them and the site.

The article had a "Nostradamus"-like catastrophic prediction and all the Sega games would 'disappear once and for all'.

You probably would have had a laugh or two had you been able to read it at the time. :-)

>Taito does not have most of its history digitally archived.

That's a bummer knowing it's probably harder to find and preserve any of their 1970s era games.