[vcf-midatlantic] help dumping rom of rare coin-op arcade game

Dan Roganti ragooman at gmail.com
Thu Mar 16 18:49:58 EDT 2017


On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Keep in mind that the ROM may be encrypted, similar to many other arcade
> games.
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​this is the first I've heard about arcade roms being encrypted
​most of the time it was painstaking to decipher the bitmaps for their
background screens, or sprites
because the address boundaries of the bitmap images had to be extracted
from the code
and that's after you disassemble the machine code
Dan



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