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The Guru has a dummy spit, picks up his bat and ball, and goes home!

All chips below here have been acquired by me (Guru) and will be kept until I find a suitable person who can decap them, or Team CAPS0ff contacts me directly and asks me to send the chips they can handle. Note that would probably require additional funding from the emulation community because the decapping work is very time consuming and there are costs involved with consumables like acid etc etc
NOTE! This is a work-in-progress! This list is not complete.
More chips will be added in the future. Thanks for your support!

Update:
As of June 2015 things have changed slightly.
If a chip listed below is loose and/or d0onated junk specifically for decapping purposes, I am more than happy to send it off to be decapped.
In the past the chips listed above were sent off to be decapped and if that chip came from a working PCB then that PCB ended up scrap, especially if the chip was not something common like an EPROM-based microcontroller where a replacement new chip could be bought and programmed with the dump to get the PCB working again. That was my decision to sacrifice those PCBs for the good of MAME and I accepted it.
However, the difference now is if the wanted-to-be-decapped chip is on a working board, especially one that is rare and expensive and/or I care about it, I am no longer going to scrap it. Prices of PCBs have been going up slowly as collectors buy up stocks of rare and collectable games and far too many expensive items were lost in vain. I am no longer prepared to bear the cost of it and add yet another dead board to the already large pile of dead boards that have been sacrificed for the good of MAME.

This effectively means if you want that chip to decap it you will need to buy the working PCB from me at current market prices.
Items marked with (*) apply to the above statement.
Also note that most PCBs are already listed on my For Sale page anyway, so they are for sale to anyone, regardless of whether it has a chip on it of interest or not. Meaning if you want that PCB for any reason, you should just buy it like everyone else does.

* Dear Guru,

I paid for the working Rainbow Islands PCB and the working Rainbow Islands Extra PCBs that you are withholding from CAPSoff.

They were sent to you by me as a donation for the Decapping Project.

The required decaps are my gift to the emulation community, but also for because of my affiliation and in thanks to two rainbow girls.

Please forward my working Taito Rainbow Islands Extra PCB on to the MAME Decapping team.

I paid for it, it's mine, and you never had my permission to sell it and keep the funds.

It was sent to you as a donation to MAME, and to get decapped into the MAME binaries.

Regards,

Tingoes.

Edited by Speakeasy (03/04/19 04:20 PM)