I believe it was also done for higan (bsnes) in order to support enhancement chipped games: the enhancement chips had to be collected, decapped, and decoded in order to correctly (= fully accurately, rather than approximately via hacks to try and fit observations) run the game dumps. I think at least part of the process was documented at the time.
I don't know if all the enhancement chips were collected and decoded, as IIRC a pair of them are literally used for a single japanese-only game.
Although for IP reasons the enhancement chip firmwares can't be distributed with higan, so you have to "dump them yourself".
bsnes' creator collected all the NTSC cartridges, I believe (USA and Japan, even the rare ones that were Japan-only special editions) but I don't think they managed to get a full PAL set.
All the enhancement chips used in officially licensed games were collected, decapped, and dumped via an electron microscope. Yes, even the ones only used by a single Shougi game each. :)
> Wayne Beckett, founder of Hong-Kong-based Datapower Development, said Near, whose full name was David Kirk Ginder, was an employee and confirmed Ginder's death to USA TODAY.
I sincerely hope there's hope for it. Even so, such behavior towards an individual who brought nothing but joy to a common shared passion of many is beyond sad and evil.
Byuu tried to extort the owner of kiwifarms and "killed" himself when the owner refused. I encourage you to read Byuu's thread yourself instead of news articles that drastically misrepresent what happened.
not documentation you'd like.. I can only had a sheet, at first excel and then google sheets, which I made to make it easy for me to track it all. I did travel a lot due to business etc and over time it all fell into place. Here's what they look like stored now, waiting for a move soon and for a more permanent setting: https://twitter.com/Keyframe/status/1550975562742644736?t=0N...
I'm also close to finishing N64 and maybe halfway there for NES (which I have no illusions on completing ever).
