Friday, December 16, 2011

Do you know these versions??

See below some links of some "special" versions of Warzard/Red Earth.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=vhcos4&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=nr0i2g&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=208xyxc&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=21b56z8&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=15n5c8n&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=kcymur&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=6efakn&s=5
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2rw45j4&s=5


The new version of the tool (coming soon) will let you choose the target country code of the ISOS generated. They will work independently of the country code of the cartridge.

@Ian: It will support Warzard country code.
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11 comments:

  1. Ian Court (idc/Team Avalaunch)December 17, 2011 at 12:47 AM

    Woah, nice work! Extremely fast progress, I can barely keep up! ;)

    This will be excellent news for owners of Asia 3rd Strike carts, if the tool can recreate 3S -> 3S ISO but switch only the region. That way, the game can run as a region other than Asia, with full speech samples (no more "huh" instead of "hadouken").

    One of the next things on the list I guess will be fixed ROM checksums in the test menu. :)

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  2. GuruDecember 17, 2011 at 4:59 AM

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  3. GuruDecember 17, 2011 at 5:10 AM

    Looks like you have not found the secret cart
    re-programming menu? That's probably a better
    way to proceed rather than hacking the code
    just re-program a dead cart with the security
    data which will probably be in the flashrom in
    the cart.

    While your method is impressive the main problem remains which is dead security carts. Finding a
    way to solve the dead security cart issue should
    be the main task.... and Capcom have provided it
    with the secret menu. You just need to find a way
    to unlock it.

    Mamedev found the secret menu by forcing a jump
    in the BIOS code (IIRC) but the method to access
    the menu on real hardware was not found.



    Guru
    http://guru.mameworld.info

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  4. La pastilla roja de matrixDecember 17, 2011 at 9:54 AM

    @Guru, I was looking for that routine and I couln't find it. I even discussed the issue with Elsemi. Can you please point to the person who found this menu? If this exists, I commit to find the combinations to get there!

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  5. Ian Court (idc/Team Avalaunch)December 17, 2011 at 2:32 PM

    I'm not even certain that the secret menu is present in the carts for all games is it? I know 3rd Strike has it, but I'm not sure the others do. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.

    SECURITY CASSETTE UTILITY MENU Ver 2.00
    1. FLASH MEMORY
    2. DISK & FILES
    3. GAME BOOT
    4. EXIT
    SELECT = 1P UP or DOWN
    START = 1P SHOT1
    2 . D I S K & F I L E S
    VOLUME LABEL:
    PATH:
    ENTRIES
    EXIT = 1P START & SHOT1
    1. DISK DUMP
    2. EJECT MEDIUM
    3. DEVICE INFORMATION
    1. EXECUTE AS MACRO
    2. WRITE TO FLASH MEMORY
    3. CHECKSUM
    4. FILE DUMP
    5. LOAD AS MS-BITMAP
    1. ONBOARD
    2. SIMM1
    3. SIMM2
    4. SIMM3
    5. SIMM4
    6. SIMM5
    7. SIMM6
    8. SIMM7
    START OFFSET = 00000000
    E X E C U T E M A C R O
    FILENAME SIMM OFFSET RESULT
    CANCEL = 1P START
    D I S K D U M P
    BLOCK = XXXXXXXX BLOCK SIZE = XXXXXXXX
    OFFSET +0 +2 +4 +6 01234567
    DEVELOPER'S SECURITY CASSETTE UTILITY Ver 2.00a
    PROPERTIES
    GAME: UNKNOWN
    CODE:
    STATUS:
    1P START = NEXT MODE
    BOARD
    SIMM1
    SIMM2
    SIMM3
    SIMM4
    SIMM5
    SIMM6
    SIMM7

    FUJITSU
    Intel/SHARP
    HITACHI
    MXIC

    ERASED
    WRITTEN

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  6. La pastilla roja de matrixDecember 17, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    Ehem, ehem....do you mean this???

    hhttp://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=sy448y&s=5
    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=fla6nt&s=5
    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2dtvgjq&s=5

    You can make many things from there, even copy content from one SIMM to another, but definitely, you can't bring back to life a cartridge, as the menu itself is in the cartridge and needs to be decrypted.

    The only way I see to solve this, is by checking if there is real traffic going on between SH2<-->BIOS and SH2<-->CPSIII Board.

    Me lazy, will eventually set the signal analyzer setup one day and bring will hopefully some light to this....

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  7. La pastilla roja de matrixDecember 17, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    Some more pics here....
    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=14j12qt&s=5
    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=116kyuw&s=5
    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9sfi3c&s=5

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  8. La pastilla roja de matrixDecember 17, 2011 at 6:29 PM

    For the curios ones, this is how you go to the "special menu". Notice that the menu code is being run from the BIOS.

    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=29egfw9&s=5

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  9. Ian Court (idc/Team Avalaunch)December 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    To be honest, I doubt that it is possible to re-write the security data on to carts using normal CPS3 hardware. It's likely that specific servicing hardware is required for this task.

    This was certainly the case for CPS2 boards, for example:

    http://ctx.me/l
    http://ctx.me/m

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  10. La pastilla roja de matrixDecember 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    Agree!

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  11. La pastilla roja de matrixDecember 17, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    Another nice pic of the developer's menu, even better than windows :)

    http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dm5u6d&s=5

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